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For the Forbes... Forbes - Seeing the effects of Seattle's 15 an hour minimum wage No one at all has ever doubted that it is possible to increase employment and the minimum wage at the same time. The impact of the general economy is usually going to be larger than the impact of the minimum wage. The impact of that general economy could mean that employment rises, stays the same or falls, whatever happens to the minimum wage. But that’s not the interesting thing we’d like to know. Which is, what is the effect of raising the minimum wage on unemployment? Freed from the impacts of everything else happening in the economy? And there the standard answer is that it will raise unemployment and no, no one has managed to come up with a convincing case against this standard wisdom. Do note what actually happened in that general economy over that same time period. The US unemployment rate fell, over that year, from 6.6% to 5.6%. Seatac’s performance is, including the usual boundaries for error, actually the same as the US economy’s. Which isn’t all that surprising really as the minimum wage rise at Seatac affected 1,500 people (yes, that’s all) and we’d not expect to see any effect at all in macroeconomic figures from so trivial a change. However, we are seeing changes in the rather larger case of Seattle itself, as I predicted we would: Restaurants are closing at higher than normal rates. And Seattle is already a fairly high wage place: As Don Boudreaux likes to point out one of the reasons we don’t see large job losses (as opposed to small ones) from rises in the minimum wage is because we’ve had a minimum wage for a long time and have already lost a lot of jobs as a result. And there’s more such reporting going on too: Human labor really is an economic good like pretty much all of the others. Raise the price and the demand for it will drop (another way of putting this is that human labor is not a Giffen Good). Please do note though what is the prediction. Not that there’s going to be a wiping out of employment opportunities, nor that the economy of Seattle is going to become a howling wasteland. Rather, that less human labor will be employed at $15 an hour than would have been employed if the minimum wage had not risen to that amount. And for people who would like to have a job but now cannot find one that’s bad news.

Whose Line Is It Anyway. It's come a long way since its early days, first as a radio show and then tv on channel 4.. Although it's kind of amusing to see how half the rotating comedian guests are still involved 25 years on.

Because... Cats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRUU_0LonTY

A piece of world news that I'm sure will provide some happiness to a few people.. (who aren't all burned out, jaded and cynical...) EpicTimes - The Casts of Broadways The Lion King and Aladdin Got Stuck At The Airport - Naturally, They Had A Sing-Off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajHZWDP_Vk

Well, I think we can say that's a pick up line...

Because sometimes, you just have to wax nostalgic with the cheesy spy spoofs of the 60's.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQwJQkEh2QY

Eh, there's still not much to go on. It'll likely be Bethesda style writing, so that'll mostly be a let down with some potentially interesting/quirky bits. As to the rest of the game, I'll wait to find out more about it before I jump onto the hype or hate trail.

Interview with Chris Avellone, and damn it, this really makes me curse Sega again for not going ahead with AP2. http://www.thatonevideogamer.com/featured/tovg-extra-spotlight-interview-with-chris-avellone-by-gerry-martin/]ThatOneVideoGamer - Spotlight Interview with Chris Avellone

For the quirky.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tl0czTWYoc

Some brief DE Mankind Divided stuff.. GamesRadar - Deus Ex Boss Fights

I think Dwayne Johnson is charismatic and funny. But I worry that - as he's a fairly big action star - the plan is to make him the action star of the movie. One of the best things about the original is that for all of Jack Burton's macho posturing, Wang Chi and Egg Shen were 1000 times more competent. Yeah there's a reason he's there and ultimately gets things right (its all in the reflexes) but...I have a feeling that a remake made carelessly will have none of the charm of the original. Exactly, part of the fun was that Jack Burton believes he's the hero, when he's just the sidekick. While from everything I've seen suggests that Dwayne Johnson would have fun playing that, whether the studios would actually allow a "major" action star to have that role is another thing. I would half expect them to shift it so that he becomes the actual hero of the story, with Wang Chi as the plucky sidekick. And that would be disappointing. Although that news has made me listen/watch to this again : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xiAbDkXDgg

For the sleep apnea front... Worlds First hoseless, cordless, maskless, battery-powered CPAP device

For the movie interest... https://vimeo.com/129314425 Edit: And may it turn out to be what kills the shakey-cam in Hollywood..