AOL's Smarter Child
Steve Glassbrenner | Staff Writer

At night most of those on campus not out partying can be found in their dorms, faces glued to the computer screen. This is nothing new, only now it gets a bit better. Thanks to the good people at ActiveBuddy.Com, you can do so much more with your AOL Instant Messenger. Those of you with merely invisible friends on campus can at least have a cyber buddy now! (No not THAT type of cyber!)

Now you can access news, stocks, weather in your zip code, what movies are playing near you, search the web, find out your horoscope, search an online dictionary and bible, use various utilities, and even play a few basic games (for those times when nobody else wants to play with you either).

Just by adding "SmarterChild" to your buddy list you can get this all and more as it becomes available. Not only is this cool, but you can have "almost conversations" with it too. While applying patented "stress tests" (namely using foul language and asking sexually related questions) our reviewers were left laughing for hours. Smarter Child even holds grudges until you apologize.

SmarterChild is yet another thing to waste your time on while sitting at your computer. As there is nothing else by anybody else to our knowledge to compare it to, SmarterChild gets an A without a doubt.