It bombards them with adverts, seduces them with merchandise – and then fills them with additives. In an exclusive extract from his explosive new book, Eric Schlosser reveals how the fast-food industry exploits its key audience – the very young
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Stuff the kids
Posted on Wednesday 26th April 2006 in Blog tagged adverts, books, junk-food, Links, TV, with no comments.
Mmmmmm, I’ve just eaten about half a bar of Lindt’s new Dark Chocolate with Hazelnut, and it is absolutely delicious! The chocolate is dark and rich, without being overly bitter like the 70 or 85% cocoa chocolate is. Contained within this are roasted hazelnuts, and flakes of caramelised hazelnut (not sure quite how they do [...]
Posted on Wednesday 1st June 2005 in Blog tagged adverts, chocolate, food, with no comments.
I just received an adblock update from Mike over at everythingisnt.com, that made me think that perhaps there are people who still don’t know about this easy, effective, and free technique to block adverts.
The method is simple, use the hosts file to trick your computer into thinking the advert servers linked in web-pages are actually [...]
Posted on Tuesday 17th May 2005 in Blog tagged adverts, Computers, hack, internet, Links, mac OS X, spam, Windows, with no comments.
Another form of annoying advertising blocked thanks to the excelent Adblock extension for Mozilla Firefox.
IntelliTXT appears to be a per website script, that adds links into the page using DHTML popups. Not a huge problem, but annoying all the same as the script reformates the page puting horrible green links everywhere. More info on this [...]
Posted on Thursday 3rd March 2005 in Blog tagged adverts, Computers, internet, mozilla, spam, with one comment.
