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As I head out to plant on a perfectly overcast Saturday... Tattooed Geoff Ostling donating his body to art. The Daily Telegraph.

What's lovely here is that instead of flames and doom this leprechaun's tats are a garden. His girth just makes for bigger flowers. There's video at the link.

Now retired history teacher Geoff Ostling, 65, has pledged to donate his skin to the National Gallery in Canberra.

He worked with cult artist eX de Merci over 15 years to tattoo a masterpiece on his body, from neck to ankle, with the theme "All the flowers of a Sydney garden".

FWIW: White House Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/whitehouse

Old folks' tool: Kindle Demographics notes with apparent suprise that the early adopters of Amazon's Kindle reader are not cool young geeks, but geezers.

The resulting data suggests that the largest group of Kindle owners by decade are in their 50s. The next two largest are owners in their 40s at 19.1% and owners in their 60s at 18%, making the total number of Kindle owners between the ages of 40 and 69 an incredible 58.6%. Owners above 70 make up an additional 8.1%, with owners under the age of 40 accounting for just over a third of all Kindle sales.

...The Kindle might also be a popular 60th birthday present--more 60-year-olds reported owning the device than any other age, with 59-year-olds coming in a close second.

It's a no-brainer to me that spending $359 for the Kindle earns you the privilege of spending $9.99 more for every book they offer that you want to read. (The way Joe and I go through books, we'd be broke if it weren't for the libray.) If I were to become so visually or manually disabled that I just couldn't read books any more, I'd welcome this adaptive technology.

David Carnoy at CNet notes that, "the digital reader is easier to handle than regular books for arthritis sufferers. It also helps that you can increase the font size, if you have trouble viewing small print in books. "

Were I wealthy, I might own one simply to read what I want to read right now, without waiting for next-day shipping.

Douglas McIntyre at MSN Money piles on:

An issue of The Reader's Digest for Kindle costs only $1.25, but that is a publication for older people, as are most of the Kindle magazines which include old people favorites Forbes, The Atlantic, and US News. It is interesting that Teen People is not one of the magazine titles being offered for Kindle.

What marketers still don't talk about is that old people with money are the largest consumers of a number of things besides multivitamins and sweaters. According to Forbes, the average age of the people who buy the extremely expensive and fast Porsche 911 is 51 years old. Their median annual income is $390,000.

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