The Bleeding Heart Show

Folks, I have two things for you today (yes, I was reading the Times):

1. Some gorgeous photos from the New York Times. They were taken by Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao, a recent arts graduate, for a student photography contest sponsored by the Times. The interesting thing about them, in my opinion, is the way that he photoshopped multiple pictures of the same local smoothly together to create seemless, photorealistic images despite the fact that they were taken at significantly different times (and thus under widely erratic lighting). That's tricky. But I suppose you get good at it when you go to art school. Here's one of them -- see the rest here.

2. Kristof. I'm lazy. Someone who disagrees with him/his sources point out to me why he is wrong. If anyone cares to disagree.