Another excerpt from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity's f.a.c.t.s. report, which looks at food advertising directed at children:

This is off my topics, but some things are just worth sharing, all by themselves. In this case, it's just visually appealing, but also crosses the intersection of art and technology, a neighborhood I particularly enjoy.

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

A kerfuffle in Australia has arisen over an advocacy ad that likens abuse of food with abuse of heroin, and I like it. The tagline asks a question not unlike I've asked before: If we acknowledge that whole classes of food are junk, why do we eat it?

From the Australian Broadcasting Co. story:

Lawrence Yang of San Francisco is an information architecture nerd by day, an art nerd by night, according to his website. He scored a night coup with this one...

The Alliance for Climate Protection is out with another Reality ad about the utter dishonesty perpetrated by the coal industry every time it promotes the term "clean coal." This one has the added attraction of having been directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, creators of some of the funniest, darkest, most engrossing films ever (Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, etc.).