Bullshit Alert: i-Dosing
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Drugs, Media
Planned on posting this tomorrow with a little commentary from myself but just come across an article that will more than likely be pubished in tomorrow’s Daily Mail so thought I’d post a little something now.
Essentially i-Dosing is audio that is meant to make people feel like they are taking narcotics and apparently teenagers are taking to it like its the next big thing since meow meow.
When reading articles and watching news items about the story I can’t help but think about the Brass Eye Drugs Episode
Tags: Brass Eye, Drugs, I-dosing, Media, Meow, Narcotic, No Agenda, Panic
Bongo Bongo Land 2 – 1 Former Soviet Republic of Bulimia
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Media
I genuinly think Mike Phelps from Yeovil believes those places exisit 
I retweeted this reader’s letter from the Daily Mail yesterday and PlashingVole has a picture from the print edition that I thought I’d share with you:
Seeing as today is also “Follow Friday” on twitter I reccomend that you follow; if your on twitter, the following media/pr accounts:
Tags: Daily Fail, Daily Mail, Football, Letter, Media, World Cup
Home Office Ads
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Media, Moan, current
I hate this current series of Home Office adverts that are currently being played on various TV and radio stations. Does the Government really need to tell people to lock their doors?
Tags: Advertising, Crime, Government, Home Office, Media, Moan, Radio, Thieves, TV
Lets Talk Books: Celebrity Literature
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Books, Culture, opinion
Being in my final year at university; and potentially going on to postgraduate education, I’m naturally starting to accumulate a large amount of books. In fact I even find myself being unnaturally drawn into the second hand book stand that occasionally appears in Wolverhampton’s Wulfrun shopping centre; I’m literally (by which of course I mean metaphorically) like a bee attracted to honey (ok, that was a simile)
So recently while I belatedly tried to locate a science section within a local WHsmiths store; while waiting for someone else within the store, I couldn’t help but notice the amount of celebrity tush that was being peddled. Usually when I purchase books I tend to do it online, more often than not from amazon, and this is the reason the amount of celebrity “so called” literature that is being pushed had escaped my knowledge. From what I could see, the shop was; on the whole, nothing more than a temple praising the vacuous cult of celebrity, presumably Jordan, Kerry Katona and Cheryl Cole make up the Holy Trinity. But while these books appear to be spawned by satan himself, they actually play a vital role in keeping books alive.
Without actually going into the marketing figures yet, I can only assume that celebrity books are most probably single handedly keeping the book industry; as we currently know it, alive. So while the books are soulless and evidently appear to have a more elevated importance that science in mainstream stores, I’m willing; unlike many likeminded people I’ve spoke to, to accept that they could in fact be price worth paying. In a world where the choices for consumption of information and knowledge are ever growing and diversifying books should continue to play an important role, be them in traditional or digital form (a topic for a future blogpost perhaps).
So maybe rather than slating people for reading this celebrity rubbish, we should in fact be praising them for at least entering a book store and giving reading a go. Possibly we should thank them for keeping the industry alive for the time being. For I’m sure that many if not all of you will agree that books still have a vital role to play in shaping our knowledge of the world.
Edit: Perhaps I need to read even more, cannot believe I mis-spelt the word literature in the title, doh. Mistake has been corrected.
Tags: Biography, Books, Celebritiy, Cheryl Cole, Jordan, Kerry Katona, Knowledge, Literature, Media, Science
Pointless Studies
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Culture, Media
Pointless studies, generally speaking used to annoy me. It wasn’t the studies themselves, or even the fact that they were being reported that annoyed me, but the fact that some people seem to take them seriously. But who is to blame for this? The news media, for misinforming the public and abusing there position of power, or the people that just accept what is printed as fact without questioning it. Well I’m not even gonna try to answer that here, nor do I wish to delve into it. But the use of “studies in the media” in all its various aspects is interesting in my opinion, and David Mitchell in his most recent article in the The Observer comically analyses new proposals by the Government to “weed out pointless studies”
A newspaper headline chilled me to the bone: “New panel to weed out ‘pointless’ studies,” it read. Pointless studies are meat and drink to columnists like me. Not the fillet steak and vintage claret of Gordon Brown audibly farting in the Commons or Jeremy Clarkson being attacked by a miniature poodle, but a Peperami and Fanta snack that keeps the wolf from the door in the leaner times. Without a constant supply of scientific research claiming that chocolate makes you romantic, white wine enhances sarcasm or automatic transmission makes your cock go floppy, I’d have to take a lot more weeks off.
I Just wanted to bring your attention to the article, and in fact his column which is consistently funny/informative, and while I’m recommending columnists that are entertaining to read, take a look a Charlie Brookers Column also.
Tags: Charlie Brooker, Columnists, David Mitchell, Media, News, Observer, Pointless Studies
I Like Webcomics!*
Posted by unluckydip | Filed under Culture, Web, comedy
*Unfortunatly they are conducive to getting work done.
Tags: comics, correlation, firmware, Geek, Journalism, maths. math, Media, update, upgrade, Web, work
