A video posted on YouTube spoofing a apple ad from 1984 featuring Hillary Clinton as Big Brother seems to herald the end on an age when politicians had control over their message. http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/03/19.5.shtml→ Continue reading “The 1984 Apple/Hillary video heralds an interesting shift in political messaging”
Author: rchapin
Caring for your uncircumcised newborn
Newborn Acne
Is McDonald’s Ad Campaign Going Subliminal?
Someone recently noticed a single frame McDonalds ad inserted into an Iron Chef America episode on the Food Network. The Food Network execs claim that it was a glitch. Interestingly enough Clear Channel Entertainment has started running 1 second radio ads called blinks and the client used to demo the product was McDonalds. It seems plausible that McDonalds might be rolling out a series of subliminal ads. Are you lovin that?
Find New Music For Free: Pandora.com
Pandora.com was created by the Music Genome Project, an interesting project that looks at the "DNA" of music and is able to create relationships between different songs and artists based on the character of the music.
You can use Pandora.com to find new music based on the artists that you already enjoy. Very, very cool.
Here’s the wikipedia entry on the Music Genome Project.→ Continue reading “Find New Music For Free: Pandora.com”
Giving the Gift of Perspective
I’m listening to NPR this morning and hearing about the expensive and extravagant hot children’s gifts this season. Almost reading my mind, Morning Edition plays a commentary that expresses exactly what I was thinking.
Dawn Price worries that we are teaching our children that they are entitled to anything that they want and that there are so many other less fortunate children in the world who are faced with poverty, hunger, war and worse.
Listen to Dawn’s Commentary
Being too thin causes risks of early miscarriage
An interesting study that links low BMIs with miscarriages.
Read the full article.
The AAP Speaks Out About Ads Targeting Children
The AAP (American Association of Pediatrics) released a statement indicating that there are so many advertisements bombarding our children that they fear for their health.
Not mentioned in the article; what does this say about our society and the evolution of consumerism and capitalism? . . . We are now raising a generation that has been bombarded with advertisements and conditioned to be such avid consumers. How will this affect the continuing degradation of our environment and our natural resources?→ Continue reading “The AAP Speaks Out About Ads Targeting Children”
Can TV cause autism in young children?
An article sent to me by Yermo.
http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/10/17/0435250.shtml
→ Continue reading “Can TV cause autism in young children?”
Who should really be apologizing for the fallout of Kerry’s gaff is Democrats
Unbelievable! Horrible! Worst thing that you could have done at this point in the campaign!
Kerry’s botched "joke" this past Monday? Nope. The fact that the Democrats cowered like spineless rats after the NeoCons went on the attack.They misssed their opportunity to take control of the final week in the campaign and remind everyone why they shouldn’t vote for the Republicans:
The completely botched war in Iraq
The Bush administration lying to the country about WMD
The Republican corruption in → Continue reading “Who should really be apologizing for the fallout of Kerry’s gaff is Democrats”