Elizabeth November 6th, 2007

I’m supposed to be working on a recording today, so this will be short! Just wanted to share a few interesting links that I’ve come across.

Fridgewatcher – Take a peek at the contents of other peoples’ fridges, and submit your own photo. Particularly interesting is the option to view fridges from a particular country, and see how other people eat.

It made me go in search of the Time photoessay I saw a while ago, called What the World Eats. Visit the article to view families from all over the world, plus their weekly groceries and budget. It’s incredible to see the way that one family can waste so much of their budget on empty calories, and how little it costs for a poor family to survive.

More quick links:

I am both enthralled and disgusted by this 24kt gold & diamond Mac.

Have you ever wished that birds would flock to you in the park, and start nibbling at your feet? Of course you have.

And lastly…

Media Watch is claiming that Ten and Roving Enterprises are responsible for broadcasting subliminal advertising during the coverage of this year’s ARIA awards. While the jury is out on whether subliminal advertising is even valid, it would appear that they have breached the industry Code of Practice by choosing to insert logos into their show that displayed at 1/25th of a second.

Personally, I think they’ll have a hard time proving that Ten was deliberately trying to trick us into dipping our KFC wings in a tub of Olay. I didn’t notice the ads on the night, and even when I was looking for them in the video below I rarely spotted more than a quick burst of light.

Of course, that’s sort of the point – if Media Watch’s claims are true, then we were never supposed to spot them. There’s something really sneaky about this issue, I think.

• Cool stuff , External Sites , Videos
• Comments(0)