{"id":8206,"date":"2012-01-31T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2012-01-29T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:55:23","slug":"tuesday-various-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8206","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/netflix-is-pretty-sure-it-has-no-future-in-dvds,68317\">Netflix is pretty sure it has no future in DVDs<\/a>. You know, I like streaming and on-demand, but the selection is still not that great, relatively speaking. If Netflix could ensure the same level of selection and quality with streaming as with the physical DVDs&#8230;well, I&#8217;d still occasionally be annoyed they were most often DVDs without special features of any kind, but I&#8217;d be more willing to switch over to streaming-only. (If the high cost of having both doesn&#8217;t force the issue for me at some near-future point.) But Netflix can&#8217;t promise that. Some of it is out of their hands &#8212; studios are covetous of their movies and shows, and some (like HBO) see Netflix, maybe rightly, as a direct competitor. So I really do hope Netflix doesn&#8217;t continue their push towards streaming-and-only-streaming, that they realize it wasn&#8217;t <i>just<\/i> the Qwiskter <i>name<\/i> that upset customers. I want a wide and varied selection of movies and shows. I don&#8217;t want more of &#8220;You can&#8217;t watch that, but have you ever tried <i>this<\/i>&#8230;?&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jan\/25\/indonesia-kick-woman-ghost?CMP=twt_fd\">Indonesian man arrested for kicking woman he thought was a ghost<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\" title=\"Warren Ellis\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jadsinternational.com\/the_avengers.html\">smell like a superhero<\/a>? [<a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/\" title=\"Whedonesque\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Twitter is the contemporary postcard\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsocial updates that are limited by size, but not imagination. For a month, with a billion stamps, our correspondent moved his tweets from the laptop to the post office, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/article\/twitter-by-post\">and rediscovered the joy of mail<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Basil Fawlty Impersonator Chat:\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dfJtyC0UHa8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2011_12_02.html#021746\">Mark Evanier notes<\/a>, &#8220;There are literally more professional impersonators of Basil Fawlty around than there were episodes of <i>Fawlty Towers<\/i>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix is pretty sure it has no future in DVDs. You know, I like streaming and on-demand, but the selection is still not that great, relatively speaking. If Netflix could ensure the same level of selection and quality with streaming as with the physical DVDs&#8230;well, I&#8217;d still occasionally be annoyed they were most often DVDs &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8206\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[20,44,14,211,37,17,32,10,142,39],"class_list":["post-8206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-comics","tag-mail","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-news","tag-tv","tag-twitter","tag-various","tag-video","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}