I normally can't stand singing competitions, but I'm finding The Voice surprisingly enjoyable. I'm also dangerously close to developing crushes on both Beverly McClellan and the country singer judge/mentor whose name escapes me (I never heard of him before the show).

I've been meaning to mention, about the Bones season finale, that I don't so much mind the whole "I'm pregnant and you're the father" thing, especially considering that the actress is pregnant, it's the whole years-of-UST-dragging-on-forever-till-you're-bored-with-the-whole-thing being supposedly "resolved" off screen. Not that I have a burning desire to see Bones and Booth make out, I just wish they'd done something more interesting on-screen. These are well established characters. They're the main characters on the show. I don't buy the whole no reaction thing on both their parts for two (?) whole episodes. I want the writers to give me *something* when they choose to drastically change a relationship between the two main characters in a show. I'm feeling rather meh about the whole thing, and that's down to the writers not doing the work, IMO.

Finally, the entertainment industry needs to get its head out of its ass and realize that their electronically available products have gone global. If it can be transmitted over the internet, it will be transmitted over the internet. Local distribution concepts may work for physical objects (to the extent that people choose to buy products in stores and not order them online), but when it comes to electronic media, it's an obsolete system, and instead of sending their platoon of lawyers and lobbyists to fight it, they need to get with the program and make the situation out here in the real world work for them.

I'm sick and tired of being actively prevented from legally purchasing items (that I can download for free much more easily) based on my billing address or location at time of attempted purchase, by the very corporations that are bitching about people "stealing" from them. If I give you my money, fucking take it already. I can't even imagine how many millions of people around the world are willing, able, and even eager to BUY ebooks, music, movies, etc., but end up downloading those things for free because the companies that hold the rights to them simply refuse to sell them, in a stupidly stubborn attempt to maintain a status quo that no longer exists.

On an unrelated, and more positive note, I think I might attend Wikimania 2011. :)