The Medium Influences the Message

I subscribe to most of the right blogs, and have seen probably dozens of really top-notch typographic or infographical short movies. But yesterday I saw, for the first time, one of them actually on a TV. This one:
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights from Seth Brau on Vimeo. For detail about the movie, this blog post explains it. The subject is the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which is 60 years old this year. We still seem to have enough dictators and warlords and other assorted jackasses, so it seems worth publicizing a bit more perhaps. Anyway, it was much, much more moving on TV than in a tiny window on the computer screen. It would be nice to see these sorts of things instead of the horrible, fear-inducing terrorists are everwhere sports, and similar ads that actually get aired. I'll note that the background is pretty yellow on ATSC at 720p, at least. It looks rather good, so I suspect this is on purpose.

Please be consistent with your pointless fears

Once again, and despite no solid evidence to support it, there is a well-publicized fear of mobiles causing cancer. So what to do about it, aside from not using phones at all?

He went even further and urged his colleagues to use whenever is possible the speakerphone mode or a wireless Bluetooth headset in order to keep he mobile phone away from the head and in general away from the body

Bluetooth is also a radio system. Why not fear that? So you say that it's a different frequency, and very low power? True, and irrelevant:

• Studies that came even close to proving any danger were with AMPS devices, at much lower frequencies; modern phones are quite high frequency
• Modern phones are also much, much lower power than old ones, and adjust power in general to use as little as possible. We're talking milliwatts.

I say, if you want to fear things, fear everything untested in a consistent manner. So, since no one has said otherwise: Bluetooth? It's a deadly killer!