pretty funny, tho. link.

Stephen Colbert's getting his own show (link via Atrios). Awesome. It'll air after the Daily Show, and the plans is for it to go after the pundit half of the cable news establishment. I'm expecting an absurdist O'Reilly Factor with the egomania somehow ratcheted up.

I don't know if there are four nights' worth of material available per week to power that concept -- but as a fan of the impossibly funny Strangers With Candy, I'm eager to find out. The scene from season 2 where Colbert mimes a clown committing suicide reduces me to drooling, hysterical, drowning laughter pretty reliably.

i've only spent a couple of days browsing around its site and options, but backpackit seems like a pretty amazing thing. i wish i'd known about it when i was planning for the trip to italy - as it was i used del.ici.ous as an organizational tool then to keep track of stuff, and that worked okay, but not as coherent and easy-to-use as i would have liked.

anyway backpack is kind of hard to explain, but basically it's a personal organizer that lets you organize projects by yourself or with a group, that sends you reminders, and...well, lifehacker explains it better:

Backpack’s a fun combination wiki, weblog, to-do list and calendar that’s featureful but not overwhelming. Make a page that contains check-offable lists, images, dated notes, and files about a project or idea. Link pages and share them with others for collaborative editing. Set up reminders that get sent to your email or mobile device about project deliverables - or to water the plants or pay the rent. Subscribe to page changes in your newsreader, and reminders in your calendar applicaton.

Created by 37 Signals, the same folks who built Basecamp, Backpack sports the Signals’ signature simple, good-looking, pleasure-to-use design sense. In short, Backpack’s a perfect online replacement (or supplement) to that fancy notebook you’ve been scribbling in.

i'll be using it to plan for the move to chicago!

had to take the quiz:

You are the Consummate Hipster. Newbies bow to
you, everyone else just stares, as you swagger
down the street with "Little Green
Bag" stuck in your head.


What Kind of Hipster Are You?
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though i believe the quiz might be a bit suspect, as i had to look up what exactly "little green bag" was.

hardest question to answer: Smite one of the following: it took a good 15 seconds before i chose freddie prinze jr over evangelical christians and george bush.

if i've got my addresses right, this giant snow penis was only blocks from my dear grandparents' house in laramie, wy. grandpa, i hope you weren't too traumatized!
(and that is the first and last time i ever intend to use "giant snow penis" and "grandparents" together in the same sentence.)

(via wonkette)