{"id":1931,"date":"2010-01-22T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:01:43","slug":"reverse-baader-meinhof-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/reverse-baader-meinhof-syndrome","title":{"rendered":"Reverse Baader-Meinhof Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part One<\/strong>
\nSome time ago I renewed my subscription to Netflix<\/a> in order to utilize their streaming video service which is offered “free” to all their subscribers. The service is nice but the selection of movies available to Watch Instantly<\/a> (their term for internet streaming) is a very small subset of the movies that they have on DVD. Because I’m interested to know of any additions to this subset, I subscribe to their RSS feed for\u00c2\u00a0New choices to watch instantly<\/a>. With that subscription I receive notification in my web browser whenever a movie is made available for Instant viewing. This morning there were approximately 20 new movies available which I quickly scrolled through, clicking open a new tab for each that interested me. One of these was Yojimbo<\/a> by the legendary Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa<\/a>, who also directed the seminal Seven Samarai<\/a>. After reading the description, I clicked the “Add to Instant Queue” button to save it for later viewing. Whenever you add a movie to your queue on Netflix they suggest 10 more related movies that they think you might like. This time, they showed me these (click to enlarge the image):<\/p>\n

\"Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n

My eyes were immediately drawn to one of the movies on the bottom and in the middle, The Beider Meinhof Complex<\/a>. The name was somewhat familiar so I read the description but it didn’t interest me so I closed the window.<\/p>\n

Part Two<\/strong>
\nEvery day I review the main page of links at reddit.com<\/a>, an link aggregator where I often find interesting articles, pictures<\/a> and video. This morning was no exception as I opened a dozen tabs to peruse one by one. When I got near the bottom of the page, I was a little freaked to see this:<\/p>\n

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Sure enough, the article<\/a> exactly described the reverse of\u00c2\u00a0what had just happened to me<\/strong> seconds before as I read the link description. Sometimes life is surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes life is surreal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[1381,358,1383,1283,1382,1384],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanation","category-tales","tag-baader-meinhof","tag-kurmaskie","tag-kurosawa","tag-netflix","tag-streaming","tag-weird"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t