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I'd say he's overlooking some very enterprising truck stop meth labs and online diploma mills, but yeah, let's say Netflix is in the top five most underestimated.—JS

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This is undoubtedly mankind's greatest achievement. Curing polio and going to the moon can lick my balls.—JM

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A brief update on the latest tempest in the Net Neutrality debate – entertaining for the number of times it's mentioned that regulators negotiate with the industry they're regulating, or the industry agrees to regulators' level of authority.—JS

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I'll flood the Internet with links decrying 3D movies if I have to! (I've got young Nate Kruse on my side at least – bless him.)—JS

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More sharp criticism for 3D movies, centered on Christopher Nolan's announcement that his third Batman film won't be shot in 3D because the process interferes with the brightness and contrast of the image.—JS

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Another thorough examination of how the internet is blurring the line between what's public and private, and how that's hindering the ability to escape and outgrow one's past.—BK

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You think you get upset when Google Maps gives you directions that mire you in traffic? Imagine if you were involved in a contentious border dispute with the neighboring country and Google kept moving the lines!—JS

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I'm on vacation. I don't write blurbs on vacation. Just read for yourself and find out what this piece is about, all right?—JM

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Worried your new iPhone may lead you down a path toward gadget-obsessed distraction? A set of tools can help you resist temptation and restore focus.—JS

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Why baby boomers may prove to be a surprisingly receptive demographic for the iPad.—BK

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Defending Steve Jobs against claims of exaggerated marketing-speak becomes a really interesting discussion on optics and the limits of human vision.—JS

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Now that it appears I am weeks away from purchasing my first iPhone, this sort of thing is a big fear lingering in the back of my mind.—BK

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I like the optimism, that government could do a better job managing the disaster, or that Americans would believe it could. But what does Obama have to lose? Most people either blame him for the spill already, or assume he's plotting to take over every major company.—JS

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There has never been a legitimate argument against the use of instant replay in sports, and now its absence has cost a young pitcher a perfect game and a good umpire the reputation it took a lifetime to build.—JM

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I would have called the piece "Humans: Why We Triumphed," because the likelihood of a non-human ever reading it seems pretty low. Other than that, though: pretty interesting stuff.—JM

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After years of teasing the poor bastard, we might have him to thank after all.—JS

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You don't have to be particularly (or even remotely) religiously interested to find stuff like this, well, interesting.—JM

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Worms, hacking, and global botnets – no this isn't another profile of Crispin Glover.—JS

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It's a shame Singel takes such a pee-drinking, tinfoil-hat-wearing, shrill tone, because some of the privacy concerns he cites would sound downright reasonable coming from a normal person.—JS

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Even if you won't take anyone else's word for it that the latest airport security screening technology is a useless waste of money, you've got to believe the guy running airport security in Israel. Israel!—JS

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A Hulu app coming for iPad? Why again was leaving Flash off the device such a terrible idea?—JS

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You hear that, people of Southern California? It's not my fault... it's science.—JM

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"But once you try one, you won't be able to resist." The title and that line pretty much sum it up, huh?—BK

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Nice points about technology looking dated in movies, but my favorite part is referring to this year's onslaught of remakes as a pop-culture stop-loss program.—JS

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A new book – "Appetite For America," by Stephen Fried – sounds like it couldn't possibly be more up my alley. Father's Day isn't that far away, you know...—JM

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A study of several Last Suppers painted over the last thousand years reveals that maybe The Cheesecake Factory isn't solely to blame for us all being so fat.—JM

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"It is likely the case that your teenagers do not actually like the terrible music you hear during those brief moments when they take their ear buds out." So there's hope...—JM

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If doctors will soon be able to print out a new kidney for an ailing kid, does that mean I'll also be able to print out a guilt-free veal chop?—JS

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We have finally realized the true potential of robotics. And sex.—JS

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ChatRoulette is the next big hit from the "social web" machine - like speed dating via webcam. Needless to say, it's overrun with perverts, crazies, and crazy perverts.—JS

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Get ready for Michael Bay movies to feel even more like a crack high.—JS

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Exhaustive trend analysis from one of the more user-friendly online dating sites out there. (Although, if you want the one that works, it isn't pretty but it's plentyoffish.com.)—JS

