Month: June 2010

What Has Netflix Found For You?

One of the great things about Netflix (we’re subscribers, love it) is its ability to have it recommend shows and movies based on what you rated. We primarily watch a ton of TV shows from Netflix as we just find them more entertaining many times (and it’s easier to watch in shorter chunks of time). I was talking to Owen at Mug Revolution the other day about Netflix stuff, and made me wonder what Netflix is introducing to everybody else. So here are a few that Netflix said we’d like and we certainly have.

  • Spooks: Holy crap this is a brilliantly written show that needs to hurry up and get its tenth season up and going. If you want great spy action, suspense, etc.., this is a great show for you. Just don’t get too attached to any character in the show, as nobody’s safe from getting killed/removed is some awful way. Netflix doesn’t have all the seasons — you’ll have to find other ways to get those.
  • Hustle: We just started watching this one and have enjoyed it so far.
  • Foyle’s War is one of the greatest detective dramas I’ve ever seen. Great show, and glad they put out a seventh series (just finished watching it last night).
  • Chuck: Never watched this show on TV as it came on during a time where we were watching something else (usually House), but I’m really enjoying this show.
  • Hamish Macbeth was an entertaining show, though the last season got a bit weird.
  • Pushing Daises: That was obviously suggested to us because we five-starred Wonderfalls and we pretty much like most of what Bryan Fuller has done.
  • The Lost Room could have easily been a much longer mini-series, but it was still quite interesting.

That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. So what gems did you not know about had it not been for Netflix?

Time Killer For The Day

Put in a couple twitter usernames, and have your avatars battle it out. Wasn’t even remotely what I expected and different skills are given depending on the colors of your avatar. The twitter avator for this blog’s feed does pretty well at random encounters, but I’d bet that not too many folks are going to be able to beat HackBend’s avatar as it creamed me and most of what I threw at it. The BendBlogs avatar just kind of sat there and did nothing, but held on pretty well in a defensive role.

Reading Material

Sometimes It’s Cheaper to Sneaker-net It

Is it cheaper to upload all your data to Amazon’s cloud storage service over the Internet or FedEx them the hard drives and let them do it? Amazon will figure out the cheapest way to do it.

Biker Dudes Vs. The Metric System

Reality TV at its finest…

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Hilary Rosen worked for the RIAA from 1987 to 2003 and was instrumentally responsible for a bunch of lawsuits against music fans as well as pushing through the DMCA, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to ever make it through Congress. Now she’s doing public relations work for BP. Needless to say, The Huff Post is officially cutting ties with her.

I don’t mean a thing…

if it ain’t got that swing.

The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half.

Listening to Metallica and Guns and Roses tunes with a swing feel is frickin’ awesome.

Time Killer For The Day

Think like a programmer, an you can make it through Lightbot 2.0.

Time Killer For the Day

Distraction is a delightful little game — a delightfully evil little game (I want to kill that rocket-toting sheep).

Reading Material