The Myth Of Salads: Why Why Fast Food Salads Aren't Necessarily Going To Help You Lose Weight - Consumerist

Ohhh, yes the wonders of marketing. The assumption that a salad is more healthy than a fatty burger. Hmmm I love burgers. I always laugh when I see people scarfing away on a salad at a fast food chain and wondering why the pounds aren't peeling away. Some interesting comparisons. To note that just the burgers where compared and not the fries and pop that usually comes with a meal.
I am always on the look out for a healthier options when eating at fast food. Since I do allot of eating at fast food restraints while on the run, I try to find the best option when I can. I usually end up not doing to well though...


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COLOURlovers :: Blog / Following Nintendo through the Ages (and Colors)

Every time I hear ?the adults? of my family talk about video games, which is usually after one of my cousins and I mention something, they seem to always loop back to, ?Wow, remember pong? We used to play that for hours.? And while controllers have seemingly become just more complicated and the games just the same, what?s been interesting to watch is the evolution of graphics over gameplay, specifically with Nintendo, the longest running console manufacturer.

A quick look at Nintendo, and it's progression of color palettes and display of available colors through the years. I tad bit more in-depth coverage of color palettes on system would be an interesting read. Such as Zelda on NES and other rememberable games. Similar to interesting color combinations in Castlevania I'm playing on the Wii on the VC. Good times.

Everybody Wants To Direct: Nintendo Wants Your Movies - Kotaku

Video game companies want you to make short films. First Microsoft calls for an original TV pilot. Then Midway called forth our inner Woo. Now Nintendo announces their Short Cuts Showcase, which challenges budding directors to create a short film with a Nintendo theme, with the top three entries being premiered at Rockefeller Center's annual summer film showcase.

To bad I don't have a video camera. I could make a video of April and I's drunken rants on video games and the Wii (thats not all we rant about). Splice em all together in some new wave style of quick cuts, maybe through some vector art over it, and submit the video. Maybe it could win, since Nintendo is trying to capture the adult audience with the Wii, or at least they should be trying to do so.

Cabinet Magazine Online - A Short History of the Shadow: An Interview With

Victor I. Stoichita, Professor of the History of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, is the author of A Short History of the Shadow (Reaktion, 1997). In exploring the writings of Plato, Pliny, Leonardo, and Piaget, Stoichita explains how the shadow has always been integral to theories of art and knowledge, and investigates the complex psychological meanings we project into shadows. Christopher Turner spoke to him by phone.

Kinda cheesy kind of interesting. As I have wondered the same thing while studying art. A further study of shadow and perspective would be a more interesting aspect to approach, and how each have been constructed and then deconstructed in art. And any book that has to punk Duchamp and Warhol, isn't much of an Art History book to me. I guess I can't make such a claim until reading the final chapter.