Hints and tips:
...We’re trying to find that balance between technology that’s motivating — that allure to get you off your couch and break the inertia — but not be too much in the way....
...“It’s a great time to be a couch potato as long as you can handle the overwhelming supply. There’s an unbelievable array of options.”...
...That’s the subject of Werner Herzog’s new film Family Romance, LLC (opening in the UK later this year)....
...Afterwards, Mr Emanuel napped on a couch at CFG’s offices to sleep off the effects of a transatlantic flight the night before....
...Police in London, New York and Los Angeles are also investigating harassment and sexual assault allegations involving Mr Weinstein in a case that has exposed the “casting couch” culture in Hollywood and...
...The pace of digitisation will slow if couch potatoes cling to their TV habits, and others may carve off a bigger slice of the video advertising pie, but the underlying shift feels inexorable....
...Nick Broomfield’s Whitney: Can I Be Me (BBC2, Saturday, 9pm) is a collage largely based around interviews and archival and unseen footage from Houston’s last major tour in 1999, one she struggled to complete...
...In an accompanying video filmed sitting on a couch at home, surrounded by family photographs, and posted on Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg said that improving education, advancing science and strengthening communities...
...We’ll be on the Alphaville couch at 4pm, so mark your agenda....
...Many US activists now couch their demands as asking boards to “consider” spin offs and to appoint “independent” directors — rather than the activist himself — to the board....
...That means the big screen, high-definition television in our living room would be underused were it not for new devices designed to enable couch potatoes like me to watch internet-based video services on...
...The search company has mounted much more ambitious pitches for the world’s couch potatoes before this....
...(Financial Times) Black Friday: Online sales jumped more than 20 per cent in the US at the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season as the growing use of tablet computers fuelled “couch commerce...
...But they are still far outnumbered by traditional couch potatoes....
...Inertia is a defining characteristic of the medium that produced the couch potato....
...Broadcasters have marked 2009, their worst year in recent memory, by seeking a term other than “television” to describe the business of captivating couch potatoes....
...Yet since the 1990s, at least in the case of British English, words and phrases such as “couch potato” have been flooding into the language at an extraordinary rate....
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