Calling it Quitster
If you were the one person in America looking forward to that first Qwikster envelope in your mail, forget it. After watching angry subscribers flee in droves and the value of its stock drop by nearly two-thirds over the past three months, Netflix has decided that splitting its streaming-video and DVD-by-mail businesses wasn’t such a hot idea after all.
It’s a belated step in the right direction, but at the rate Netflix is burning its brand we half expect them to enact Blockbuster-style late fees.
Bad brains: The same factors that increase your risk of heart disease may also damage your brain, columnist Dr. Elizabeth Smoots writes (Print only).
That’s funny — we had no idea that watching “Toddlers and Tiaras” and “Fox and Friends” raised your cholesterol.
O the humanity: Silvertip fans and others who attend events at Comcast Arena will be delighted to know that arena staff are reinstalling cup holders on seat backs.
And it’s not a moment too soon, because no one wants to watch a grown man cry after spilling his $8 cup of beer.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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