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Stephen Colbert won the bridge-naming content. The conditions are that if he is dead and is fluent in Hungarian, the Northern M0 Danube bridge will be named after him, according to Hungarian Law, but apparently that law could be changed.

I can't believe the number of newspapers that published an article about Condoleeza Rice and Peter McKay being an item or not being an item. I'm not sure who is stupider, the media, or the readers who clearly love to eat up their crap. Most likely it started by a bunch of bloggers joking around, posting pictures of the two holding hands, etc... and the mass media jumped on. Colbert sure ripped in the media last night on this issue making fun of both the media for writing articles about how others were writing about it, and the gossip readers, by pretending to be one himself in his usual way.

Stephen Colbert was all over digg.com today, with 3 stories on the front page last time I checked. The first was related to this, Colbert's "The Word" segment, which last night was "Wikiality":

That article sparked a flurry of page vandalism (as it is called) on Wikipedia, part of which was stopped by this guy, a Wikipedia administrator from Vancouver. There is a detailed account of what went down at Wikipedia here.

Finally there was a 60 minutes piece on Stephen Colbert, which included a very tiny one-on-one intervivew:

Well a busy day for Colbert, I'm still amazed that he was featured in 3 of the top front-page digg articles for the day.

This was one of the funniest Better Know a District segments that I have seen. Youtube removed it but it's available for Canadians here: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-colbert-report/best-of/better-know-a-district/#clip16539.