I’ll be honest; this isn’t really the top 10 anything. Depending on how you count, it’s the top 9, top 15, or top 16 things I want changed about the iPod Touch. But I hear people like top 10 lists, so I thought I’d try to entice you with the post title. With that caveat, [...]

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Dear Television People:

When you air a standard definition (“SD”) program on your lovely high definition (“HD”) channel, please do me a big favor. Do not stretch it out to fit the screen. Just give it to me in SD, and let me decide what to do with it.

The biggest perpetrators of this horrific mistake (big [...]

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Okay. Here are the dates I will be in these places. Please let me know if you want to hang out with me in these places, and if you want to give me a place to sleep in these places (except Seattle, Boston, and DC, where I already have a place to stay).

July 31-August 1:
I [...]

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*But not really.Michael Gerson is very worried about vulgarity in politics:In 2006, after a long monologue about a dog and its vomit, Franken impersonated the deceased Sen. Strom Thurmond as saying: “Yeah, I screwed a woman who was vomiting once.” He once proposed a television sketch about a female CBS reporter being drugged and raped. [...]

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Billy West, voice of Fry, the Professor, Dr. Zoidberg, and probably the Hypnotoad, has a weird interview at the Onion’s A.V. Club (warning—some salty language there!). It includes audio clips. Whatever, Billy West rules.

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And it gets more amusing every time.

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Well, I wouldn’t go so far as INCREDIBLE. But it was pretty good. Ed Norton is always good, and he was good in this. Tim Roth is always good and a little weird, and he was good and a little weird in this. Liv Tyler played the same sweet, soft-spoken, boring woman she has played [...]

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