The NASA shuttle launch scheduled for Tuesday morning has been postponed due to weather.  NASA will try again to launch the shuttle Discovery to the international space station on Wednesday. Be sure to catch the shuttle launch live to the right on our homepage. Thunderstorms developed late Monday night around the launch site, and lightning [...]

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Stephen Colbert has shaved his head in order to demonstrate his support for our U.S. troops in Iraq. Colbert declared a victory in Iraq and had the word “Iraq” shaved onto the side of his head.  Before about about 300 U.S. soldiers who had gathered for the taping of the Colbert Report on Sunday, Colbert [...]

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Truthiness: “truth that comes from the gut, not books” (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” October 2005) Yahoo says, sure, why not? “We believe there’s some legitimacy to the idea that people want sources of information that only confirm and never contradict their world view.” Today, they introduced us to Ideological Search. This new [...]

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Earlier this year, NASA announced an online contest to name a room (A.K.A. a “node”) at the I.S.S. (International Space Station). With a strong effort from his fans,  the name “Colbert” pummeled NASA’s suggested names: Serenity, Earthrise, Legacy, and Venture. On Tuesday’s edition of  “The Colbert Report,” astronaut Sunita Williams stated that NASA had decided [...]

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Google is buying Twitter. No they’re not. Yes, they are. Well, maybe. That’s basically how the blogosphere looks this morning. Earlier today, TechCrunch reported that Google was in “late stage talks” to buy Twitter.  Quote: “Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter.” Not so fast.  They later posted that the talks were actually [...]

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Stephen Colbert was featured on The Today Show this morning. Meredith Viera asked him if he Twittered. Colbert responded: “I have Twatted.” I bet they didn’t see that one coming (in case you aren’t familiar with the term, see here). Have a look:

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