Interesting Links for 14-01-2013

• If your CEO has a kid, better hope it's a girl.
  (tags: children pay business )
• Toy Story, recreated live action style.
  (tags: Pixar movies video )
• How high wages lead to innovation
  (tags: innovation wages technology )
• A petition for Edinburgh council to have a better mechabnism for whistleblowing.
  (tags: edinburgh scotland petition )
• In the 1950s Quaker sold Canadian land by the inch.
  (tags: canada marketing history )
• What programming language should I learn first?
  (tags: programming computers coding )
• Play.com shuts down (only really ever existed because of a Jersey tax loophole.)
  (tags: business internet tax )
• Analysing password security in Deus Ex
  (tags: games passwords )

If you want to sell, write for children.

The top selling Sci-Fi novel last year would place outside the top ten of Mystery novels.

The top selling Mystery novel would place eight on a list of Romance novels.

Excluding the 50 Shades novels, the top selling Romance novel would place tenth on the list of Children's fiction.

All figures from here, which I found via james_nicoll