Glenn Erickson goes after several of my pet peeves in one story with When DVD Menus Attack! It’s all covered here: forced previews, anti-piracy warnings, spoilers, and unnecessarily complication designs. I especially hate sitting through the ubiquitous FBI warning screen designed by some government lackey who just opened Photoshop for the first time.
Another worthwhile read can be found in Mark Morford’s column entitled Evil: It’s the New Good! One of his targets is the annoying commercial/propaganda put out by the corn lobby to make high fructose corn syrup look harmless. Well, it may be harmless in small quantities but the food industry puts it in everything. Corn was never meant to be processed into a noxious goo that imitates the taste of other foods. Blecch.