Table scraps:

♣IT'S A FEW too many years late for me, but finally science is coming around to what I knew as a high school student: It's biologically unreasonable to make students get up so damn early for school. "Children learn from kindergarten on about the food pyramid, but no one is teaching them the life pyramid that has sleep at the base," a researcher told the Washington Post. For serious.

♣WHAT WOULD IT look like to map out your work day based on where your earnings are going? Diddly finds out, and it ain't pretty.

♣FOR ALL OUR vanity, Americans apparently have a pretty good fattitude. A recent survey found that only 24 percent of Americans consider overweight people to be less attractive. (What's up with that word "fattitude," you might ask? Check out the address of that link. It ends with "Fat_Attitudes.html," which I originally read as "fattitudes." I thought that was funny enough to repeat on the blog. Hah! Fattitudes.)

♣IN THE ULTIMATE showdown, everyone you can think of starts throwing fists. And even better, it happens with a strangely catchy song. (via Heaneyland) And here's a video with a significantly less catchy song, but amusing nonetheless. (via What's the Code)

♣WHOA. I HAD heard about Marcus Vick stepping on that guy's knee, but I finally got around to checking out the video. What a jackass. I hope the NFL gives him the cold shoulder -- although of course it won't, because a lack of decency doesn't hurt professional athletes. Right, Jason Kidd? (Oh, and on the topic of football videos, I also recently checked out the infamous Stanford Band Play, which some friends were talking about during last week's playoffs. If you haven't seen it, it's worth a look.)

♣WHAT DO YOU do on your commute to work? I listen to the radio. This guy films a talk show. (via Panopticist)

♣AND THEN, THERE'S this. (via Thighs)

Posted by Jason Feifer at January 12, 2006 12:19 AM