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SunChips, Frito-Lay’s popular line of multigrain snacks, will introduce for Earth Day 2010 the first fully compostable snack chip bag made from plant-based materials. Packaging Digest describes the key design innovations behind SunChips’ new packaging:
Current snack food packaging has three layers: a printed outer layer with packaging visuals/graphics, an inner layer, which serves as a [...]
Makes perfect sense to me. I’ve always been suspicious of the airline “baggage” conditions for pets, and I know more than a few people who consciously or unconsciously don’t travel for pet-related reasons.
Petairways:
Each time pets move anywhere, from the Pet Lounge to the pet limo or from the pet limo to the plane, we track and record [...]
An essential animal-friendly personal care product that’s often overlooked:
Contraceptives may have been tested on animals or contain animal-derived ingredients. Condoms are usually made from latex. Although not present in the finished product, most condoms utilise casein, a milk protein, during processing. Some also contain milk powder.
Glyde health are registered with The Vegan Society and are thus [...]
Interesting case of ranking algorithms as covert mechanisms of inclusion/exclusion:
A “glitch” on Amazon.com has caused the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others. (via, April 12th)
“Sunaisthēsis is the distant origin of the modern “synaesthesia”; the verb from which it was drawn, sunaisthanesthai, can be found in two passages of Aristotle’s treatises. “Formed by the addition of the prefix ‘with’ (sun-) to the verb ‘to sense’ or ‘to perceive’ (aisthanesthai), the expression in all likelihood designated a ‘feeling in common,’ a [...]
There are, it would seem, two kinds of novelty: the one that breaks from tradition, ushering in a new order, and the one that perpetuates the same under the guise of change. The latter, associated with fads and trends, marks the logic of consumption, whereas the former, querying the new and indeterminate, suggests a revolutionary [...]
It’s not too often that you see a Baudrillard-influenced paper published in a legal journal, but perhaps our time calls for it. Money, no doubt, has never seemed so abstract, imaginary, and, yet, hard to come by. The abstract to John J. Chung’s timely “Money as Simulacrum: The Legal Nature and Reality of Money” explains:
The [...]
Though the two lectures comprising Pierre Bourdieu’s short work On Television (1996) more or less exclusively focus on news programming, and predate the blogosphere, if not the internet — which is important to the extent that so much of what he has to say here concerns ownership of the means of information production, — the [...]
“The alabaster bosom that seventeenth-century poets celebrated in their poems was to be found only in dolls, whose fragility often cost them their existence.”
Walter Benjamin, “Cultural History of Toys” 115
Taken together, three short essays by Walter Benjamin on the subject of toys outline a novel approach to the cultural meaning of toys, [...]
Remember layaway? If you don’t, you will. With the credit crunch now in full swing, it’s making a comeback. Ben Popken over at The Consumerist summarizes its return:
Layaway is back this year. What’s that? It’s where you buy an item at a store, but don’t pay for it completely right away. The store puts the [...]
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