So many things to occupy time, so little time for them to occupy.

Here’s an inter­esting inter­view I came across with author Salman Rushdie

For the other geeks among us, you might find PC World’s list of the Top 50 Tech Visionaries inspiring.

Here, you can listen to an audio ver­sion of a Q&A between Stephen Colbert, Steve Carrell and Ann Hathaway (listen to the audio online by clicking on the link in the middle there).

Lastly, but def­i­nitely not leastly, here’s a tribute to the fun­niest guy who ever lived who died this past weekend, George Carlin. The world was fun­nier with ya, George, we’ll miss your sick, twisted, bril­liant brain. Here he is, in his own words…

Frito-Lay‘s new Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos, which are the “offi­cial sponsor” of The Colbert Report‘s cov­erage of the pres­i­den­tial pri­maries, have earned praise from PETA…

Confused? Did you follow along the “brawl” sto­ry­line? Here’s your chance to catch up:

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!

Yes, it’s an hour long, and yes it’s def­i­nitely worth it.

We’ve been taping, each night, monday through thursday, the new episodes of The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. Then, over the course of the week and the weekend, we watch them all.

It’s a fab system we’ve devel­oped. We don’t miss the antics of the shows, and yet we don’t end up cut­ting into our sleep time to watch them. And, as a bonus, we can fast for­ward through all the com­mer­cials! Ahh, VCRs are not obso­lete yet.

I have to say that Colbert has taken the won­derful con­cepts that were devel­oped on the Daily Show, and placed them among the heavens above. The guy is not just an incred­ibly funny come­dian, he’s also the sharpest mind on TV since Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Sheer genius. Each episode is packed all the way through with punches and jabs and acute obser­va­tions on topics as diverse as Sigmund Freud’s birthday, to Feminine Sexual Emplowerment, to Robotic Deadly Bears.

His schtick, so amaz­ingly played out by him, of being a neo-conservative, ultra right wing, xeno­phobic, homo­phobic, religious-fundamentalist is just flaw­lessly por­trayed – except for the few times each night when he breaks out into a grin mid-sentence.

I am just so happy that there is SOME quality on TV nowa­days. Being more of a book-ish person, TV is usu­ally a very dis­ap­pointing and boring waste of time for me. But when it’s Colbert time, his Lincolnish despite for the fac­tin­ista make my stomach hurt in sweet pain from unstop­pable laughter.

Don’t miss the new site: The Colbert Nation