I think my overeating is a kind of hoarding

Hoarder's home, Sussex. From The Art of Keeping.

This article at Slate features a photographer's collection of images of the homes of hoarders. While reading it, and the reader comments that follow, I had a realization. There is a great deal of similarity between the justifications used by hoarders and the feelings I have toward food.

A year's diet, visualized

From BoingBoing: "One woman documented her meals for a year and turned them into a series of data visualizations. What did I learn? Well, for one thing, how important it is to gather and group data into logical and easily comparable categories. For another, this woman ate more french fries than fruit. (Via Liz Landau) — Maggie"