Lonely picture of the year award goes to the Houston Chronicle, which pens a human-interest piece on how the 2009 digital TV transition is going to confuse the hell out of some people. By February 17, 2009, consumers will need to buy a digital converter box or new tuner to get their TV fix, and the paper estimates that 1.7 million homes in Texas alone are still using rabbit ears on standard definition sets:60 megahertz of freed spectrum from the transition will be used for wireless broadband, and 24 megahertz of spectrum will be assigned for emergency response. As we've previously noted, Uncle Sam has set aside more than a billion dollars (they stand to make more than $10 billion at auction) to give two $40 coupons to each American household to help them buy digital converter boxes.