Remember when Dove got kudos for featuring “real women” in their commercials – you know – actual, non-supermodel humans.
Oops.
Turns out those real women may have been digitally “improved” a bit. The New Yorker has a recent feature piece on Pascal Dangin, “the premier retoucher of fashion photographs.” Turns out, Dangin says he fixed some items on Dove’s “real” women. To quote Dangin in the New Yorker: “it was great to do, a challenge, to keep everyone’s skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.”
People say they watch less TV once they got TiVo or other DVR doodad. Good for them, I guess.
But turns out most people end up watching more TV when they spring for a DVR, not less.
Ratings guru Nielsen, who knows a thing or two about TV watching, crunched some numbers from actual TV set-top box data and found TV viewing rose 3 percent at 9 p.m. and five percent at 11 p.m. (Yes, your cable box probably records every click of your remote control.) That might not sound like a huge increase, but consider that people already watch about 5-6 hours a day.
Other fun stuff Nielsen found:
—The heaviest DVR time shifters are middle-income women, 18-49 who recorded about half the TV they watch. Hooray for HGTV and FoodNetwork.
-- People pulling down $100k paychecks shift the least, just 10 percent, but they almost all have HDTV, so it looks real nice when they do.
Sure you can vote in November. But why wait to get a ringtone from a future Commander in Chief.
Barak Obama’s campaign appears the hippest to the cellular set, with more than a dozen customized ringtones from speeches or recorded by B. himself, including rap, club and bluegrass clips, and a Plain Jane recording of him saying “This is Barak Obama. It’s time to change America and answer the call. (Get it? “Answer the call.” )
Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem to have her own ringtones on her website. (Correct us if she does) But lots of other people do. Here’s one from myxertones.com, with her saying “I want you Barak Obama.” (Funny, taken out of context.) Slate.com has one of her laughing rather awkwardly. Ok, really awkwardly.
Quotones.com has a half dozen John McCain ringtones with quotes about staying in Iraq 100 years, getting the “Guatemalans off his lawn” and a joking that he missed parties in the 1960s because he was “tied up at the time.”
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