There is a scene in “Boogie Nights” where the luckless ex-porn stars go off to do some drug dealing. The dealer spends a good part of the scene bragging about his mix-tape. It’s not a blunder on the part of the film makers. They really did have mix tapes in the 80s. I am reminded of the film’s ludicrous, vain and downright nasty character every time I read another fawning journalist’s article about the Ipod and How It Has Changed Our Lives. (I particularly like those that wonder philosophically: for the better or the worse?) There’s one in the ever-loyal Gazeta Wyborcza of May 30th. I say ever-loyal because at the behest of the machine’s producers – and in common with 99% of the world’s journalists – they call it an iPod, in flagrant contravention of Polish (and English) orthography. It was written not by journalists, but media researchers, so this is serious business – even if the piece is illustrated by the vain, ludicrous and downright nasty George W. Bush. There’s no real need to describe the rest of the article because anyone over 30 (who is not a journalist) will know it all from first hand experience of the “walkman revolution.”