Pop Culture's Snack Attack
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From ringtones to bloglets to short-blast video games, today's amusements comes in bite-size morsels. A tasty Wired magazine report on instant entertainment.
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In the cross-promotional, self-referential, multimedia universe that has become pop culture, "iCarly" -- a new television show/Web site/webcast from Nickelodeon -- seems almost inevitable. It's so meta, it'll make your head spin.
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We take a look back at how companies try to convince an incurious public to buy computers or videogames during times when TV audiences weren't as tech savvy as they are today, and find some comic results.
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Kraft Foods will launch ad blitz to give popular cracker brand a punch of playfulness.
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Comment is free: John Harris:  Our popular culture is increasingly defined by an unhealthy refusal to let go of the past
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There's more bad news for those pudgy couch potatoes, junk food junkies and TV devotees -- and this time it really hits them where it hurts.
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How an ad for lemon-lime pop bears a jarring similarity to the news--and keeps on running
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From McDonalds to Levis, video games are increasingly being used for product placement.
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Weâve talked about popcorn here on Dinerâs Journal before, but today brings some actual popcorn news. For more on that, and a way to avoid becoming a news story yourself, Iâd like to present Mark Bittman, who writes the Minimalist column for the Times. I think the guyâs got a future in blogging. Take it [...].
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Food, friends, and elf figurines add up. Here's some advice on how to handle the holiday tab.
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LOS ANGELES  - Spike TV has acquired an appetite for competitive eating.
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Keep an eye on the salsa this Super Bowl Sunday: A researcher inspired by a famous "Seinfeld" episode has concluded that double dipping is just plain gross.
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TO fight an obesity crisis, the British government plans to ban junk food advertisements on television before 9pm. Viewership figures show that 70 per cent of children&#39;s TV viewing takes place between 6pm and 9pm.
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This is going to take crackerjack timing.
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So I'm watching a new Subway commercial (the sandwich store, not the New York commuting purgatory), and the company has a new sandwich. The descriptive term is "overstuffed." Other call-outs I remember include "feast" and "satisfying." Unfortunately for Subway, these words don't take away from the visual impact. These things make the actors look like they're trying to stuff a football into their faces. One girl was eating a 'wich that was literally bigger than her head. In Normalville, we call that biting off more than you can chew. And when that happens in real life, you should take smaller bites â¦ or outsource.
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America is in the grips of a nefarious chicken-finger pandemic, in which a blandly tasty foodstuff has somehow become the de facto official nibble of our young.
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Some of the recording industry's copyright arguments can easily be applied to popular food, and they still don't go down easy. Commentary by Jennifer Granick.