Michael Sloan
Michael Sloan
Recent Stories
Sloan: The Game, Google edition
Gridiron glory is so last century. Today, the real battlefield is Google, and the weapon is autocomplete, which attempts to predict your search by proposing commonly used terms to complete your query. The cooler the school, the more flattering the autocomplete. Below, real Harvard and Yale-themed searches face off is one for the ages. The school with the better autocomplete gets the points. The typed-in portions are in bold; Google took over from there.
Joan Baez reflects on prose, lyrics
Music
In the 1960s, Joan Baez was one of the United States' most acclaimed interpretive folk singers. Now, 35 years later, Baez's career is going strong. Playing this weekend at the Palace Theater, her soulful ballads will likely steal the hearts of New...