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Pretty interesting: partly for the stuff Facebook is doing; partly for the stuff they think it's worthwhile or important to do; and partly for how cool they think they are for doing it.—JS

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More than that, it's pretty dippy, considering we'll all know about the new device in about a week. (Or maybe Gawker was hoping for a lawsuit – now Apple admits there is a tablet to protect!)—JS

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Not even apples and oranges, I'd imagine. More like apples vs., um, blue space apples that cost a billion dollars.—JM

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Like sex, criminal trials, and just about everything else, spaceship battles in movies are completely unlike they would be in real life.—JS

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Turns out that Toby Young, that bald English one-trick-pony douchebag from "Top Chef," is actually an excellent writer and an even better cultural critic. Who knew?—JM

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The radio industry only recently has switched to a ratings-gathering methodology more sophisticated than "asking people to write down what they listen to." I'm completely serious.—JM

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Ah, the Singularity. We keep hearing it's coming, sometime soon (not yet, but soon). But what's it really going to do for us? And will there still be an "us?"—JS

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I haven't caught "The Daily Show" in a little while; I can only assume they're all over this story. Right?—JM

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This guy is desperate to show you how smart he is, and his "look how many words I know" writing style makes this a bit of a chore to get through. Still, any time somebody wants to analyze reality TV from a sociological standpoint, I am so there.—JM

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A.V. Club also has personal faves Ricky Jay and Richard Dawkins this week, but we've agreed not to overlink the same site too much and Levitt's the one debunking the TSA, rethinking the response to global warming, and talking about penis size. Advantage: Levitt!—JS

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Great. Now I have to sign up for a whole new two-year contract.—JS

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Studying teens, texting, and Facebook. Oddly, from a perspective of "how will these obsessions affect them in the workplace?" Like these kids will ever have jobs.—JS

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Yet another "technology will make us all stupider" article. Notable anyway for some fascinating information about brain science.—JS

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This piece is a little long and a little dry, but it's about Wikipedia. And I love Wikipedia. I mean, you want to know about the Maldives (just to pick something)? You go to Wikipedia, and BOOM! Now you know all you'll really ever need to know about the Maldives.—JM

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One expert says that but for the extinction of the dinosaurs, the planet would now be ruled by bipedal, humanoid reptiles. That'll teach us all to doubt Super Mario Brothers: The Movie!—JM

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Having fun with the suggestion feature on the Google search box. Short, but very entertaining.—BK

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Add the "Freakonomics" guys to the growing list of people who aren't exactly losing a ton of sleep over gloom-and-doom climate change predictions.—JM

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Are the breakdowns at CERN's Large Hadron Collider actually evidence that it is working perfectly? So perfectly that ripples backward in time are causing it to break?—JS

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Yeah, yeah; two football links. Quit whining, they're both good. In an excerpt from his new book of essays, Klosterman explains why he – and we – love football so damned much.—JM

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The answer to this question: yes, but just barely.—JM

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This explains the careers of Michael Cera and Seth Rogan (well, this, plus their considerable comedic talents. But still).—JM

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Turns out every new advance in communication, from the typewriter to the telephone to writing things down, was met with resistance and prophesies of doom, so maybe Twitter won't destroy the world after all.—JM

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Ignoring the brain trauma problem in retired players and hoping the problem goes away would be bad enough, but what the NFL is doing is even worse.—JM

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Dan "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons calls Twitterers "imbeciles." Nice link bait, Dan. For that, you win a shiny link!—JS

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It's not Tuesday morning anymore, but everything should still apply.—JM

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One of my favorite film blogs reiterates the arguments against a 3D revolution. (Keep beating that drum – we'll kill it yet!)—JS

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Wikipedia further restricts who can actually contribute to the database. Those chosen few tend toward arcane, humorless eradication of useful content by smaller contributors – which would be reason for revolt, if the other 95% of Wikipedia weren't so damn useful.—JS

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A list of quick, quippy jokes centered around a given topic of recent cultural interest? Somehow, I think it works for a Friday around here.—JS

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Yeah it does!—JM

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Believe it or not, the internet turned 40 this week. DJ Gallo has some thoughts about how today's sports world would be different if the internet had never come about...—JM

