I wonder if there's any connection between Dan Pink's Free Agent Nation rise of work-at-home consultants, TiVo and the rise of nifty television programming for fairly intelligent people (Naked Chef, Junkyard Wars, Monster Garage, Trading Spaces, The West Wing etc. etc.). I know that there are a lot of days that I'll put on what TiVo's recorded in the last week for background noise. And I'm not entirely sure how much my perception of this "rise of good television" is related to my growing older and how much is just my losing my taste for crap TV. I can't stand Will and Grace, for instance, or almost any other sitcom these days. I still enjoy Friends every so often, but for the most part... Ugh.