Rant

This morning I was trying to send one of my friends a message on Facebook and I got the following message: Warning! Your account could be disabled. You are using this feature to spam other users. Continued misuse of Facebook's features will result in your account being disabled. If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page. Really?

Tomorrow, most people in the United States will be celebrating our Independence Day. However, today should be one of mourning. Today marks the 30th anniversary of the "landmark United States Supreme Court decision that defined the power of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over "indecent" material as applied to broadcasting" (1) from the case Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation. This case revolved around a WBAI-FM broadcast of the recently deceased George Carlin's routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television". A father who had his young son in the care with him was upset that his son heard the broadcast during an afternoon drive in 1973 and alerted the FCC. There had already been other court cases deciding that obscenities were not protected by the First Amendment, but the FCC was seeking the ability to regulate what it considered indecent content which previously had not been tested.

In the vein of my last post I find myself asking why I am bothering to maintain this site. In the last week or so I have gotten a whopping 20 unique hits. I am willing to bet that 19 of those are search engine bots or spammers with the remaining hit coming from myself. I have no site traffic, I have no subscribers to my blog (both feed counts are my own for monitoring purposes - one for work and home) and generally have nothing important to say. Yet, I continue to update this blog 3-4 four times a month and spend countless hours tweaking functions of my site.

On the StarWars.com site they revealed a new character for the upcoming CGI Clone Wars series. This new character is listed as a Togruta "eager to prove herself as a worthy Padawan to her bold Master, Anakin Skywalker." WTF? And at what point does Anakin prove himself worthy of having a Padawan? What's even more frustrating is that Genndy Tartakovsky's great series Star Wars: Clone Wars has pretty much been wiped off of the Star Wars site like it never existed. Oh well. I guess time will tell whether this new series will be worth watching. So far my vote is "No."

Right about the time it started getting cold enough around her that I went outside as long as possible I found myself wanting to play video games to pass the time. It seemed to correspond to the time when most of my favorite shows were on hiatus either from the Writers Guild of America strike or simply for their winter break. Either way, I am by no means someone who you would consider a gamer. I'm stuck in the days of Nintendo and Sega Genesis.