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Good news for those of you who are fans of the great Comedy Central show Reno 9-11, Netflix wants to start remaking the show after it was already canceled two years ago. While nothing is completely official, the show’s producers have actively been discussing the idea with Netflix, who recently announced their intention to make original streaming content for their service.
I don’t know about you guys, but I hope this one ends up panning out.
The Netflix rate hike is “literally the worst thing that has ever happened to white people.” Jason Alexander at Funny or Die hopes to raise money to fight this disaster. -via Laughing Squid
Finally, a brilliant way to satifsy your creative urges and entertain the people at Netflix who have to process all of the returns. And what better way to express your displeasure over the movie?
The folks over at Doodlers Anonymous have been gathering photos of Netflix envelopes that have been improved upon. You can still submit yours – but if you do, be sure to let us know in the comments so we can check it out.
Link via Laughing Squid
Finally, a simple way to support our favorite bankrupt celebrity, by waxing nostalgic over all of his mediocre films. CageFlix is definitely one of the most interesting apps I’ve seen for Netflix, but that doesn’t mean I recommend it…
Cageflix is the internet’s leading Nicolas-Cage-centric, batch queue management tool for Netflix. It adds all availalable DVDs of Nicolas Cage movies to your Netflix queue.
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Video Mailbox was a precursor to Netflix that began in 1987, but ended before it hit the big time.
Video Mailbox was created by Peter A. Bobley in the late 1980’s! Rather than DVDs, they used VHS tapes, but the business model was the same: you pay a monthly subscription fee, you pick a queue of movies, and then you watch them, return them, and repeat the cycle!
Shaktronics provides some great links if you’re interested in investigating further, including its history and a comment thread that ostensibly features a comment from Video Mailbox’s creator.
Via Shaktronics
The New York Times has a set of infographics showing the popularity of certain movies distributed in the zip codes of several cities, based on their incidence of Netflix rental. Netflix provided this data on the fifty most popular movies of 2009. Hover over each map to see what movies were the most popular in neighborhoods of a city. The infographic above shows the distribution of Yes Man rentals in Atlanta, Georgia.
Link via Fast Company
A new website called Rent the Runway is betting that it can do for haute couture what Netflix did for movies:
“It was so easy. You just wear it and drop it back in the mail to them,” Ms. Harris said. “I don’t spend $2,000 on a dress regularly, so it’s nice to be able to wear some of the more expensive brands I wouldn’t be able to buy otherwise. And instead of just buying one or two dresses for this season, I can still have a lot of things to wear.”
Rent the Runway was founded by two recent Harvard Business School graduates, Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Carter Fleiss. Ms. Hyman said she got the idea for the service last year after watching her younger sister agonize over whether to buy an expensive new outfit to wear to a wedding.
“Here was this young girl who loves fashion and was willing to spend a good portion of her salary on a dress that she’s only going to wear once or twice, and I thought, there has to be a solution for this,” said Ms. Hyman.
Jenna Wortham of The New York Times has the scoop: Link (Photo: Todd Heisler/NY Times)
