Here's one to think about

If you're looking for the Heroes review of "Better Halves", click here.

Yahoo's homepage features some sort of open question mechanism whereby anonymous users can post questions and other users post responses. I can't explain it much more simply than that. So if you wanted to know how to get a grease stain out of a shirt and didn't know that soap or dishwashing soap works (not to mention bleach or your regular laundry detergent), you can post that question and people will seemingly respond. Google has a similar feature, as do probably most sites.

Anyway, I was going on the Internet just now and saw that one of the "featured" questions asked "Anyone know how to make a space ship out of cardboard boxes for a 6 year old?" Now, I didn't bother to click on the answers until just now to write this entry, but my immediate thought was (and remains), why would you ask this? First, you can tape boxes together and make it look like a house and call it a rocket and a six year old won't really know the difference (you can always say it was a rocket from the 40s). The one person who did respond suggested going to Sears and asking for a refrigerator box.

But more to the point: why wouldn't this user simply do a yahoo or google search for the answer? I'm sure more than one person has posted a suggestion or how to on their website or blog. You could always search for the Halloween costumes on college humor and I'm sure you can see how they did it out of beer boxes or something along those lines. But, I guess if you didn't think of using the Internet search engines first, you can always take the easy way out and post a question.

My Heroes Review of Better Halves:
I also saw Heroes tonight; I don't think I will write more on it later because I am extremely busy this week, but my initial impression is that I was not impressed. As one of the earlier commentator-posters had correctly predicted, Professor X's neighbor turns out to be a spy for the man (the cheerleader's father, the Agent). Tonight's Heroes' episode "Better Halves" focused mostly on Niki/Ikin and her continued delve into a psychotic break. Maybe they finally killed her off, but I doubt that's the case. There was some meandering with Hiro and his friend and Peter and the stoner artist, but both were pretty much minor stories this week. We also meet Niki/Ikin's husband who at least attempts to be a good guy (although probably not in the eyes of the law). And so the show continues its cheerleader storyline (as well as reverting back to the 22 Short Films about Springfield method of storytelling), we even got a heartfelt, yet deceptively false (and yes, predictable) look into Claire-bear's bio-parents. At least she's beginning to suspect that her agent dad isn't quite the Major Dad like the one on Jericho.

Regardless of this so-so episode (probably 3rd or 4th down the list if I were ranking them so far), next week's preview seems much better as it appears the Heroes, for better or worse, will be "exposed" in various ways. Noting that tonight's is the sixth episode and I had originally gave this show a six-episode run, I will also say that Heroes has captured my attention enough to merit another seven episode commitment (half-season). I'm not going to be quite as generous as NBC in saying that I will give it a full season run (yet), but I also wouldn't be that surprised if that winds up being the case. We'll see which way next week proves me then.

Tags: yahoo, nbc, heroes, better halves