from kcd – A web­comic of romance, sar­casm, math, and lan­guage – By Randall Munroe

AP has selected Colbert as its Celebrity of the Year, which makes a lot more sense than the former KGB officer chosen by Time magazine.

“It is truly an honor to be named the Associated Press’ Celebrity of the Year. Best of all, this makes me the offi­cial front-runner for next year’s Drug-Fueled Downward Spiral of the year. P.S. Look for my baby bump this spring!”
—Stephen Colbert

Industry insider blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, among others, is announcing that The Colbert Report and The Daily Show by Jon Stewart will be returning to the air starting January 7, 2008. Finally I can start paying atten­tion to the news of the world again! Without these two around making reg­ular com­men­tary on world events, watching the news was like chain-smoking unfil­tered cig­a­rettes. Thanks, Universe!

Extremist Muslims and Right-Wing Westerners can agree on one and only one socio­cul­tural phe­nom­enon: hating gay people. It’s painful for the mod­er­ates of both sides to accept, but it is a reality that must be con­fronted by intel­li­gent people on all sides before any real, pos­i­tive, pro­gres­sive change can be real­is­ti­cally forged.

Found this off this blog:

Oh the trou­bles of the rich and nar­cis­sistic….

$49,267 mort­gages
$16,000 clothes
$102,000 enter­tain­ment, gifts and vaca­tions
$4,758 dining out
$35,000 for child and spousal sup­port
$ 0savings and invest­ments (all fig­ures monthly spending)

Quick some­body tell Chris Crocker!

Most people saw this coming years ago.

At 10:59 a.m., a cheer went up on trading room floor

Is that in Canadian or American dol­lars?
“It didn’t really matter,” Mr. Feig says with a laugh. “It’s the same price either way.”

The Colbert Report has cer­tainly made its influ­ence. Like all intel­li­gent beings, the Internet can also laugh at itself…. check these out:

“Go Outside. Membership is Free.” – www.getafirstlife.com

“Aren’t you tired of all of those people out there trying to grab all of these fake friends online? It’s all about how many people can I pre­tend to be friends with to make myself feel better. Welcome to a better way…” – snubster.com

“Helping you find where other people aren’t.” – www.isolatr.com

“There comes a time when a stu­dent must look beyond the face of things.” – www.assbook.com

“Poking fun at web 2.0 named web­sites.” – rdiculous.com

“Sites orga­nized in dia­bol­ical order.” – yankovic.org

Thanks to Jake Coyle (AP).

This should make things even more inter­esting…

Just got back from another night of Fringing here in Toronto. Yesterday we saw a one-man show by Chris Gibbs, who is fan­tastic and very engaging, highly intro­spec­tive and almost dan­ger­ously (to him­self) funny. We actu­ally ended up there thinking we were going to see “An Inconvenient Musical”. Turned out we had mixed up the show times! No regrets though, this Englishman is a fine come­dian and writer. In his show “Gibberish”, Chris takes his obvi­ously nat­ural obser­va­tional qual­i­ties and mashes them up with a good helping of utter irrev­er­ence, all while man­aging to blow a couple of bal­loons on stage.

Tonight we caught “F[_]ck Off and Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry“, a one-woman show by Sara Bynoe. Absolutely bril­liant! She takes you on a bright and cheerful journey through the dark and morose and highly self-referential jungle of teenage angst poetry. It’s absolutely, deliri­ously hilar­ious for anyone, espe­cially those of us who were grungers and mis­fits, who were trag­i­cally poetic and poet­i­cally bored, in the ’90′s.

Tomorrow, it’s another day, another play.
Or 2 or 3…