December 2008
3 posts
Japan is still an alien planet:
Teens who skip breakfast as middle school students tend to have sex at an earlier age than those who start the day with a proper meal, a government-backed Japanese medical researcher said on Friday… The survey, intended to study how to reduce unwanted pregnancies, also showed the average age of first-time sex was lower for those who found their mother...
I’m trying to figure what it means, that a music playback device (the iPod) is (and has been) a bigger cultural phenomenon than any music or musician for a few years now. What would McLuhan make of it?
Scott Douglas has a kind of confusing post on the impact of file sharing on novelists, specifically w/rt ebooks on iTunes.
He starts out talking about author royalties. Authors are definitely having difficulty with royalties on the Kindle, because Amazon demands absurdly discounted rates. Authors were already getting paid crap for physical books getting sold through Amazon, the Kindle is even...