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Mental Health Break

Robots, remixed:

Eclectic Method - Robots from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

Multimedia - Development Frameworks - Flash - Vimeo - Protocols

Who Will Hire The Old?

Yglesias throws a wrench into the retirement age debate:

My concern with the idea of raising the retirement age is twofold. Oneis the pretty obvious point that many jobs are a great deal morephysically taxing than the job of the average economist or politicalpundit. But you could in principle handle this fairly and equitablythrough the Disability Insurance element of Social Security. The otherissue is that as best I can tell from the labor market fate of peoplein the 50-65 age bracket...

A Glimpse Of NYC, Ctd

A reader writes:

From the time I was a child, I was labeled "weird" by classmates. I often wore that title with pride, considering it to mean "creative, off the wall, unique and downright interesting." I did a long stint in the Midwest and tried to meld into the Evangelical world, but I was often told that I didn't really fit their scene. "Where are you from?" I would get frequently. As a military brat, I'd learned to say, "Everywhere and nowhere."

I'd always dreaded the idea of NYC...

Quote For The Day II

"[There's:] a strange inconsistency to the opponents of
same-sex marriage. Their ends -- every child gets a mom and a dad --
are strangely mismatched to their means -- prohibit same-sex marriage.
It's sort of like banning bad moustaches to stop pornography. Perhaps
there's some vague association, but that's about it," - Jason Kuznicki.
















Same-sex marriage - United States - Politics - Marriage - Gay Lesbian and Bisexual

The VFYW Contest: Where Is That Window?

This photo was taken in early November. You have till noon Tuesday to guess it. Country first, then city and/or state. If no one guesses the exact location, proximity counts. Email entries to VFYWcontest@theatlantic.com (the regular Dish account was getting overwhelmed). Winner gets a free The View From Your Window book. Have at it. 

Country music - Arts - Web Design and Development - Hosting - Free

Against God Or Tyranny?

Douthat psychoanalyzes Hitchens:

Hitchens' anti-religious arguments feel the least heartfelt — theleast, well, Hitchens-esque — when they're couched in the language ofscientism. (I'm thinking, in particular, of his grating and forcedrhetorical habit of referring to human beings as "mammals" or"primates" in the course of these polemics …)Whereas they feel entirely authentic when they're couched as "aux armes, citoyens" rallying cries in the struggle against tyranny...Whereas Dawkins and co...

Face Of The Day

English artist Paul Wright creates hyper-realistic portraits using only the brush tool in Photoshop. Many more faces here.

Adobe Photoshop - Image editing - Graphics - English people - Photoshop

Rebuilding, Ever So Slowly

Lauren Collins spies on the World Trade Center site:

In mid-May, construction on One World Trade Center reached the
twentieth floor, or what is called the "typical office floor"—the point
beyond which the rest of the stories are easily replicated—and the hope
is that, from now on, the building will rise about a floor every ten
days.

World Trade Center - Construction - September 11 2001 - Terrorism - Incidents

The Weekly Wrap

Today on the Dish, the GOP establishment began to back Barton's comments, Joyner challenged Andrew over the BP "shakedown," and Frum wrung his hands. A local reporter in Nevada put the heat on Sharron Angle, readers cheered him on, and another dissented. Another good sign of journalism in Ann Arbor. Readers piled on Palin's attempt to meet with Margaret Thatcher. More Palin crack here, here, and here.

In other coverage, Josh Levin despaired down in the Gulf, Andrew sighed over the slipping of ...

Barton And The Right, Ctd

David Frum winces:

As Dave Weigel points
the escrow fund idea was proposed by BP itself, at the prodding
Republicans who endorsed the idea well before President Obama
heard of

This story is another example of the harm done by allowing talkradio & Fox – rather than elected officials and aspiring candidates– to define the GOP. Anybody heard any objection to the escrow fundfrom Mitt Romney? Has Mitt Daniels termed it a "shakedown"? BobbyJindal seems cool with the idea, ditto...