Instant Gratification: What’s New To Stream on Netflix This Week | WGQ

popculturebrain:

Including Highlander, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, 30 Days, and many Viacom shows (MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon).

A few of the Viacom shows added: Bo Burnham Words Words Words, The Hard Times of RJ Burger, iCarly, John Oliver’s NY Stand Up Show, Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time, Spongebob, The Faily Odd Parents, The Hills, Important Things With Demetri Martin, Jersey Shore, The Sarah Silverman Program, The Benson Interruption, Celebrity Rehab, and more.

Comcast blocking Netflix! Tell FCC to stop the abuse and protect the open Internet! Sign the petition

New York Times, posted tonight.

 Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts Internet video companies at a competitive disadvantage.

Level 3, which helps to deliver Netflix’s streaming movies, said Comcast had effectively erected a tollbooth that “threatens the open Internet,” and indicated that it would seek government intervention…

Net neutrality, which posits that Internet traffic should be free of any interference from network operators like Comcast, is thought to be on the December agenda of the Federal Communications Commission.

…under pressure from Comcast, “Level 3 agreed to the terms, under protest, in order to ensure customers did not experience any disruptions,” Mr. Stortz said…Mr. Stortz implied that Comcast was taking the action to impair companies that compete with its own cable and Internet services.


Procrastination, Netflix, and Psychology (via You Are Not So Smart)

psychotherapy:

Netflix reveals something about your own behavior you should have noticed by now, something which keeps getting between you and the things you want to accomplish.

If you have Netflix, especially if you stream it to your TV, you tend to gradually accumulate a cache of hundreds of films you think you’ll watch one day. This is a bigger deal than you think.

Take a look at your queue. Why are there so damn many documentaries and dramatic epics collecting virtual dust in there? By now you could draw the cover art to “Dead Man Walking” from memory. Why do you keep passing over it?

Psychologists actually know the answer to this question, to why you keep adding movies you will never watch to your growing collection of future rentals, and its the same reason you believe you will eventually do what’s best for yourself in all the other parts of your life, but rarely do…