Maura Johnston: "The new and improved Footlong Quarter Pound Coney is a blend of beef and pork and boasts a bigger size than ever before, weighing in at a quarter pound, while still featuring the classic coney toppings of chili and cheese." Jess Harvell: I'm eating here. Maura: But wait — what do hot dogs usually weigh? Jess: This sounds like the setup to a dirty joke.

A blogger has put together a map that shows which fast-food chains dominate which smoke-choked highways of this vast nation. It looks like your normal heat map of the U.S.A. (complete with big lavenderish splat over Texlahoma that represents Sonic) until you realize: All that black space isn't neutral, but controlled by McDonald's. (It took me a few seconds, too.) [Via]