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Miss Cellania
October 4, 2007
by Miss Cellania - October 4, 2007 - 1:56 AM

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Illustrated BMI Categories, an art project to show you what the classifications underweight, normal, overweight, obese, and morbidly obese look like on real people. I learned a lot about the Body Mass Index just by people’s reactions to this.

He rigged up a Practical Image Recognition system to stop his cat from carrying prey into the house. It worked, and also kept skunks and birds from getting in (with photo evidence).

Newscaster: “That is the wrong video.” I never would have known it if he hadn’t told us.

Horrorwood takes a look at scary movies about hands with minds of their own. I’ve known guys to use that excuse, too.

A down-to-earth account of the Great Boston Molasses Flood. How many jokes can you make about two million gallons of molasses in January? A lot.

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Comments (4)

  1. Oh my God!
    Those women that are overweight look totally normal/healthy to me.
    I fear to know what I’m considered!

    And Moxie the “obese” cat’s photo had me cracking up! Moxie is not fat…just fluffy!!!!

    posted by Sweet Pea on 10-4-2007 at 8:48 am

  2. Check out a ton of comments on BMI at the post from yesterday on Neatorama.

    posted by Miss Cellania on 10-4-2007 at 8:51 am

  3. The BMI always makes me laugh. As a broad generalization for the human population it is pretty acurate. However, it doesn’t take into account people with different body types. My BMI is 30 (5′11″ 225lbs) but nobody would characterize me as obese. I’m stocky and a little overweight, but I have very broad shoulders and am pretty muscular.

    When you devise a calculation to make broad generalizations about the population, you get broad generalizations. The problem is when BMI is used on an individual basis. Usually to sell diet products.

    posted by Dusty on 10-4-2007 at 10:04 am

  4. Just like Dusty, It said I was nearing the obese range. If you saw me you’d think that was ridiculous. I have stocky Italian ancestry. I am literally “big boned.”

    posted by Tdave on 10-7-2007 at 6:21 am

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