Finally whittled down all of your suggestions for the best iPhone apps for kids.
iPhone Moms
November 30, 2009
New article on Slate today about the iPhone as the ultimate kid pacification device.
Since writing the article, I’ve had to delete Slotz Racer off my phone due to it’s mind-control over both me and my son.
Sent Mail
November 24, 2009
Does your e-mail reveal how productive you are?
This is an article I wrote about Cataphora, a company of mathematicians and linguists that sifts through e-mail, IMs, and the office communications structure to model your behavior as an employee. This won’t be the last you hear of them.
Moneygolf
November 19, 2009
Would you rather have a magic driver that added 20 yards to your drive, or a magic driver that hit your drives 20% straighter? These are the questions I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. I’m trying to expand on this article:
Moneygolf: What can stats tells us about what it takes to win on the links?
Ol’ Dirty Bastard
November 18, 2009
Another one from the vault: I wrote about my friend Russell Jones, who lives in Brooklyn and happened to share the same name as the Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
Read “Not Dirty.”
Sarah Palin is a locavore
November 17, 2009
Robert Altman
November 17, 2009
Back in 2004, I wrote a Talk story about Robert Altman, where he chats with Robert Redford about Fellini. I thought of this recently when I watched Redford’s (surprisingly good) Downhill Racer.
Fun with Google Suggest
November 17, 2009
From all across this great nation (and Canada), entries arrived in my inbox for Slate‘s Google Suggest contest. The question at hand: What’s the best example of “less intelligent” Google query contrasted with a “more intelligent” Google query?
Sorting through the contenders led to more than a few instances of intellectual whiplash. One moment, I’d be considering a stemwinder such as “Why is it that only part of the energy stored in one trophic level is passed on to the next level?” and the next moment, I’d be learning about “cake farts.”
Without further descent into fetishes, let’s go to the top five.
Michael Agger 