I recently returned to actively renting movies from Netflix (I had the DVD "Murderball" stuck in my Mac's DVD drive for a couple of months (I refuse to reboot unless absolutely necessary), then I moved, then I couldn't find the RCA cables for my DVD player, then I couldn't find "Murderball" in order to return it and get the next DVD in my queue. I finally sorted everything out. I never did watch "Murderball"). Netflix has made some nice improvements to it's site - nice web 2.0 improvements. For instance, when moving a DVD to the top of the queue, it glides up quickly, no wait, instead of taking *forever* to post and refresh.

One of my favorite features of the site is the ability to look at what DVDs are popular in your local area. There were some obvious choices for Honolulu, like "North Shore", "Las Vegas: Season 4" (Las Vegas is like an unofficial annex of Hawaii), "The Joy Luck Club", and "Samoan Wedding". What really blew my mind was that "Caligula" made the list of top 25 DVDs in Honolulu. "Caligula"? The creepy 1980 PBS sexfest? Yup. Who knows why.