Jon also gives a little look into some of the other insane projects the military has finally decided to stop funding, and unfortunately, they all look awesome. Check out Wyatt Cenac's segment on military gadgets below. [Comedy Central]

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Viacom's argument is that their channels "provide 20 percent of their audience" yet they only "receive about 2.5 percent of the fees Time Warner pays," so they're asking for what amounts to a rate increase of 23 cents per subscriber. Time Warner says that "the root of this is that the advertising market has gone soft and Viacom is desperate" and it's no time to be making people pay more for TV.

Viacom's PR campaign, so far, is decidedly brilliant: They've taken out full page ads in the Times and other papers today with characters like Dora the Explorer crying because children can't watch her starting tomorrow. Time Warner's response is pretty savvy too. Time Warner spokesman Alexander Dudley said that they'll "be telling our customers exactly where they can go to see these programs online...We’ll also be telling them how they can hook up their PCs to a television set.”

That's right—the cable company will be telling people to use Hulu. That's a first. True, they're still doing it over Time Warner's pipes, but it's pretty shocking coming from a cable company/ISP, who, like every other TV/ISP service provider, has traditionally pushed people in various ways to use the internet less and their TV services more. In fact, Time Warner has squawked before that they hate the amount of content—like The Hills and The Daily Show, the very programs at issue here—that broadcasters are putting online for free. Now they're sending people to them.

This is also the same Time Warner that's capping the amount of data people can use a month in certain markets, which, survey says, is a network management practice likely to spread—in large part due to the amount of strain on broadband networks coming from streaming video now.

And this Time Warner's going to tell people to stream more video? Maybe they're just going to bump your broadband bill instead, or this is a bluff. So, don't worry guys, you'll totally be able to watch Comedy Central while you're hungover tomorrow. (Probably.) [NY Times via NewTeeVee]

* Don't you dare ask about that again.

PC fanboys, you just really can't win.

OMG, JON STEWART IS AN APPLE FANBOY. I BET APPLE PAYS THE DAILY SHOW FOR STUFF LIKE THIS. REMOVE JOBS' BUTT FROM YOUR LIPS, STEWART. I'M GONNA START WATCHING THE COLBERT REPORT INSTEAD. –Adam Frucci

Sounds like the opportunity for a drinking game: one shot every time he mentions the word Vista or Xbox 360, two if he namedrops the Zune, and a whole bottle if he mentions iPhone or Apple by name. Guaranteed to make you laugh or get you hammered, either way. – Matt Buchanan

Gates to appear on 'The Daily Show' for Vista launch [CNET]

Sure, we report on plenty of goofy and questionable inventions here at the Giz, but this "Ten Fucking Years: Inventions" clip from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart takes it one step beyond even our wildest fever dreams. – Charlie White

Funny Inventions You Never Knew About [Tech E Blog]