Remains of the Day: Don't Eat What You See on TV

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Diets based on food we see on TV make us fat, Firefox considers a cool new look for dialogs, and email addresses that aren't supposed to show up on Facebook still end up indexed by Google.

  • In-Content UI Visual Unification
    Firefox is working on unifying the visual user interface to make it more streamlined and consistent in the next major release, Firefox 4. Check out the post to see the screenshots. [Chromatic Pixel]
  • Diet Based on TV Ads Makes People Fat, Unhealthy
    If viewers only ate foods advertised on TV, they would consume more than 20 times the fat and sugar they need, with less than half of the vegetables they should eat. Unfortunately, studies show that advertising influences what types of food people eat. [Discovery News]
  • Are Smartphones a Productivity Tool?
    Smartphones are often touted as a productivity tool, but are they that much more productive when they lead to burn out? [Work Awesome]
  • A REAL Facebook privacy issue: Email addresses NOT listed on Facebook are getting indexed by Google
    Through Google, personal emails submitted to Facebook (even if they are not tied to an account) are getting indexed by the search engine. [Cory Watilo]
  • Introducing sudoSocial.me
    Open-source experiment sudoSocial is a social networking landing platform that lets you control your social networking streams and your personal information available on the web. [Mozilla Labs]
  • Google Campaign Tools
    If you want to spread your organization's message more effectively, Google has all of its campaign-spreading services neatly on one page for a one-stop shop. [Google]
  • Google Chrome Now Supports WebM Video Format
    The new developer version of Chrome has support for the new WebM video standard. The WebM project is a royalty-free alternative to H.264 video encoding. [ReadWriteWeb]
  • Stay Updated on Facebook and Privacy
    Facebook gets a privacy page to help you stay up-to-date with privacy issues on the popular social networking site. [Facebook]