Category Archives: News

What Your Snack Food Says About You

    As mentioned in an article in The Guardian [found via Byzantium’s Shores via I Love Everything], Alan R Hirsch, a doctor at the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, has studied almost 20,000 people over the last … Continue reading

Posted in Food, Links, News | Leave a comment

Today in Food (2004/01/12)

    Customers at an area Burger King drive-thru are being told “You don’t need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead.” This is not coming from the employees however, but according to WDIV, from some kids … Continue reading

Posted in Diet, Food, News | Leave a comment

Today in Food (2004/01/08)

    An old story, but one I only just saw. Charles R Grady, SFG’s “Fathead of the Week”, has sued Frito-Lay on the grounds that Doritos damage his throat.    Perhaps he should try chewing first.    The suit … Continue reading

Posted in Diet, Food, News | 1 Comment

Today in Food (2004/01/07)

    Two stories today, seeing as I was remiss on Sunday for not pointing out that Detroit is now listed as the fattest city in the country. I’ve made note of this list before, and in the last couple … Continue reading

Posted in Food, News | Leave a comment

Opt Out, Out In, Opt This

    The CAN SPAM act has been law since Thursday, and it’s obvious our Congress has done its usual bang-up job of lawmaking. Back last year I would get around three hundred e-mails a day, maybe twenty of which … Continue reading

Posted in News, Tech | Leave a comment

Directing Agrees with Peter Jackson

    A screen grab from Australia’s Daily Telegraph, from Thursday.The award winning director, following his sex change

Posted in Movies, News | Leave a comment

Woe’s the Beef

    It’s a sad week for short fat guys. The burgers we love and rely on have turned against us. After reading Fast Food Nation I’m doubtful the FDA and USDA has the effectiveness anymore to track or combat … Continue reading

Posted in Food, Links, News | Leave a comment

I’m Being Criminalized

Obligatory photo of a faceless fat person(Courtesy of AOL)     According to an AP article today, “With the U.S. Surgeon General calling obesity an epidemic, legislators nationwide […] have considered scores of bills this year that would, among other … Continue reading

Posted in Food, Links, News | Leave a comment

A Large Reverberating Smacking Sound

    Huzzah, at last. A three-judge Appeals Court panel today gave the whiny crybabies at the RIAA “a long awaited kick to the groin in its pursuit of file swappers, saying the music label lobby group can no longer … Continue reading

Posted in Links, Music, News | 1 Comment

First in Flight

    Once again another historical fact I was taught in school is now suspect and under attack: now they’re saying it was a Brazilian man, not the Wright Brothers, who was first to fly a plane.

Posted in Links, News | Leave a comment