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The Name Game: In this March 3 clip, Stephen Colbert mobilizes his forces to name a module on the new space station. We now know how it turned out.
 

by Linda Holmes

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• Worth reading even if it's probably not true: Jacob Weisberg's Slate essay arguing that his experience with Amazon's Kindle 2 is evidence that "printed books, the most important artifacts of human civilization, are going to join newspapers and magazines on the road to obsolescence." Weisberg deserves special "wow" points for saying, apparently without irony, that an entire new publishing model could be oriented around "clever kids working from coffee shops in Brooklyn." He has not spent enough time in coffee shops in Brooklyn, let me humbly suggest.

• The New York Times has gathered a few writers to talk about why Sylvia Plath's story still resonates. While their thoughts are enlightening, they primarily focus on Plath's work, sort of missing the point that she is well known as a writer who committed suicide, even among people who couldn't tell you anything about her work at all. She has an almost folklore-tinged legacy as well as an actual literary one; it would have been interesting to hear an exploration of that.

The Colbert Nation scores another victory, Michael Sheen plays Tony Blair again, and the Woz rolls on, after the jump...

Note:

• Dennis Quaid and Michael Sheen are set to play Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in a new HBO movie written and directed by Peter Morgan, who wrote Frost/Nixon. You'll recall that Sheen also played Blair in The Queen, so this is certainly a lot of folks who are on familiar territory.

• Here's a bizarre little tale about the very fine line between wrestling and theater. Or whether there is a line. Or who can find the line. Or who pays for the line.

• Fans of HBO's True Blood might enjoy this very witty advertising idea that's being tried out in New Zealand.

• Note to anyone planning a vote to name anything: if you don't leave yourself a loophole, it's going to wind up being named after Stephen Colbert, because that is how those people roll. Just ask NASA.

• It's always nice when the alumni come back, especially when they have wildly outclassed the school since graduation. See: Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson returning to American Idol.

Ignore:

• If you're not already watching Dancing With The Stars, there's no reason to start now, but note that Apple founder Steve Wozniak has now outlasted former Bond girl Denise Richards, even with a smashed foot, a pulled hamstring, and the second-lowest score in the show's history. Does this mean nerds love Woz? It does. But it also says nothing nice about the way people feel about Denise Richards.

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8:54 - March 25, 2009

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