THERE’S NOW A TEA PARTY PATRIOTS CHANNEL. With Austin Bay.

QUESTION? Who Asked Flickr to Take Down Obama Joker Photo? “As one would think the only parties with a possible copyright issue are Time, DC Comix, and the photographer, and these three apparently didn’t submit a DMCA notice, Flickr either acted on its own to take down a picture it didn’t like or management is protecting the identity of the complainant.”

LOTS OF DVD markdowns.

REASON TV: British MEP Daniel Hannan on the NHS, Enoch Powell, and His Libertarian Plan for Britain.

WILL WILKINSON: It ought to be less embarrassing to have been influenced by Ayn Rand than by Karl Marx.

MARK TAPSCOTT: You may not want to go there, Henry.

RICH KARLGAARD: The VW Economy. “Foreshadowed by the spring-summer stock market recovery, the American and global economies have turned the bend and are in recovery. So declares every economist. Believe it. Now the hard question. Will the recovery be V-, U- or W-shaped? Answer: VW-shaped.”

BRENDAN LOY: Danny probably not a serious threat to East Coast.

CROWDSOURCING road congestion data.

A KINDLE-KILLER? Sony Unveils New 3g e-Reader. They’re going to a standard format, too, along with a bunch of other e-book folks.

NOW THE RECESSION IS SERIOUS: Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools. “This fall, law students are competing for half as many openings at big firms as they were last year in what is shaping up to be the most wrenching job search season in over 50 years.”

Money quote — more or less literally — “Had I seen where the market was going, I would’ve gone to a lower-ranked but less expensive public school.”

FULL EMPLOYMENT? New CBO Projection: 2.3 million fewer people working in 2010.

THE FOLKS AT CAR LUST want to hear about your cars.

POLITICAL WIRE: Unknown Challengers in Dead Heat with Lincoln. “A new Public Policy Polling survey in Arkansas shows Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) tied with three potential challengers who have essentially non-existent name recognition.”

SILICON GRAFFITI: Ed Driscoll talks to Steven Hayward on Hayward’s new The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution.

TODAY IN HISTORY: First cannon fired in battle, 1346. Depending on how you define “cannon.”

FROM M.I.T.: RoboFish.

WHO’S DRIVING TWITTER’S POPULARITY? Not teenagers. “Just 11 percent of its users are aged 12 to 17, according to comScore. Instead, Twitter’s unparalleled explosion in popularity has been driven by a decidedly older group. That success has shattered a widely held belief that young people lead the way to popularizing innovations.”

FIGURING THE RATINGS: Trying to keep up with modern viewing habits.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: No trillion-dollar healthcare tribute for Kennedy. “The pleas for politicos and pundits to refrain from politicizing the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy are actually quite charming in their naivete. The so-called Last Lion of the U.S. Senate was not even dead half of a day when the politicking began. Proponents of Democratic efforts to reform overhaul America’s troubled healthcare system quickly began urging passage as a tribute to Kennedy’s lifelong efforts on the issue. . . . A new survey from Public Opinion Strategies finds that just 25 percent of Americans favor President Obama’s proposals, comparable to the scant 23 percent who favored Bill Clinton’s healthcare plan in 1994 as it imploded. Betting markets put the odds of passage of a public option at just one in three. And in its lead editorial today, the Washington Post said the new budget deficit numbers mean the Obamacrats should start from scratch and develop a more affordable approach.”

WOMEN WITH HIGHER TESTOSTERONE pushed toward riskier careers.

Research this stuff all you want, just remember the Althouse rule on presentation.

GQ: A Sober Look At Ted Kennedy. By the late Michael Kelly. With supporting roles by Chris Dodd and a waitress.

UPDATE: Memories.

VANDALISM BY DEMOCRAT AT DEMOCRATIC HQ IN DENVER: A blame-the-GOP effort? “‘This sounds like the type of Democratic tactic from the left fringe trying to make Republicans look mean-spirited,’ Balmer said. ‘In this case, it blew up in their face. He was caught red-handed.'”

UPDATE: Breaking: Denver Vandal Worked for Dem Politician– Was Arrested at RNC Convention!

At least he wasn’t one of those Austin Firebombers.

A ROBOT WITH BONES that moves like you do.

MOVE WELL, AVOID INJURY is a website with advice on avoiding back, elbow, etc. problems. Helpful to people who spend a lot of time at the computer, I’d imagine. . . .