Older teenage girls and younger women are more likely to be on the internet than males in their age group.
NPR discussion of new Pew study of internet use..
Day: January 3, 2006
Top Records of 2005
Rolling Stone lists its top 50 records of 2005. Here’s their top 10:
1. Kanye West, Late Registration
2. The Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang
3. White Stripes, Get Behind Me Satan
4. Fiona Apple, Extraordinary Machine
5. Bruce Springsteen, Devils and Dust
6. My Morning Jacket, Z
7. Beck, Guero
8. Bright Eyes, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning
9. Sufjan Stevens, Illinois
10. 50 Cent, The Massacre
Traffic
34,481 visits to NewMexiKen from 21,097 different IP addresses in December. 104,268 visits total for October, November and December.
For the year 2005, just more than 420,000 visits.
The 49,974 visits last April are still the most in one month.
Stupidest line of the day, so far
“When there are three women for every two men graduating from college, whom will the third woman marry?”
John Tierney beginning today’s column, Male Pride and Female Prejudice, in the New York Times.
How to Order Wine
Without Looking Like an Asshole from Waiter Rant. Some of the recommendations:
2. Don’t ask, “What’s cheap?”
6. Remember the mark up — Most establishments mark up the price of a bottle from 1 ½ to 5 times the wholesale price. … Since you’re paying so much I recommend getting something you can’t get at the gas station….
9. DO NOT SMELL THE CORK!
10. DON’T SMELL THE PLASTIC CORK EITHER!
11. … But SWIRL the wine! Don’t spin it like you’re trying to separate U-235 in a centrifuge machine!
25. Merlot is a perfectly good wine. Don’t believe all that “Sideways” crap. God I hate that movie!
26. It’s wine, not the Blood of Christ. Don’t worship it. Enjoy it.
It’s an informative and amusing post.
Back to the old…
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, author of Playing With Boys and The Dirty Girls Social Club, has a blog, La Queen Sucia. (It was she who authored the review of The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls, mentioned here a few weeks back.)
During the past couple of weeks, Ms. Valdes-Rodriguez has included commentary on her personal social life beginning with The Dating Game (December 21), followed by Happy Things (December 29) and yesterday, Back to the old…drawing board.” One wishes Ms. Valdes-Rodriguez more satisfying endings, but these three posts together struck NewMexiKen as a fascinating short story in real time.
Valdes-Rodriguez’s newest novel, Make Him Look Good, will be published in April.
Paging the French judge
Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, Canada’s gold-medal figure-skating tandem, exchanged wedding vows in Banff last Friday.
The nuptials took an unexpected twist, however, when the IOC awarded an identical pair of gold rings to the Russian skaters.
Best line of the day, so far
“Cellphones are what America has substituted for parenting.”
Joel Achenbach, who has more in his “the day after…The Day After The Day After New Year’s Eve” entry.
State Quarters for 2006
Nevada
Nebraska
Colorado
North Dakota
South Dakota
Source: The 50 State Quarters Program of the United States Mint