colbert tonite - spliced "fake interview" with Tom Delay vgood to me bcs not just verbal, also got great typical (of Colbert intrvws) facial expressions on Delay as in response to Colbert - nonplussed etc. subtly done well.

and enjoyed seeing Steven Johnson, who I know from bks & blog (freq~ linkd by k), re recent bk Everthing Bad is Good For You. well recently in paper ? ~
Colbert asked about shooting games saying that is how he sees the world all the time and we see him lkg at Johnson as a target w videogame sound effects. "now you know how it feels to be me."

so, though I am not regularly in the mood --awake, light, interested-- to watch, the Report always proves delightful it does.

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unrelated I liked the blogger handling of downtime today with a re-direct to a mssg about it on page w url blogger.com../sorry.htm. and as rg said today to rb who said "sorry" (uncharacteristically! personal!) about bringing us a large invoiced purchase to box up immediately for pick-up by a messenger-courier, I'll go from pretty mad to aw-ing if someone says sorry.
wasn't mad at bloggr anyway, already pleased just with the notice that appeared on blogger.status :
Thursday, June 08, 2006 -For many users, Blogger will have been extremely slow or down for most of the morning. I'll forgive most if acknowleged, in fact I'll have warm feelings about the recognition ~ the cnnxn: oh..yes it was down and slow and then down then slow for me. you know how it was for me! We continue to work on fixes for this problem and hope to have it resolved as quickly as possible.
Update (4:45p): We are planning another infrastructure overhaul to address the significant problems we've been having in the past several days.Update (6:59p): We've made another change that has improved performance, but we are also planning to make additional changes this evening.Posted by Jason at 11:14 PDT