This girl really enjoys the Stanley Steemer jingle

If you’re like me you think you’ll just watch for about thirty seconds and the next thing you’ll know you’ll have a smile on your face after watching the whole video.  Yeah, the video is a bit old, but it’s new to me.

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The 20 most popular web sites every year since 1996

Below are snippets from the first and last five years, but you check out the full size chart and article here.

Looking back, it’s kinda surprising to see AOL at the top of the list, which actually continues on until 2002 until Yahoo takes the top spot.  Penthouse was also a bit of a surprise, you’d think Playboy would have topped them.  Google won’t even make the list until 2001.  I would have never guessed that Yahoo took the top spot in 2013.

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This Really Surprises Me

Little change seen in fast food portion size, product formulation between 1996 and 2013

Two new reports from researchers at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University show little change in fast food portion sizes and product formulation between 1996 and 2013. Led by Alice H. Lichtenstein, D.Sc., director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the USDA HNRCA, the researchers analyzed the calorie, sodium, saturated fat and trans fat content of popular menu items served at three national fast-food chains between 1996 and 2013. They found that average calories, sodium, and saturated fat stayed relatively constant, albeit at high levels. The exception was a consistent decline in the trans fat of fries. The studies published in Preventing Chronic Disease, a journal of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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