The social networking website MySpace recently acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has removed a parody of Sen. Ted Stevens' obtuse description of the Internet as "not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes." (In the same remarks, the senator complained, "An internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday.") The parody had been posted on the TedStevensFanClub blog by Andrew Raff, a law-school graduate, who is also a member of a Brooklyn-based rock band called The Bosch. According to Wired magazine's online edition, the ditty had been heard by about 2,500 people before MySpace pulled the plug on it, telling Raff that it had received a "credible complaint of your violation of the MySpace Terms of Services." Stevens is the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee and is regarded as the Senate's most powerful figure affecting broadcasting regulation. Raff, in an email to Wired, maintained that he was not upset about MySpace removing his song -- "just curious as to why." Raff's song got additional exposure on Comedy Central's The Daily Show Wednesday night when Jon Stewart put it on the air, complete with a visual description of how the Internet "tubes" supposedly work.

And that, my friends, is why I won't touch myspace with a 10' pole. No matter how convienent it might be to have a myspace, I simply am not going to support something that is owned by the people who own Fox News.

Of course, since I buy gas, I suppose that is unavoidable.

Feeling: tired
Listening To: Poe (Conjure One): Center of the Sun (f/Conjure One)