The Colbert Report set its sights last night on internet privacy – skewering CEO Eric Schmidt, especially, for saying we’ll all need name changes someday.
The Colbert Report set its sights last night on internet privacy – skewering CEO Eric Schmidt, especially, for saying we’ll all need name changes someday.
Dean Kamen is both notoriously shy and uninterested when it comes to media appearances, but Stephen Colbert was able to lure him in with his earnest, unrelenting, right-wing agenda. And Kamen even brought his DARPA-funded bionic Luke Arm. Full video:
You heard it well. Colbert is launching tomorrow at 1.36am EDT (3.36pm today AEST) onboard the space shuttle Discovery, headed to the International Space Station. The mission objective, according to him: “Help slim down all those chubby astronauts”.
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?
You may recall that last month Stephen Colbert won NASA’s contest to name a new module in the International Space Station. You may also remember that NASA snubbed him and chose the name Tranquility.
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.
newVideoPlayer("/waitinggame.flv", 506, 423,""); We’ve heard Jon Stewart’s feelings. And now this, right before the Report started last night. And no, he’s not talking about shipping delays, nerds. But what he is talking about I have no idea. [Colbert]
