Slate has a fascinating new project

Is Facebook the next Google?
Paul Boutin

Can Google kill PowerPoint?
Paul Boutin

The Saletan column has links to pictures of the four-armed four-legged girl: do I want to look?

no

:(

Thank you.

Slate has been kinda boring lately, and I'm not sure why -- too much nit-picky meaningless campaign coverage?

I haven't even been able to work up any enthusiasm for getting into the Alex Ross music dialogue this week!

Is Facebook the next Google?
Paul Boutin

Can Google kill PowerPoint?
Paul Boutin

-- and what, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 6:18 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

he should just write an article called can facebook kill powerpoint

Slate has been kinda boring lately, and I'm not sure why -- too much nit-picky meaningless campaign coverage?

-- nabisco, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 6:31 PM (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

like the "where are the campaigners campaigning" thing?

the gordon lish article last week was pretty funn-ay

(A certain Slate staffer who will go unnamed—oh, hell, it was Tim Noah—took three Ambien by mistake one morning a few years ago instead of his regular morning meds. Driving his two kids to elementary school, he sideswiped several cars before coming to a restful halt. Noah's kids tried to wake him, and when that didn't work, they seized his cell phone and called their mom to rescue them.)

We need an article: Why Won't Powerpoint Just Die, Already?

fukk slate imo

Let's not forget the 1996 Atlanta mascot, known variously as "Whatzit," "Whatizhee," or the shortened "Izzy." To this day, I remain unsure what exactly Izzy was meant to embody. The Journal recalls that he was "derided as everything from a 'blue slug' to a 'sperm in sneakers.' " (Izzy also represented perhaps the worst Olympics since Munich. The Atlanta games featured both a terrorist attack and a wave of nauseating Nike/Coke/America triumphalism and were held in a backwater of a town smaller than, I'm not kidding, at least 25 Chinese cities you've never even heard of.)

Here are the last 10 Summer Olympic host cities, ranked by population of urban agglomeration:

1. Los Angeles 12.5m
2. Beijing 11.1m
3. Moscow 10.5m
4. Seoul 9.8m
5. Barcelona 4.9m
6. Atlanta 4.5m
7. Sydney 4.3m
8. Montreal 3.7m
9. Athens 3.2m
10. Munich 2.3m

Actually, not all of those are urban agglomerations, apparently, but the Atlanta agglomeration is definitely bigger than those of Sydney, Athens, and Munich (not sure about Montreal).

Why do I keep looking at the Fray when it continues to upset me?

a backwater of a town

wow srsly fuck this guy

when did lex start writing for slate

lex writes better than most of the people at slate

fair enough, just a joek re: condescension

we should do a "guest cartoonist" thing where the ILX massive writes Slate for a week and the Slate staff post to ILX

Dear Prudence,
I have done something so vile that I can't stand to look at myself in the mirror. I have a younger sister who is stunningly beautiful, while I'm rather plain by comparison. Growing up, my boyfriends all lost interest in me once they set eyes on her. When I was dating the man who is now my husband, I was afraid that the same thing would happen. As a preventative measure, before he even met her, I told him that she slept around a lot and as a consequence had contracted HIV. Needless to say, he never showed any interest in her. Several years and two kids later, my husband is always asking about her health. She's even asked me why my husband always seems so concerned about how she's doing. He's the sensitive type, and I know that he worries about her. I want to come clean, but how can I explain such a horrible lie?

—Sister Is Healthy As a Horse

Threesome amiright?

Dear Prudence,
I am a married man in my 30s, and I have known for some time now that I am quite well-endowed. Though my past girlfriends and wife have been enthusiastic about it, my problem is with how my wife treats this personal information. She discusses my size quite openly with her friends, which I understand is part of her "girl talk." However, I recently found out that she told a female acquaintance whom she'd met for the first time! I am a fairly introverted person, and knowing that our friends have this information affects my social interaction with them. I have brought this issue up with her and asked her to tone it down, but her argument is that she is sharing something positive about me, and therefore it causes no harm. My wife and I have an otherwise stable and loving marriage, and I do not want this issue to be a bone of contention. How can I get my wife to stop broadcasting this? Or should I just accept it?

—Zipped Up

who is the worse annoying gasbag:

fred kaplan
william saletan