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Links Around the Internet - Cloned Christians
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Cris Harshman on 08-01-2007
And many Christians - including Patricia Bodine, now a regular at the Lord’s Gym - say they do not feel at home in regular gyms.
“With most modern gyms, the tight clothes, seems as though a lot of people stare at you,” Bodine said. “Here, I just feel like it’s family. I don’t have to compare myself with anybody else.”
Frankly, I figure - whatever gets people to the gym and seek fitness in life, I can’t really knock it. Everyone’s got different incentives and motivation for seeking fitness, which are all every bit as valid as mine or anyone else’s. My cynicism comes more from marketers who target Christians as a cash crop, and it’s good to see that perhaps it isn’t the case this time.
Orkut Büyükkökten, creator of the Google social network that bears his name, dashes into CEO Eric Schmidt’s office and says, “We have a million Brazilian users!”
Eric says, “Keep up the good work.”
After Orkut leaves, Eric calls VP Marissa Mayer and asks, “How many is a brazillion again?”
Cloned Meat Info Roundup (@consumerist.com) - I don’t know how I feel about cloned meat. I read Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood a while back, an just like she predicted, I imagine soon we’ll have a collection of “tastes good” original food DNA and grow cloned stuff in a vat. I just hope I’m not around by then.
Six webapps to help keep your New Year’s resolutions (@lifehacker.com) -
FitDay, Wesabe, 43Folders - Lifehacker’s list is a good starting point to tackling your resolutions list.
How KFC went trans-fat free (@businessweek.com) - Disney, Starbucks and now KFC - this is a great movement.
Bayer, others settle with US over weight-loss ads (@reuters.com) - “You’re not going to find weight loss in a bottle of pills,” FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras told reporters. Amen to that. There’s no question any company’s marketing is designed to sell product, and people always make choices to believe advertising and spend money on products. But when a company makes false claims about a product, that’s predatory in my book. Based on a documentary recently aired on Dateline, I’d say any product can get airtime, and everyone’s got a price, even doctors who endorse products.
Mayo Clinic Study Endorses Concept Behind Nintendo’s Wii (@consumeraffairs.com) - First video games endorse and encourage rape, burglary and violence, and now they encourage exercise? Someone needs to get their story straight. I’m not a parent yet, so take this with a grain of salt - fitness is about more than exercise, and should be encouraged in ways other than video games. Play at the park together, walk on some trails, toss a ball back and forth. The decision is not between sitting on your rump or waving a controller around - there are other options.
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I think the Wii Fitness is a good idea. No, it may not be as good as running a marathon, but remember they aren’t targeting those who are already active and those who are capable of being active. The target audience are people who play a lot of video games and rarely if ever exercise (the couch potato) and older adults who aren’t necessarily able to do or go to traditional exersice (the nursing home folks). The Wii Fitness wasn’t created to lure gymbodies back to the television set. So I think it’s a good thing that will help people who otherwise think that they “can’t”.