Tuesday, February 25, 2014

22 sachets of sugar in your standard cup of coke... that is outrageous!

Here is a video that you must watch. It is an interview with Coke UK's president. Interviewer Paxman brings some dirty information about Coca Cola to light and this is how the Coke UK president reacted.

Paxman interview's Coke's UK President 

Having a calorie count on coke cups (jugs to be more accurate) is the extent to which Coke is responsible to the consumer... If Coke actually tells you that there is an equivalent of 22 sachets of sugar in your one standard cup of coke, will you still buy it? calorie counts are like useless disclaimers, they are not designed to genuinely inform the consumer, they only pass on the blame to the consumer... the "you saw it, yet you drank it, so don't blame us" approach. What a shame!

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Matured Girls

When I started watching Judd Apatow's Girls I was really disappointed... It wasn't a comedy that it claimed to be. It was more drama than comedy. In fact it was no where close to being funny... So I stopped watching it... But I happened to watch it once again this week and I was pleasantly surprised. It was good. Girls seems to have matured as a comedy - rich back stories have been established for all main characters and in the past few episodes of this season it has emerged as genuine comedy with lot of subtle humor. Way to go!

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Vube: From an annoying pop up website to good quality video sharing website...

First off, a confession: I am a sitcom junkie... Although I have subscription to cable, I cant schedule my day around the sitcoms, so putlocker, gorillavid and the likes come to the rescue. The best part about it is the convenience and the shorter ad-free duration... well, not exactly... whenever I click on a putlocker or gorillavid video link it takes me to one of their annoying sponsors' webpages... some of these are legitimate companies like Gillette, others not so much... or not at all, if you know what I mean. Of late one such annoying sponsor link has been that of a video sharing website called vube... I normally close it right away, but sometimes when the video that I want to watch takes time to load I get to listen to the vube video that starts playing in a pop-up window. Surprisingly, almost all the music that I have heard in it are really really good. Like this one, by a bunch of amateurs. http://vube.com/Fresh+RĂ©/hdBzCkHuZx/L/vote?t=s
We have heard of viral videos, but this website is becoming viral... I was ignoring it when it opened up in pop-ups now I go to it to listen to new and cool stuff. Check it out. 

Here is another cool animation video from vube: http://vube.com/DreamVision/dHeY7iPO3X?t=s