Portion Sizes in ‘Last Supper’ Paintings Grew Over Time

The researchers’ analysis showed that portion sizes of main courses (usually eel, lamb and pork) depicted in the paintings grew by 69 percent over time, while plate size grew by 66 percent and bread size grew by 23 percent.

The paintings analyzed covered the last 1000 years or so. What a fascinating way to measure changes to our collective views of food over time based on its relative availability.

[Via Jason Kottke]

Content-aware fill in Photoshop. Ridiculously cool! I think Adobe just gave me a reason to upgrade from CS3. Eventually.

[John Nack, via John Gruber.]

Horsetail Firefall (via Wiggum03)

I don’t clean, I play the game “Where does this belong?
—Rands

Trying out the whole stand-up desk thing. So far so good!

The reason you feel most comfortable with a job… is that you’ve been brainwashed by many years of school, socialization and practice.
—Seth Godin

The modern workplace is structured completely wrong. It’s really optimized for interruptions.

Jason Fried - Why You Can’t Work at Work. Another required viewing for anyone involved in building software. Especially if you’re in a management or supervisory role ;-)

We really let people make their own decisions… Quality is the leader, and everyone has to understand that that’s what this is what it’s all about: we’re making good products together here. We’re not making your idea, or my idea, we’re making a product that’s useful for our customers.

CrossFit Nick

Last night I fired up a blog to keep track of my workouts and various thoughts on fitness and nutrition. It’s probably not very interesting to most people, but there you have it :)