Thanks for posting this. Crichton was my favourite author when I was a young boy (I still remember how engrossing <i>Sphere</i> was for me) and to this day I had no idea that he tried his hand at programming.
Michael Crichton once intentionally plagiarized George Orwell while at Harvard and got a B-<p><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/george-orwell-got-a-b-at-harvard.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/george-orwell-got-a-b-at-...</a>
If you want to find out more about him read his book Travels, is a very interesting take on an autobiography type novel. Its one of my favourites but I don't know anyone else who's read it.
I remember when someone posted here their javascript project demonstrating how you could make ads and modals pop up when the user's mouse left the page. There were a lot of comments about the potential for abuse, but ultimately it was decided that like all science it could not be inherently evil.<p>Still, I sometimes wonder if they feel any remorse.