Ball of Confusion - Dollhouse

The series premier episode of Dollhouse last week was only so so. However, last night's episode was excellent. There are at least four distinct storylines now. The first storyline is the depiction of the organization of ethically questionable practices called "Dollhouse", the second is a about the FBI agent who is unofficially trying to uncover it and find the star doll for reasons still unknown, a third is that said star doll is becoming self-aware and each "treatment" is less complete than the last, and the fourth is about the escaped killer doll named "Alpha". Dollhouse was developed by Joss Whedon, who also did Firefly and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I'm saddened that it's on Fox. The network hardly lifted a finger to promote it and the ratings reflect it. If it weren't for Whedon fan sites, I doubt anyone would have tuned in. I heard about it from a fan. Looks to me like Fox is repeating the Firefly mistake. It will probably be yanked before it finds an audience but I will surely watch it until then.

Upgraded my Paint Shop Pro software this morning because my original version won't work on Vista. It was time anyway. In the instructions, I found the following:

Please note: due to the wide variety of Corel software, you might see the terms "Purchase Key", "Unlock Key" and "Serial Number" used in installation instructions for some products. They all mean the same thing and describe the same activation procedure.

Note to Corel from CrabAppleLane: Why? Decide on one, use from this day forward, eliminate need for this note, and eliminate needless potential confusion all in one move. No charge.

Quote of the Day

I agree that concentration is a bad thing, but that's what capitalism brings with it. The animal wants to keep eating and growing larger and larger. We could have easily prevented these massive mergers, but our free market philosophy prevented that from even being an option. And now we're seeing what happens when banks are "too big to fail."

Justin Gardner, Donklephant

Blog of the day here.

Quote from said blog: "We're churning out quality television for you lovely people!"

Not quality internet, though. That entry is the latest. It's from August of last year. -Rob