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Is Rock Band: The Beatles the ultimate sell-out, or a great new way to connect with their music? (Maybe it's just giving the fans what they want?)—JS

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Obviously Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson is in a class by himself, but there are 11 others to bear mentioning as well.—JM

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Some insight into why Craigslist.org still looks like the rest of the internet used to look ten years ago, yet manages to be one of the most successful websites anywhere.—JM

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Thought the advent of 16x9 TVs would kill the practice of "pan-and-scan" conversions? Think again!—JS

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In a review of Not a Chimp: The Hunt To Find the Genes That Make Us Human, we find out that chimpanzees aren't really as smart as we're being led to believe. (they don't specifically say so, but I think we can assume that Lacelot Link, Secret Chimp is an obvious exception)—JM

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Astonishing investigative report on a team of web-based prank callers who have caused thousands in damage.—JS

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People increasingly view copyright and trademark laws as tools of oppression and avarice, rather than protectors of innovation and commerce as they were intended to be. Why? Shit like this.—JS

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For some, passwords are the scourge of online life. (For others, they're "Abcd1234" – a disaster waiting to happen.) But it turns out they can be fun!—JS

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Compromises between the record industry and webcasters has led to a surge in funding for the internet music site. This is excellent news, and according to this article, a sign that webcasting will play a big role in the future of the industry.—BK

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Close personal friend of PoopReading.com (whether he likes it or not) Ben Fritz examines a shift in the attitudes of videogame companies toward big screen adaptations of their work.—JM

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It's easy to criticize "Big Brother." And almost all of those criticisms are wrong, because "Big Brother" is awesome. Linda Holmes, however, offers up a criticism that has considerable merit...—JM

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Several books advance various theories on how and why obesity has become so much more common in the United States (and the rest of the developed world).—JM

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As we celebrate Apollo 11's anniversary, a look at recent research regarding Armstrong's famous quote.—JS

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Always nice to hear from the guys over at Cracked.com.—JM

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Clicking around on the web is too reading! It's just different from reading a book – not better, not worse.—JS

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A post that is sadly as short as it is excellent, but you can kind of think of it as an extension of the Over is Right post.—JS

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Some of these fall into the "relax, it's just a movie" category. But others, like "why did Marty appear to have no intention of avoiding the photo booth when fleeing the Libyans in the DeLorean?", really resonate.—JM

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Seeing past the initial hype, Tina Fey once joked on SNL that the Segway would revolutionize the way people are hit by cars. Apparently, though, the much-ridiculed conveyance has proved useful in a couple of places.—JM

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The Sci Fi Channel just rebranded itself as "Syfy." When I first heard that, I thought "what possible reason could there be for something like this?" Turns out there were a few good ones, actually.—JM

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A 13-year-old tries a music player he's never heard of before, with hilarious results.—JS

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Gladwell looks at how the digital age has transformed the ways in which things are made and sold by way of a review of Chris Anderson's new book Free: The Future of a Radical Price.—BK

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An update on the quest to develop homegrown software code that can beat the Netflix movie recommendation system.—JS

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"Anything I give you would only be a placebo." "Where do we get these placebos!?"—JM

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One of the phone's latest tricks is already making for gritty suspense drama on the streets of Chicago.—JS

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This plods along with some intriguing observations about whether the true frontier is without or within... then the last paragraph of the footnote blew my mind!—JS

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A "comfort wipe" is basically a stick to help old and/or obese people wipe their butts.—JM

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A whole lot of Twitter users try it once and decide it's not for them. (Or maybe they think it's a really short survey: "What are you doing?" "Answering this question." There, that's done!)—JS

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The future of artificial intelligence: will the robots fetch our coffee and fix our robots, or will they chase Linda Hamilton through a factory?—JS

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Y2K, global warming, the Mayan calendar coming to an end in 2012... like they once said on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," I find myself needing to know the plural of "apocalypse."—JM

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For Memorial Day, your requisite dose of "freedom isn't free." True freedom, of course, involves even the freedom to take for granted the sacrifices of those who came before, and unfortunately that's a freedom of which I occasionally avail myself.—JM

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This one won't really work if you want to print it out and take it with you, but I decided it was too good not to link to anyway.—JM

