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- 11/19/10
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The other day I noticed that a box of granola bars, the kind we always buy, mentioned that they now have fewer calories. I thought that was cool. But then I compared the new box to the old and saw how they had lowered the calories—they had simply made the granola bars 10% smaller. I guess they technically didn’t lie…
Deeds Done in Darkness - WORLD writes about Sayed Mossa, a Christian who has been imprisoned for his faith in Afghanistan.
Christian Audio Twice Yearly Sale - ChristianAudio is having their twice yearly sale during which almost every item in their store is on sale at $7.49.
The Six-Second Kiss - Jani Ortlund with a word for the wives: “What can six seconds do for you? Woman to woman, let me encourage you that just six seconds a day can help safeguard your marriage.”
Class Warfare - Here’s a history of economy class and first class on airplanes. In all my traveling I’ve never once experienced anything but economy. Some day I’ll get the lucky upgrade.
Using the Seven Deadly Sins - Smashing Magazine, an online magazine for web designers, has an interesting article here in which they encourage designers to use the seven deadly sins to turn visitors into customers. I see this as a bit of a statement on our human nature.
The iPhone I Can’t Keep in My Pants - I am coming across a lot of articles like this one in which Dave Pell writes about the Giants’ World Series parade: “Along with thousands of others — including the players themselves — I captured some digital snapshots, but missed the moment. We walk around with what seems like infinite access in our pockets and yet we often experience our lives through two-inch screens.”
Cell Phones and Cancer - And while we’re on the subject of cell phones, the Times writes about how little we really know about the relation between cell phones and cancer. For example, it’s interesting to note that “the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding the phone against your head or body into the fine print of the little slip that you toss aside when unpacking your phone.”
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Comments (4)
I hate cell phones for the reasons mentioned in the cancer article. The lack of info is galling, and when I’ve talked with cell phone salespeople, most have no idea what a SAR rating is, much less what the rating may be for a particular phone.
Even worse, the phones aimed at kids often have the worst SAR ratings on the market. I refuse to buy my kid a phone.
A study done in Sweden a few years ago noted a massive increase in the brain cancer rates among rural cell phone users. What most cell phone makers won’t tell you is that a drop in bars/signal means your cell phone has to pump out exponentially more power to reach a cell tower. Lesson: NEVER use a cell phone to place a call unless you have maximum signal strength to begin with. The fewer bars you see, the more likely you’re frying your head if you place a call.
My mother, who was NOT a cell phone user, died of brain cancer. After the discovery of her tumor, the first question she was asked by the neurologist (who is world renowned) was “On which side of your head do you hold your cell phone?” The fact that the question was even asked should tell everyone something about the safety of the darned things.
My wife MUST have a cell phone—one never knows when one’s car might break down on the side of a rural road in West Virginia, where roving bands of lust-crazed rednecks lie in wait for the cars of women traveling alone to sputter and die. It’s sort of the female equivalent of Deliverance, I guess. I wonder how women made it through life before cell phones. These phones have been successfully marketed as a safety device. How ironic would it be if continued use of one is what eventually kills you.
I’d take my chances with the roving bands of rednecks.
While it may be a testament to our consumeristic lifestyle and the wealth we enjoy in the West, few things bug me more than this increasing reduction of the portion sizes of consumables. That companies hide their price increases behind fractional size reductions makes me livid. It really is a form of lying. I started boycotting those companies that did this until it got to the point that I had no companies left from which to buy items. The mantra of “well, everyone’s doing it” is alive and well in the boardrooms and marketing offices of these companies. They should all be ashamed.
PS - I want my half gallon of ice cream back.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc . . .
While shopping, I often wonder when precisely did coffee start selling in 12 oz sizes instead of a pound?