See now, I think this could be a lucrative service if they could just figure out how to package it. I, for one, would happily sign up for that kind of photoshopping treatment if I could in some manner have it projected over me (with nullifying fields or something so I didn't stick out past my sides) as a regular course of events. Perhaps in a small portable, blackberry-like device that I just set on the desk in front of me and it photoshops in realtime as I move and speak?

Ideally it would also display broccoli whenever I eat a truffle.

There is some, albeit limted, reaction to the Couric story that does not come under the heading of "yawning non-surprise."

There are some among us, who practice the craft of journalism, that feel genuine resentment over this story ... towards CBS and CBS News, that apparently proposed the change ... towards Couric who, for all her 'star power,' accepted the proposal ... and towards what the whole thing implies about their attitude, regarding their viewers and what those viewers look for in an anchor ...

Whatever criticism I - as a news viewer - may have had about Couric in the past, whatever objections I may have had about her promotion to an anchor desk ... 'she should take off a little weight off' was NOT one of them ...

Beth, I predict that we'll someday have avatars that will go forth and represent us in live, 3D manner, thereby completing our age-old desire to never again have any actual face-to-face contact with anyone outside our immediate family (and even that is subject to some specific restrictions).

Jeff, when I implied that the general public was blasé about this revelation, it's not because I think folks don't care...it's just that the reputation of certain media types is such that this specific incident was not simply unsuprising but, in fact, inevitable.

The more cynical among us might simply observe that we're now seeing The Game played with a transparency it's previously lacked up to this point. The man behind the curtain has been revealed, and instead of pulling levers controlling arcane devices, he has a mouse controlling sophisticated software.