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Just one of many jaw-dropping revelations in this short Q&A about teens and new technology. (Sadly, danah boyd is the "actual" spelling of her name.)—JS

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It should go without saying that you should probably listen to doctors and scientists more. It should.—JM

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If I ever meet Michael Ian Black, I'm giving him a big hug for all the times he's bailed me out of a slow link day. (And a big sloppy kiss for everything else.)—JS

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Implies that the Internet age has made us all into illiterate, solipsistic assholes. (Which, if you've seen the Internet, clearly isn't true.)—JS

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Oh, it is on, folks. It is fucking on! (sorry for the swear word, Mom and Matt, but I think even you would agree that sometimes, only the "f"-word will suffice. And this is most certainly one of those times)—JM

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If you like Pac-Man, this'll keep you entertained for quite a while. If you don't, then greetings! How are things in Communist Russia?—JS

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It sounds like YouTube may prove financially unsustainable. You mean I'll have to burn videos of my daughters to DVD and mail them to my parents, like some sort of caveman?—JM

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Yeah, sometimes we link to fiction here at Poop Reading. Fiction that makes you think.—JS

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A little old perhaps, but still fascinating. Bite me, I'm running a high fever today.—JS

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According to this piece, at least, Howard the Duck isn't as bad as you remember. It's worse.—JM

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The former MTV "Singled Out" host and son of a Hall of Fame bowler contends that advances in technology are making bowling too easy. Maybe he's right; any idiot can bowl a 129 nowadays. Right, Mr. President?—JM

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Okay, this review loses its snarky zing after a while, but I'm pretty sure the ninja is fighting a shark in a water hazard. If you tell your grandchildren about one thing, let it be this.—JS

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An interview with philosopher Alva Noë about the nature of human consciousness. I don't know about you, but I dig this sort of thing.—JM

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Jim Caple takes a look at what the failures of newspapers, and the corresponding loss of baseball beat writers, means for the fan.—JM

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Conan's hornymanatee.com and the many sites from How I Met Your Mother (the "William Faulkner of sitcoms!").—JS

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Joel Stein writes about the phenomenon of the Adam Carolla podcast. I keep telling you people. I keep telling you...—JM

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Exporting our memory (phone numbers to our cell phone, addresses to Google, facts to Wikipedia) means dramatically increasing our storage space. More memory equals smarter.—JS

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Friendster has been taken over by robots and Asians. I remember hearing the Brazilians took Orkut. Stories like these prevent me from ever embracing Facebook. (Also, it's utterly pointless.)—JS

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Adam Carolla's podcast is apparently #1 on iTunes after less than two weeks. I told you people about him, did I not?—JM

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What does Guitar Hero's popularity mean for the future of rock and roll?—BK

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The terms "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest" have been cause for confusion among some people, apparently.—JM

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Offering up an alternate universe where people "Bongo" their favorite TV shows and communicate with a LeapFrog.—BK

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Why Hulu is winning the online video battle.—BK

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I understand that war is hell. I understand that killing is not to be romanticized. That said, you must – must! – check this out; it's one of the best things I've read on the internet in ages.—JM

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The NFL season isn't really over until Gregg Easterbrook writes his Super Bowl column and hands out the Longest Award in Sports. Enjoy.—JM

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An intriguing concept that responds to the economic forecast and even offers an opportunity for profit.—JS

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Another brave soul argues against the prevailing wisdom that, since two things have a screen on them, their functionalities should merge. I'm with him.—JS

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Whenever there's a slow link day, you can count on Michael Ian Black.—JS

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An interesting look at the emerging field of photography-as-art-history. Sort of heady, but that's okay once in a while.—JM

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The world's best, longest, and least-about-football football column is almost done for the year; don't miss it while it's still around!—JM

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A compare-and-contrast look at the various methodologies used by spell-check programs in word processing versus online search engines. What's that? It sounds boring? Well... you're boring!—JM

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See, I just wait until Jameson tells me what technology to use.—BK

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Corporate innovation in the time before history. Fear not: no real bears are involved.—JS

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An update on the Netflix Prize, the puzzles of computerized recommendation, and the ongoing scourge of Napoleon Dynamite.—JS