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You need to see the video of Stephen presenting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, aired on CSPAN only moments ago, if you’ve been even vaguely aware of politics for the past year. Stephen, as well as whomever invited him to speak, may be getting a visit from some hired thugs tonight. Check it out at Crooks and Liars and read more at Editor & Publisher:

A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close.

I’m sure there will be many heated discussions in the Oval Office beginning with “who the hell is this Colbert guy?”

Edit: Available at vSocial. It was working, now it says “This video is still being prepared for viewing, and will be available soon.” Guess they didn’t want to handle the traffic? Back to Youtube I go.

You’re probably sick of “Snakes on a Plane” and I’m with you there, brother. Before “so bad it’s good” movies were unintentional, but now comes a movie changing based on pre-release Internet discussion. You can bet there will be imitators trying to drum up the same type of buzz in the future. Ignoring all of that, Samuel L. Jackson sure knows how to git-r-done:

We were talking about the snake hits being better than just seeing a snake strike. In old cowboy movies you’d see a rattlesnake, hear a rattle and then there’s the snake and it kind of struck off-screen, and you never saw the snake actually hit anybody. So you get actual snake hits, and if you got two people who are making love in an airplane bathroom, you just don’t show a snake and show them kissing and hear them screaming. You know, girl’s got her tit out, let the snake hit it! That’s what people are there to see. Show people running all over the plane getting trampled. Show people getting impaled on broken pieces of plane. We have the capability, so do it.

State of the art, my friends.

At last, a video podcast (videocast? vodcast?) that I could see myself watching on a regular basis. It’s actually funny! Not just Internet funny either. Be sure to hear his views on rating explicit Internet sites.

Most searches are done on Sunday

Fewest searches are done on Tuesdays

Most searches are done at 10pm

Fewest searches are done at 5am/6am (tie)

My name is my 7th most frequent query

Exciting!

Also, you can star items in your Search History to add them to your bookmarks, then add labels and notes. Not quite at the level of being able to select results in the regular results view (or a feature I’d use) but something.

Definitely.

If you want to allow Google to track your search history and have something for when the feds come a-knockin’, you need to enable personalized search.

A CNET article titled Kids outsmart Web filters brought back many memories:

Web proxies are almost as old as the Internet itself as a means to route Web traffic through an anonymous domain name or circumvent content-filters, and they’ve long been the territory of corporate networks and the tech savvy seeking privacy. Nowadays, an increasing number of teenagers are setting up proxies on home PCs to sidestep school filtering traps, in addition to using free proxies set up on the Web, according to technologists at schools and at content-filtering technology providers.

Back in high school I believe my class was among the first to go toe-to-toe on a daily basis with the school’s network administrator. For a long time there weren’t any problems and many a lunch hour was spent in nerd bliss with some friends on a bank of computers playing Utopia until it was blocked. Then someone discovered that if you changed a number in the web browser proxy address you could access any site (the number changed occasionally and quickly spread by word-of-mouth).

Later I took a class from the network admin. We’d provide free labor in exchange for getting a quarter of a CISCO certification. Also we mostly played games and didn’t do any work. Kids these days setting up their own proxies with their “actual computer knowledge” don’t know how good they have it.

This flashback has been brought to you by OK Soda.

MacWorld has an article up about running Windows XP, Windows 2000, Fedora Core, Debian simultaneously on a Mac Mini with Parallels Workstation, and they’re even usable. Crazy stuff:

Four VMs plus OS X, and all were usable and stable (once I had them all running), on what is the second-cheapest computer that Apple currently sells. Fairly amazing. Even more impressive is the fact that the VMs continue to operate in the background—switching from one to the other doesn’t pause that VM until its reactivated. The Linux systems, for instance, were both showing screensavers while I was working in the XP VM. Despite all of that, the frontmost VM, even if that “VM” was OS X itself, was always responsive to clicks, and I didn’t notice any dropped characters when typing, or other annoying slowdowns. I can’t wait to see what will be possible on the high-end Macs when they’re released this fall.

I’ve been heavily considering getting a MacBook when I have funds but now I find this article from the 8th relating how a man was assaulted in a San Francisco coffee shop and had his Powerbook stolen:

“I looked up, and I saw this guy leaning into me as if he was asking a question,” he said. “I leaned forward, and out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone fiddling with the computer cord. I tried to stand up, and as I stepped back, he stabbed me in the chest.”

The attack marked a violent turn in a wave of crime that has hit the city — the “hot spots” frequented by wireless laptop users are becoming hot spots for laptop robberies.

The 40-year-old San Francisco victim of the March 16 attack suffered a partially collapsed lung and was hospitalized for six days. The two suspects fled with his Apple PowerBook, worth $2,500.

Eek!

Comedian Jim Gaffigan will be coming to Oregon State for Mom’s Weekend on May 6th. Good job, guys, this is definitely a step up from former Saturday Night Live “weren’t ever really all that funny” people like David Spade and Jim Breuer. Gaffigan seems to be pretty popular, not mega-famous like your Seinfelds or your Rocks and not a has-been either. I saw a bit of his Comedy Central special and his material seemed like most of the standard funny observational stuff. Not as funny to me as some other comedians but he’s mom-safe so overall it was a very good choice. For most people I’m guessing they might know him from the Sierra Mist commercials.

I already bought my tickets and they weren’t cheap, though they will make a nice Mother’s Day gift. He just better be good.

Coolest mom ever, seriously. I got these in a special Easter package yesterday. I’ve had a few and my breath tingles with gaming nostalgia (which smells surprisingly minty).

On another note, I need to spend more time with my crappy digital camera. It’s a miracle whenever I can manage to take a non-blurry photo, and when the in-focus set overlaps with the decent shots it’s divine intervention.

Whenever there’s a hubbub in the rest of the country you can be sure there’s something going on in Corvallis, or maybe even long after most everyone else has lost interest (see: Iraq War). Dan Crall has a post about a rally against HR 4437 with information on the proceedings and lots of photos. Certainly a beautiful day for a display of free speech.

My favorite image would have to be one from the Barometer’s article concerning the protest that included a sign reading “Are tacos illegal?” Really makes you think… about tacos.