Okay, so Becky from NetFlixFan posted a comment to a previous entry which got me thinkin bout the ol’ NF and some minor things that keep me from total stupid-grin fanboyism.

I’m a NetFlix addict. I always have between 490 and 500 movies in my queue. A lot of these at the moment are TV shows on DVD, so it’s important that certain items in my list always arrive in order (I’m in the middle of watching The Shield, and just finished a run of Buffy (still one of the most amazing shows in TV history, I think), so imagine my annoyance when instead of The Shield season 2 arriving, yesterday I got the second season of OZ, skipping season 2 and 3 of the first show and season 1 of Oz entirely.

Now, I’m sure the ones that were skipped are among the more popular rentals, but sending me season 2 of a show that I haven’t seen season 1 of doesn’t make any kind of human sense.

So perhaps NF can introduce some kind of “lock” mechanism on their queue page so that discs that are ‘locked together’ must be delivered in order. I’d much rather get a standalone movie from further down in my list and come back to the series discs than have to either return-and-readd or keep 4 discs while I cycle the one that came through on time in the hopes that the ones that I actually wanted would come through.

Reed, are you listening?

212 REPRAZENT YO!

I just got an email from “aw-confirm@ebay.com” that says i need to “confirm my itentity”…hmmm, I wonder if its a scam.

The sad thing is right now there’s some 60 year old grandma entering her credit card info in form on a spoofed server in order to make sure eBay has her correct” itentity”.

Learn to spell, people.

From the “why has this taken so long” department, apparently HP has figured out a way for DVD burneres to etch artwork onto the tops of the media it writes to, so no more Sharpie hack-jobs or inkjet sticker disasters.

They call it LightScribe, which sounds for all the world like a ::wumpscut:: chorus, but maybe thats just me.

In the vein of “How You Remind Me Of Someday” (scary proof that Nickelback is in fact not only copying Creed, but copying themselves note-for-note), we now bring you Coldplay Vs Sum 41, proof that…well, that Sum41 sucks by ripping Coldplay off note-for-note.

As if you needed proof that Sum41 sucks.

[Nickelback via Brandon@Nintendorks]
[Coldplay vs Sum41 via Matt@Birdman, on Mishpucha]

Run don’t walk to to the trailer for the new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy flick.

May it be as solid an adaptation as Fellowship.

If someone would code a Mozilla plugin so that I could right-click an image and automagically upload it with one click to a predetermined spot on my web server via FTP I will love them forever and ever and name them George.

That is all.

Questionable Content

Ummm… iTunes? I thought it was a free download of the week…

Update: The track has been refreshed with the correct price, due to my merciless mockery. And nothing else!

For those who have not heard it yet, here’s new Orders latest addition to their oeuvre (tell ME I’m not a pretentious wordsmith), Kranky.

Is it me or is it halfway between True Faith and Accentuate The Positive (e-lim-inate the negative).

Maybe it’s just me.