Mark Wieczorek

The Gender Genie is an online tool, based on an algorithm, based on a study, that claims to be able to tell whether or not you’re male or female based on just your language patterns. Paste some text into The Gender Genie, click submit and it will tell you (with 80% accuracy) whether or not you’re a man or a woman.

I’ve seen similar question & answer tests that guessed whether or not you were male or female (but it’s unfortunately lost now to the vast sea of sites I visited before I del.icio.us existed).

Play with: The Gender Genie

You’ve heard This Ameican Life, right? The story of The Greatest Phone Mail Message Of All Time. Just pretend you have so you can feel cultured. It was on NPR after all and you can go back and listen to it later and use it to intimidate your less cultured friends. Plus, it’s effing hilarious.

Anyway, if you want to learn how to create pieces of narrative gold like that, why not go to the source? Ira Glass tells you how to produce great stories.

Read: Forty - Business Blog - Ira Glass on Telling Stories