Here's looking at you, kid. The average American spends almost nine hours a day in front of screens--desktop PC, laptop, flat-screen Hi Def television, Monday Night Football at the local bar, Taxi TV, and so on. Wired has put together an optimal media food pyramid to make sure your mind doesn't go the way of your waistline. Remember, it's about quality, not quantity.

Just how far away can one get from the generic convenience of Starbucks, Subway, or OfficeMax at any given time? Turns out, not very. Stephen von Worley at Weather Sealed set out to chart the urban sprawl of America by mapping the 13,000+ locations of McDonald's across the lower 48 states. With the aid of Agg Data, he created a striking map of the US, colored by distance to the nearest domestic Mickey D's. Gorgeous, but terrifying.