Chocolate does it again, and this time without sugar

Chocolate does it again, and this time without sugar
iTWire – 1 hour ago
By
William Atkins. Chocoholic researchers find that unsweetened cocoa
improves blood vessels, which is a good indicator of a healthy heart.

Dark Chocolate May Lighten the Load on Arteries Forbes
Eat chocolate for good arteries! Zee News
Los Angeles Times – PRESS TV – Reuters – Arizona Daily Star
all 28 news articles ?

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?

Read full article here

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.

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