Pretty wow, eh:

JCN Japan Corporate News Network - TOPPAN and Sony Successfully Develop 25GB Paper Disc: "TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD (TSE: 7911) and Sony Corporation (TSE: 6758) today announce the successful development of a 25GB paper disc based on Blu-ray Disc technology. Details will be announced at the Optical Data Storage 2004 conference to be held from April 18th to April 21st at Monterey, California. Using the disc-structure of Blu-ray Disc technology, the new paper disc has a total weight that is 51% paper. The two companies jointly began this optical disc project approximately a year ago. Blu-ray Disc is commonly known for allowing more than 2 hours of high-definition program recording. Hideaki Kawai, Managing Director, Head of Corporate R&D Division, TOPPAN CO., LTD commented: 'Using printing technology on paper allows a high level of artistic label printing on the optical disc. Since a paper disc can be cut by scissors easily, it is simple to preserve data security when disposing of the disc'."

According to Lee Siegel, a "television critic", with reference to the Daily Show's completely awesome and totally fucking hillarious political comedy:

The New Republic Online: Laugh Deter: "The marriage of comedy and politics is even more unhealthy than the marriage of church and state."

He goes on to argue, making references to Stalin and other harsh regimes, that openly liberal comedians are somehow "ideologically" unfunny. Seigel also remarks that "Nixon put comedy on steroids, but none of the comics who took him as their target, from George Carlin to Robert Klein, actually got indignant about his policies the way a smug Bill Maher gets indignant about Bush's policies. " Sure, nothing political about George Carlin... ? [rant] Lee Seigel, you are a total fucking idiot. I don't know what this article was supposed to be, but it sure didn't look like the work an experienced critic of entertainment. Was this an attempt at punditry? P.S. to Lee Seigel: Peppering your article with french and latin expressions is not funny. It does not impress me. Nor would it impress the average television viewer. I wonder if it would even impress the average New Republic reader. Frankly, it pisses me off. It especially pisses me off when the non-English phrases serve no necessary purpose in the sentences where they occur. If someone told you that this is a sophisticated writing tactic, they lied; it is only the habit of pricks. [/rant]