May 2009
44 posts
Facts about cigarettes and smoking
Global tobacco use:
There are more than 1 billion smokers in the world, with China (30% of world’s smokers), India (11.2%) and Indonesia (4.8%) representing the top 3 countries.
Tobacco use is increasing globally, although it is decreasing in high-income countries. As governments in developed countries started implementing policies to reduce smoking, tobacco companies are shifting their...
WHY DO WE NEED TO CAMPAIGN FOR PICTURE-BASED...
BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN FOUND TO WORK IN COUNTRIES THAT HAVE REQUIRED THEIR USE. FOR EXAMPLE:
In Canada, 58% of smokers said the warnings made them think more about the health effects of smoking.
In Brazil, 67% of smokers said the warnings made them want to quit, and 54% said they made them change their opinion about the health consequences of smoking.
In Singapore, 28% of smokers said the...
Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were... →
“In answering the question, Jens, Lars, and team re-imagined email and instant-messaging in a connected world, a world in which messages no longer need to be sent from one place to another, but could become a conversation in the cloud. Effectively, a message (a wave) is a shared communications space with elements drawn from email, instant messaging, social networking, and even wikis.”
Exercise not likely to rev up your metabolism →
“In their own research, Melanson and his team studied moderately active people who, on separate days, performed low-intensity or high-intensity cycling, or no structured exercise at all. They repeated their experiment with endurance athletes (competitive runners and triathletes), while comparing sedentary obese people with sedentary lean people, and then again while comparing older men with...
I Quit Tumblarity
hunsonisgroovy:
Dear Tumblr,
I played your game called Tumblarity ever since it was released. I believed you guys had good intentions when you released it so I went with it since you guys haven’t steered me wrong… until now.
My Tumblarity fell over 200+ point when I went to take a shower. Then another 300+ when I went to class. WTF? I want to know how this number is calculated right now. I...
“Newspapers are an important part of our lives, not to read, of course, but, when...”
– Stephen Colbert (via A Photo Editor)
How Long Did It Take for the World to Identify... →
“How quickly did the world realize that Google would come to dominate Web search in a way that few businesses have ever been dominated? Did anyone know from the get go that it would whip AltaVista and other once-mighty sites?
It’s still surprisingly hard to search the Web for information from a particular time period. But I found some early references to Google–mostly positive, and none...
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About →
sumfight:
Great read, here is a taste of it
The way one should cut a Kiwi Fruit in half (along its length or across the middle).
Leaving the kitchen door open (three times a day that one, minimum).
The best way to hang up washing.
Those little toothpaste speckles you make when you brush your teeth in front of the mirror.
I eat two-fingered Kit-Kats like I’d...
“It’s the CIA World Factbook on steroids plus a calculator.”
– John C. Dvorak summarizing Wolfram Alpha
New services promise online life after death →
CNN covering Legacy Locker and other online matters after someone’s death. I took notes about this topic previously here and here.
Lily Allen covering Britney Spears’...
How to Win Friends and Influence People Principles... →
7(ish) Things I’ve Always Wondered about: Back To... →
Nit-picking one of my favorite movies of all time.
Upon his return to 1985 Marty wakes up on a seemingly average Saturday morning only to find everything has changed. Marty asks “What are you wearing dave?” and Dave says “Its a suit Marty, I always wear a suit to the office” Really Dave? well its Saturday. No one goes to the office on a Saturday. Where are you really going Dave? And why did...
Kris Allen’s cover of Heartless is...
Thailand turns into Indonesia - and vice versa →
“If Thailand seemed to represent sunrise in South-East Asia, Indonesia appeared to be the region’s nightfall.
Today we see an extraordinary role reversal. Thailand is now a wreck, suffering a constitutional crisis, emergency rule and an investment strike.”
It’s quite encouraging to see more and more positive developments in Indonesia in the past few years. I don’t...
I'm embarassed...
That I just discovered http://www.latfh.com/ . Follow!
“The OECD estimates that Singapore has 370 billion dollars in money haven...”
– Singapore - haven for money and fugitives | Getting at the truth
