In part one of a two part series on premium video streaming services, I review the quality of the movie offerings from NetFlix and Hulu Plus. I checked each of the top 100 movies of all time (from the Internet Movie Database) for streaming access. The clear winner is NetFlix, with just 20 percent of the top 100 to Hulu's 0(!) percent. It is clear that Hulu is not trying to get any of the premiere movie properties, even though Hulu is owned by content companies.

Every time I drive into Oregon I get accosted by some guy wearing a safety bib asking for money. To residents of the 48 states without a self-serve prohibition, OR/NJ's gas law makes about as much sense as a pitcher named "Tomorrow":

As the age distribution of the United States flattens out, a greater proportion of the "famous" population will reach their expected life span.

NPR is usually pretty good about putting economic stories in perspective, but today they repeated the "grim" economic statistic that more jobs were loss in 2008 than in any year since 1945 (the transition to a post war economy). Let's take a look past the headlines: