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.
Jonathan Rugman on Channel 4 News, describing the appointment of Tony Snow as the new White House press secretary as like “re-arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic” which amused me. That is all.
Posted on Wednesday 26th April 2006 in Blog tagged humour, Politics, TV, with no comments.
I have just watched the very interesting, funny, and thought provoking, “Robert Newman’s History of Oil” on More4.
Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years – but rather than adhering to history, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all the commotion.
Robert argues, as has been [...]
Posted on Wednesday 12th April 2006 in Blog tagged Engineering, environmental, humour, oil, Politics, technology, TV, with one comment.
One big problem with the current trend of device convergence is that if that one device fails, then so do all of your devices! This means that device failure has a bigger impact, and this impact will increase with the number of functions the device replaces.
Two examples of this. Firstly, I use my phone [...]
Posted on Saturday 18th March 2006 in Blog, Computers tagged internet, mac OS X, Music, technology, TV, with one comment.
Or “How fortunate am I?”
I’ve just watched “The Man Who Slept for 19 Years” on Channel 4, which gives a scary insight into the fragility of the human brain. Although at the same time showing how resiliant the human body is, that someone could wake from a coma after 19 years, and regain the power [...]
Posted on Monday 31st January 2005 in Blog tagged health, TV, with no comments.
