Mark Zuckerberg is the Modern Prometheus

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/17/iran-restores-blocks-on-facebook-twitter/2824479/

Facebook has become Frankenstein's monster, and Mark Zuckerberg is its creator. Never has a social networking application stirred up such controversy: government agencies have relentlessly mined its cornucopia of intel, companies have fired employees over unflattering party photos, and old flames on Facebook draw away their former lovers from existing faithful relationships with flaxen cords. As a computer science student, I can't help but nervously feel the watchful eyes of my friends (and potentially my future employers) as I post a status on my Facebook page. On the other hand, Facebook is only an application distributed over several parallel processing servers that understands no ethics but only bits. No one forces anyone to post controversial Facebook statuses (except sometimes your “friends” will tag you in unflattering photos from last year's Halloween party.) The only power Facebook has to affect anyone's life is the power that the individual willingly gives to it.

Sabba-video-game-phobia, or the fear of playing video games on the Sabbath.

After a nice lunch at my wife’s grandparents’ house a few Sundays ago, we were greatly discouraged from playing Sonic All-Stars Racing over a blue-tooth connection on our iOS devices in fear of being “irreverent” on the Sabbath.  Instead of committing the cardinal sin of playing video games on Sundays, we decided to honor the Mosaic law and pull out an old Parcheesi board.  With great respect to her wonderful grandparents, I do not understand what the difference is between playing a round of Parcheesi on a kitchen table and playing Sonic All-Stars Racing over a blue-tooth connection.  Both can provide entertainment to a familial group of four, but one is done through a technological medium and the other is done through a less sophisticated cardboard medium.  Neither game is inappropriate for the young whipper-snappers, and both games are equally capable of turning good people into terrible sports.  For those who do ban playing video games on the Sabbath, do some introspection and ponder the difference between a (G-rated) video game and a board game.  Both engage multiple players simultaneously, both encourage fun competition, and both are potentially great ways to spend time with family.  Both sound like great Sabbath-day activities to me.