Dudes and dudettes, it was a tragic/celebratory Thursday here at TiFaux. On the one hand, there was no access to the site all day. On the other hand, it was because we exceded our bandwidth. (Which is neat.) On the negative side, I had a bunch of stuff I wanted to post about. On the positive, I can post about it now.

• NBC is bringing back comedy Thursdays, with My Name is Earl, The Office, Scrubs, and 30 Rock. Speaking of which, I hope everyone caught 30 Rock on Wednesday. Best episode yet. Kenneth Ellen the page went toe-to-toe with Alec Baldwin and held his ground. This show is starting to be as good as I want it to be.
• Which, of course, I still can't say for Studio 60. I've been obsessively reading the comments to The Hater's similar tirade (and, yes, I commented, I couldn't help it), and my anger is starting to spill over from the show itself to the Studio 60 apologists. It reminds me of the feeling you get trying to debate Republicans, or ideologues of any stripe (Studio 60 apologists tend to be on the very liberal end of the spectrum, but it's the same idea). They're not actually critiquing the show, they're focused on the idea of the show, and they seem to think that people who criticize the show are against "intelligent" entertainment, which is so far from the truth it's practically on another planet. Television is absolutely capable of being better than this. Just watch better shows. They're out there, I promise. But I have to stop now, or I'm going to start crying or hitting something.
• On a more cheerful note, the actor who plays Hiro on Heroes is a computer effects programmer for ILM. This is surprising to absolutely no one, but increases the actor's charmingness by a factor of four.
• Also from Wired: "Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so." That's Joss Whedon's 6-word story; other luminaries write more, but Joss's is my favorite.
• The "Best New Show" sidebar poll is racking up some serious votes, in our meagre standards. It was quite a horse race for a while between Dexter and Heroes. I feel guilty: I voted for Heroes on two different computers. I just couldn't bear to see it beaten by Showtime. So you have my permission to go ahead and use your coworkers' computers to stack the votes whatever way you want. And will someone please give some love to 30 Rock?
• Dan is a graphing genius.

I'm so glad we're back.