Jason Kottke has posted his Best Links of 2004. I had seen Big and Bad before and it's well worth the read. The Decline of Fashion Photography was also interesting. Ah, hell. Read all of 'em.
The Way We Eat Now has a quote that made my jaw drop.But the most powerful technology driving the obesity epidemic is television. "The best single behavioral predictor of obesity in children and adults is the amount of television viewing," says the School of Public Health's Gortmaker. "The relationship is nearly as strong as what you see between smoking and lung cancer. Everybody thinks it's because TV watching is sedentary, you're just sitting there for hours—but that's only about one-third of the effect. Our guesstimate is that two-thirds is the effect of advertising in changing what you eat."
