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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

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New Toys

By Matthew Yglesias

Jan 29 2007, 9:09 AM ET Comment

Museum man


I normally only see new internet toys after 9,000 other people seem to have recommended them, but I haven't seen Dumpr.Net get much play. It's a website that interacts with your Flickr account to generate modified versions of the photos you already have uploaded. For example, I took my shot of Kriston under red light and used Dumpr's Museumr program that places your photo inside a frame at one of several museums around the world.

They have various other features, though in my opinion the Museum one is the best. And if for some reason you don't have a Flickr account, you can just upload a photo from your hard drive. But why don't you have a Flickr account?

Something to chew over while contemplating the rise of the blipster ("a person who is black and also can be stereotyped by appearance, musical taste, and/or social scene as a hipster"). Crucial back context provided by The Onion's classic look (from the part of the paper that isn't jokes) at "Alternative Rock Radio's Race Problem."

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