It’s official – STEPHEN WON!!!!! Final Vote Counts (Top 5) as of September 8, 2006 2:32 PM CST: Round 1- Stephen Colbert híd 17231725 [53%] Zrínyi híd 2062649 [6%] Pató Pál – híd 1805118 [6%] Bethlen Gábor – híd 1735587 [5%] Hunyadi Mátyás – híd 1478020 [5%] Round 2- Stephen Colbert híd 93163 [25%] Jon [...]
The latest mission for members of the Colbert Nation: “The Stephen Colbert Bridge”
August 24, 2006 By
Apparently in Hungary, I’m NoFactZone.neten
August 24, 2006 By
I hate to be such a navel gazer, but could one of my Hungarian friends do a basic translation of this piece of a Hungarian article? Apparently I’m linked there and talked about, but since I can’t read Hungarian for all I know they’re insulting my mama or something. Thanks! Hídnévbörleszk: három halott Colbert és [...]
Hungarians chime in on bridge
August 24, 2006 By
The coolest thing about all this incessant babbling this blog has done about the Stephen Colbert Bridge is that I’ve seemed to have collected a rather sizable group of Hungarian readers. Which is incredibly fun. Today I received a very interesting comment from one of these Hungarian readers: szutyok said: August 24th, 2006 at 2:33 [...]
REPOST FROM COLBERTNATION.COM: Important! It’s about the bridge
August 22, 2006 By
This is a message from Avery, webmaster of ColbertNation.com, originally published on the ColbertNation.com forum: Hey guys! Good news and other good news! The GOOD NEWS is obviously that we’ve demonstrated complete and utter superiority over the Hungarian bridge voting process. Being number one by 15 million is some kind of achievement! I have to [...]
Stephen Colbert Can Dominate My Web Anytime
August 22, 2006 By
As regular readers know, I do my best as webmaster of this site to be a loud voice screaming the “Dance, Monkey, Dance!” commands Calls to Action for the Colbert Nation by Stephen Colbert. Colbert’s numerous recent internet antics are profiled in this article, featured today in the Huffington Post: Stephen Colbert’s Web Dominance: How [...]
Update on the “Stephen Colbert Bridge”
August 22, 2006 By
Right before the Colbert Nation crashed the Hungarian servers the first time, an interesting error message showed up. Now that same error message is showing up when trying to reach the “Vote” or “Toplista” part of the Hungarian site: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /vote on this server. Apache/1.3.26 Server at www.m0hid.gov.hu Port [...]
Perl Scripts Doing Their Job To Elect “Stephen Colbert Bridge”
August 21, 2006 By
Today in the Daily Kos, Six Degrees of Aaron blogged a bit about the bridge voting: Stephen Colbert Bridge Becoming a Reality by Six Degrees of Aaron Mon Aug 21, 2006 at 07:34:35 AM PDT Get ready for the wingnuts to go crazy if this holds. Why? Because it is going to show to them [...]
Holy Szent!
August 20, 2006 By
Here’s the Toplista for the Bridge vote as of this morning: Toplista Az indoklás megtekintéséhez kattintson a névre! Stephen Colbert híd 3018675 [17%] Zrínyi híd 2026970 [11%] Pató Pál – híd 1805064 [10%] Bethlen Gábor – híd 1687928 [9%] Hunyadi Mátyás – híd 1443787 [8%] Perl-Script híd 1369309 [8%] Mészáros híd 1037103 [6%] Batthyány Lajos [...]
The Hungarian Media Responds: Hungarians Respond to “Stephen Colbert Bridge” Movement (Part II)
August 19, 2006 By
Apparently the Hungarian Media doesn’t particularly care for Stephen Colbert, either. Pesticide.hu (“The Daily Dish of Cosmopolitan Hungary”) has this to say about the “Stephen Colbert Bridge” idea: Media Notes (III): American Comic’s Bridge Too Far We previously reported, the Hungarian government’s online poll to find a name for the new bridge over the Danube [...]
Huh? You can’t tell me Colbert has gotten NO votes since yesterday!
August 17, 2006 By
Here was the vote tally for the “Stephen Colbert híd” yesterday: 8/16/2006 6:56 PM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 438,049 [3%] Here’s the vote tally now: 8/17/2006 1:19 PM CST – Stephen Colbert híd 438,049 [3%] So what’s the deal? They’ve stopped counting our votes? I know I’ve voted at least once since then.