Artist Brian Stuckey made a sculpture called “The Last Breakfast” which includes some favorite cereal mascots in a familiar setting.

I suddenly have a craving for Capt’n Crunch.

Frank Buckles, the last U.S. WWI veteran, has died. He was 110.

Never saying much about his POW experience, Buckles instead wanted attention drawn to the plight of the D.C. War Memorial. During a visit to the run-down, neglected site a few years ago, he went past the nearby World War II memorial without stopping, even as younger veterans stopped and saluted the old soldier in his wheelchair as he went by.

Christopher Jonassen takes pictures of the bottoms of pans, making them look like planets.

Irina Werning takes photos of people reenacting photos from their childhood (one of the photos is NSFW).

I love how she even got the classic camera colors and feel on the updated photos.

IBM’s computer, “Watson”, competes on “Jeopardy!” starting tomorrow in a three-game match against past-champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

Even so, the whole application rests on first understanding the Jeopardy clues, which, because they employ colloquialisms and often obscure references, can be challenging even for humans. That’s why this is such a good test case for natural language processing. Ferrucci says the ability to understand language is destined to become a very important aspect of computers. “It has to be that way,” he says. “We just cant imagine a future without it.”

DVR has already been set.

The Pittsburgh Penguins team bus got into an accident on their way to an outdoor practice session in New York’s Central Park, so the team had to get out and hail taxis to get to the practice.

“It was quite a sight,” coach Dan Bylsma said. “I think the gentleman involved in the accident backed off a little bit when he saw a whole hockey team get out with sticks and gloves in their hands — and if he had known anything about last night, that may be why he backed off.”

The Pens had just played the New York Islanders the night before in a game reminiscent of the 70′s.

The teams combined for 65 penalties that totaled 346 minutes and including 10 ejections. There were 15 fighting majors and 20 misconducts in the game that set records for both teams for most combined penalty minutes and left few players around to finish it.

Baseball Prospectus spent some time analyzing the ball game depicted in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, and figured out which game they attended. Knowing which game it was, and knowing how long the game took to finish, calls into question the timeline of the rest of the movie:

The eleven-inning game took 3:09 to complete, which means that the foul ball Ferris catches had to have been sometime after 4:00pm. That leaves, at the most, one hour and forty-five minutes for their trips to the museum, Sears Tower, the lake, and Sloane’s house, while squeezing in two musical numbers during the parade before racing home at 5:55pm. Seems a bit tough to squeeze all of that in for most normal people. But, seeing as Ferris has the magical ability to sound exactly like both a young Wayne Newton and a young John Lennon, I’m willing to believe he could make the schedule work.

Adam Taylor, who curated The Big Picture while at the Boston Globe, has moved to The Atlantic. It’s now his full time job (it was just a hobby while he was at the Globe), and he has big plans for it.

Awesome new feature that’s available now: the option to view the pictures sized 1280px wide.

A recording of Super Bowl I has been found. The recording has been referred to as “the holy grail” of sports media.

The recording also includes a shocking sight for a Super Bowl: empty seats. The game didn’t sell out, even with ticket prices that topped out at $12.

$12?! Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $76 today. A ticket to tomorrows Super Bowl, at face value, average about $800, and are going for well over $2,000 on secondary markets.