Shaun's day job

Shaun is software developer at Monetate. Prior to Monetate, he spent 10 years as a newspaper and magazine editor.

Shaun's books

Experimenting With Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid is due out Oct. 1, 2013. It's published by Perigee, a paperback imprint of Penguin Books.

A book based on Correlated.org is due out in summer 2014.

Shaun's side projects

Shaun is the creator of Correlated.org, which reveals surprising correlations between seemingly unrelated things.

He also created Catholics Amassed, a Techmeme-style news and commentary aggregation site featuring more than 50 sources.

Shaun's personal blog is here. Sorry to disappoint you, but it's friends-only.

His wedding site is here. (Be sure to watch the proposal video!)

Some of his old clips are here, including two columns that were written without the letter "e."


A few other (mostly outdated and no longer maintained) side projects:

Alliteration Analyzer lets you "paste a passage and review the results." It uses several algorithms to determine how alliterative a particular text is.

Shaun's Fill-in-the-Blanks Percentage Calculator is hands-down the easiest way to figure out percentages. If you've ever struggled with questions like "What percent larger is A than B?" this is the tool for you.

Take Me Warmer! lets you enter your ZIP code and a desired warmer temperature, and it displays a Google map showing you how far you'd have to travel to reach that warmer temperature.

The Pressbin.com Homeland Reassigner: We're born into our native countries by the luck of the draw. The Homeland Re-Assigner uses world population data to simulate this process. It produces statistically accurate representations of where else you might have ended up.

The Pressbin.com Chord Transposer: Drop in a bunch of chords, then specify which key you'd like to change them to. Very handy for guitar players, but useful for practically any instrument.

IntelliCAPS: Intelligently convert ALL CAPS text to small caps.

Shaun's Word Count Tool allows you to instantly get the word count, character count, and paragraph count of any string.

Shaun's urlencode/urldecode tool allows you to paste in a text string and convert it between normal text and a URL-encoded string.