I knew it was more prophetic than anything else.

Growing up I was a huge fan of James Bond Jr. I took pictures of the TV and pretended they were real and that I met him, even though he was a cartoon. It was a James Bond for the kids, and while I never quite warmed up to 007 in adulthood, it was still a pretty cool cartoon back in the day. Of course before I got to James Bond Jr. I would have to get through one of more irritating cartoons of my day.

Lately, Google and Yahoo! have apparently been fighting over the internet and search capabilities and all that crap. I prefer Google only because it's cleaner and has less crap on the start page, but who are we to pick sides? Just users and consumers. Who really needs us? Well yesterday Yahoo stepped it up and bought a company called Konfabulator. More annoying names in the mix, right? So what do these guys do? Well they make this small programs that help deliver web content without having to use a browser. No more Internet Explorer or Netscape, now these little things can give you all you need. And what are they called? Widgets.

Widget the World Watcher was a half-hour cartoon that took the sweet-hearted nurture of a human being and mixed it with the freakishly disproportionate body of an alien. Widget was on Earth to protect the world's environment in the most non-violent way. It taught you that the world is so valuable that aliens have to come and stop us from killing ourselves. Why do they care though? They only want to preserve the planet until they run out of food and decide to come and eat us all. Why else? Widget had some help from three human kids that he didn't eat and a disembodied head and hands. I knew that Widget wasn't an alien too. He was a man-made creature that was made to preserve the world, but in failing, his race was blasted into space, where they were expected to die off. No sir. One survived and he was babysitting the planet until his family came back around orbit and ate this town like a rabid dog.

The first step is already in place people. Widgets are being installed on your computers. You people with Macs may not even know it, but you can download Widget the World Watcher 1.0 for your computer. That's great, huh? One step at a time. What do you need your family for? Get the widgets, but don't come crying to me when you're fighting off purple aliens with giant heads that get along more with animals than with humans. Why's that? Because the aliens will return the planet to the animals. Bison will run free and birds will fly in the breeze, and where will you be? Oh you'll be dead because that's what happens and that's what I write about when the week is slow and there's no good story ideas on my mind. I will write conspiracy theories based on cartoons and technology companies that no one cares about.

On a realistic note, I really scraped the bottom of the obscurity barrel on this one, eh? Do you remember Widget? I don't think anyone else watched it. That's 65 episodes you lost out on homes. Get Ebay-in' and catch up with my childhood. Oh that was a worthless story. This is what we in the biz call "filler."