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...held in Clinton's office.) It was a key moment in the charmed life of this amusing study of the sexual character of zodiac signs. Sextrology began with a modest printing of 10,000 copies in the U.S. in January, and has since grown into a word-of-mouth phenomenon, with six printings and total sales of almost 50,000 copies. Since the book's European launch during the summer, international sales have reached some 10,000 copies, mostly in Britain; Starsky and Cox are in discussion with the BBC about developing a companion TV series. "Sextrology tells you everything...
...news reader. Still, mass-market adoption of RSS will probably depend on Microsoft incorporating a news reader into its next Internet Explorer or Outlook e-mail program. So far, the company has given no indication of any such plans. But if RSS numbers continue to grow, the phenomenon will become too big for Microsoft to ignore. And that could give bloggers like Robert Andrews as large a potential audience...
After several years of virtually unrestricted music file-sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) took serious and direct measures last spring to curb the controversial downloading phenomenon. The association filed hundreds of lawsuits against online music-traders, inciting fear amongst millions of KaZaA users and causing havoc amongst the thousands of guilt-free, blissfully oblivious downloaders. Now, under increased pressure from movie studios, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced that it will take similar steps to stem the tide of illegal movie downloads...
...cannot be persuaded simply through better communication or repackaged Democratic policies from the 1990’s (or before). When people hear a new idea that relies upon an acknowledgement of a changing world, however, they are more receptive to the message being thrown their way. In part, this phenomenon is responsible for much of the radicalism of the Bush Administration; by claiming that 9/11 changed everything, they were able to do things that would have been politically impossible before that tragic day, making the argument that “now things were different...
Right now video games are the world's largest cult phenomenon. Those who play them (fully half of all Americans ages 6 and up) love them, and those who don't play them regard them with virulent distaste. It's time that changed. Those of you in the latter group, if you have any curiosity about the future of your own culture, and if you haven't already put down this magazine in favor of Flaubert or croquet or whatever, take a look at three new video games that expand our notions of what a video game...