Many gathered around the tube for Stephen Colbert’s feisty interview with everyone’s favourite reclusive children’s book author, Maurice Sendak. It’s always a delight when old people weight in on new technology, and the highlight of the interview was Sendak’s eloquent and nuanced condemnation of the ebook revolution. More »
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The 2009 space odyssey is over. After endless troubles, the epic adventure that started in March has come to a happy ending: The Stephen Colbert treadmill has been installed in the International Space Station. Here you have the video proof.
The Stephen Colbert treadmill looks tiny, but there isn’t a lot of space to go around up there on the ISS. How does this work?
After almost getting a toilet named after him, Stephen Colbert will be surprised to know that he’s getting his name on a treadmill instead. Our surprise? NASA picked the EIGHTH most popular name instead.
The mystery and pseudo-controversy surrounding the ISS’s unnamed node ends this Tuesday, when astronaut Sunita Williams will go on The Colbert Report to tell the world what NASA has decided to do.
And we have reached a new level of meta-ness.
Stephen Colbert may have won NASA’s poll to rename a module on the International Space Station, but NASA doesn’t really want to go through with it. Instead, they might just name a toilet after him.
It happened. No Serenity, no naked Uhura pin up, or any other sillypants sci-fi nonsense: Steve Colbert won NASA’s contest to name the next ISS module, after he asked his viewers to vote for him.
