A study looked at the portion size of 52 paintings of the last supper (painted between 1000 and 1700’s) and found they are getting bigger. Professor Brian Wansink, who lead the research:

“We think that as art imitates life, these changes have been reflected in paintings of history’s most famous dinner.”

Mountain resort town in Washington State for sale on eBay. It’s got 10 acres, a restaurant, a gas station, ranch, and it’s own post office. Property taxes are $2,048.

At this time the highest bid is $359,000, which is less than a nice 1 bedroom in Manhattan.

UPDATE: It sold for $370,601…still less than a 1 bedroom in Manhattan.

An analysis of Flickr photos shows that Apple’s 5th Avenue store is the 5th most photographed location in NYC. The Statue of Liberty comes in 7th.

(in the photo that accompanies the post, you can see the back of my head and my backpack from opening day).

Artist Jeremy Dean converted a Hummer into a horse drawn cart. Quite possibly the best use of a Hummer I’ve seen, however, the passengers sit inside and are therefore deprived of the open-air cart experience. It’d be good in the rain, though.

NASA finds shrimp under Antarctic ice.

“We were operating on the presumption that nothing’s there,’’ said NASA scientist Robert Bindschadler [...]

On a related note, I had shrimp for lunch.

Artist Mark Bennett had made blueprints of fictional homes including Ricky & Lucy Ricardo, Bruce Wayne, and Wilma & Fred Flintstone.