The Media Age: Brought to You by the US Census Bureau.

InformationWeek, Friday, 12.15.06 - Almost half our lives are spent watching television, listening to the radio and surfing the Web. At least that's how the latest Statistical Abstract has quantified our media hungry society. Yet books still rank high on the consumer scale. According to the Census Bureau, "the book will still interest many U.S. consumers, who will spend $55.5 billion on 3.17 billion books in 2007."

Another wonderful article on our lives by the numbers appears in today's New York Times.