For anyone who watches The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, you'll notice that it is once again off the air all week. It seems like the writer's strike has given Jon a taste for doing nothing and ever since he's practically taken every other week off. He must really hate his job.

When the show is on the air, they never even have a Friday episode. How can they call it the daily show if it is only on just over half of the days in a week? It should be called "The Four Days Every Other Week Show with Jon Stewart."

Of course, if Jon's not working then Colbert won't work either and the Colbert Report goes off the air. What am I supposed to do all week? Where am I supposed to get my news?

I went over to The Daily Show's official website to see if there was a way to contact the show, to let them know about my name change idea. Although there was no immediately apparent way to contact them, there was an option to "sign in" or "join the community." I thought "well if I can't contact the show, at least I can drum up support for my idea in the community," so I signed up.

Once you've joined the community, you will find yourself logged in with absolutely nothing new that you can do. No forum, no chat room, no comments form, no way to interact with any kind of "community." You're just logged in with no benefit.

So it's on to "Plan B." I'm going to write a book about something political, get invited on the show, and then tell Jon Stewart directly that he is lazy and needs to rename his show.

Wanted it what happens when writers go on strike and studio executive have to hire their own children to write the movies for them. Seriously, this movie is something straight out of the mind of a hyperactive 8 year old.

I spent most of the movie laughing hysterically. Like when the car is heading straight for a police barricade so Angelina Jolie pulls a hard turn hits a crack in the road (yes, a crack) which causes the car to do a flip OVER the police barricade onto the street on the other side, speeding off in a different direction than the direction which it was flying, breaking all known laws of physics in the process.

What is amazing is the fact that this isn't a forgivable one time offense. The characters in Wanted flip their cars around more than Jason Statham in The Transporter, with ever increasing amounts of absurdity in their stunts.

But Wanted isn't about driving. No, it's about some guy who finds out he was destined to become an assassin and then is trained by an elite fraternity to have all sorts of super human killing powers. By the way, it only takes six weeks to go from asthmatic cubicle nerd to badass assassin - for anyone who is interested all it takes it being tied to a chair and getting beat up a lot then passing out in baths of donut glaze.

Probably the most ridiculous part of the movie is where Angelina Jolie (who they paid just enough to be in the movie, but not enough to speak any lines) teaches the cubicle nerd how to "curve bullets." We're not even talking slight curves either, these guys can make bullets take 90 degree turns mid flight and kill people around corners. They can shoot suicidal bullets in complete circles. They can curve bullets from one end of the city to the other around obstacles, people, trains - whatever.

It sounds like something out of The Matrix, but unfortunately it's set in the real world. The only explanation offered for their super-human bullet curving powers is that they can make their hearts beat at 400 time per minute which somehow - instead of instantly killing them - makes all time slow down around them. Absurdity level high.

I kept thinking this was a comedy, but according to what I've seen on the Internet and heard from other people, this was apparently a serious action movie. The attempts that it did make at humor were just depressing and tragic.

In short, I would definitely recommend seeing this movie. It has earned its place in my top five worst movies ever seen.

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Why is it that the pinnacle of any technology is always when it can be fit inside a pen? Furthermore, if mobile computing was so great then why on earth would we still be using pens in the first place? Why in pluperfect hell would you want a super advanced computer only to run Windows XP on it? Does our future really involve us continuing to use an already woefully outdated operating system that is sure to be incapable of coping with the types of awesome stuff we will be throwing at it in 2010?

I want to see the meeting where they dreamt this up. "What could we combine with the most advanced mobile computer in the world to make it super awesome?"

"I know - how about a ballpoint pen!"

It's like inventing the internal combustion engine and then trying to integrate it into a horse.

I feel like this video should be the punch-line to a bad blond joke. "What would Dell invent if it were run by blondes?" It belongs with solar powered flashlights, helicopters with ejector seats, and submarines with screen doors.

The video is so bad that I was half expecting a blue screen at the end with credit card logos inviting me to call now so that I could order my very own penputer for 3 easy payments of $29.95!

Now if only they could build watches with calculators in them, I think we'd pretty much be caught up with Star Trek.