5 ways TV is harmful to your health

Oh, well…

Amplify’d from theweek.com

Americans log an average of five hours in front of their TV sets each day, and researchers say that’s enough to send them to an early grave. A new study finds that for every two hours of television per day, a viewer’s risk of an early death rises by 13 percent. The chances of diabetes jumps by 20 percent, and the risk of heart disease increases by 15 percent. Read more at theweek.com

 

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Sullenberger and Flight 1549

The FAA released the tapes of Flight 1549 voice recorder. Here are more of the tape with video.

And if you can take Katie Couric, the whole flight crew is sitting down with her on 60 minutes this Sunday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

24 thus far

We’re seven episodes into season 7 of the popular FOX show 24 and I thought I’d share a couple of observations.

I like the major themes so far. There’s no oddball story line sucking time away from the main story line like last season. Everything appears to tie in or will tie in eventually.

The program, which broke ground with not one, but two African American presidents (Did this pave the way for Obama’s victory?) now has a female president.

Now one thing I haven’t liked:

Yes, Tony is alive! The CTU, although disbanded, still has Buchanon and Chloe to aid Jack in his quests. Renee, the FBI agent, was rescued and resusitated. The presidents husband comes out of a drug-induced paralysis to prevent a plot from being successful. I’m halfway wondering if Michelle and Edgar will appear. Maybe Emerson is not really dead.

But overall things seem to be progressing better than last year. There’s the usual ineptness of the federal government, but not it’s still believable, because the suspense sucks you along.

24 Liveblog: Season 7 – Episode 6

I’ll be over at Blogs.4Bauer for the live blog of Episode 6.

“With all due respect, Madame President, ask around”

There is little doubt that “24″ is back. After a lackluster season 6 which looked as though the writers wanted to go one direction and had to go a different direction, resulting in the appearance of a show jumping the shark, the first four episodes (like the season 6.5 “Redemption”) shows a better product.

The folks at Blogs.4Bauer have their usual irreverent reviews of the first two episodes (latch on to those nicknames because they may be kept all season) along with an “historical” look at “Talk like Jack Bauer Day.” They also live blog each episode using the Cover it Live vehicle.

The folks at 24fans.net have two trailers for Episode 5 up, as well as short summaries for the first 4. The title is supposedly something Jack says to the President in Episode 5.

I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.

Less than 24 hours till “24″

24Fans.net has several trailers. And a countdown clock. Which I would put on here, but it probably requires JavaScript which WordPress.com pretty much rules out.

This season looks promising. Tony Almeda appears to have switched to the bad guys, Jack is being held accountable for what he’s done in the past, and a female president. Every one knows a female president would be weak (Ducks. Quickly.).

Hopefully it will live up to the previews.

Episodes 1-4 appear to have been leaked although of low quality. You can find some spoilers, too, although not enough to betray alot.