I finally got a chance to watch some of TV shows cluttering the Tivo, and one of them was this past week’s Alias. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’m going to ruin it for you and let you know that the whole premise of the show was “ice-five”, which is either an homage to “ice-nine” in Kurt Vonnegut’s excellent Cat’s Cradle, or a cheesy rip-off. I have a feeling they meant to go for the former, but it ended up much more the latter, using only the “ice-nine” from the story, and skipping out on all of the sarcasm and irony encirlcing the Books of Bokonon (Although I guess Marshall could qualify as the midget Newt Hoenikker).