Lex Friedman blogs here.

Lex Friedman is Macworld's Staff Writer. He formerly wrote for TidBITS and worked as the Senior Director of Product & Community at Demand Media. Views expressed here are, unsurprisingly, his own.

He co-founded The Daily Plate.

His first book, based on his website The Snuggie Sutra, is available now.

Lex also tweets with some regularity.

Why NFL Overtime sucks, and how to fix it

Link: Why NFL Overtime sucks, and how to fix it

Yes! The NFL decides non-playoff overtimes with sudden death that starts with a coin toss. The team that wins the coin toss wins the game more than 70% of the time.

Slate explains fairer ways we could decide those games.

Posted on January 29th, 2009