Nintendo Wii to Add Netflix Service for Streaming Video - NYTimes.com

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I may have to promote the Wii back up from its basement exile, and maybe cut back our Netflix plan a bit.  

Nintendo is bringing Netflix's online streaming video service to its Wii gaming console, the most popular in the industry, the companies plan to announce Wednesday. The service lets subscribers choose from a catalog of generally older movies and television shows and watch them instantly.

Nintendo Wii to Add Netflix Service for Streaming Video - NYTimes.com

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Drupal - Get a working Nodereference Explorer module

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The short version is that I now know way too much Drupal for my own well being. 

patch in #9 didn't work for me. I don't think you can simply manipulate the array you get from drupal_add_js() and drupal_add_css() and expect your changes to persist through later preprocess functions. Those two functions keep an internal array with js and css data, so you have to use them. I re-rolled a patch that works for me and also removed a .buildpath and .project file inadvertently included in the same patch. Nodereference explorer is working for me now.

Optimize Javascript (and CSS too) breaks Nodereference Explorer | drupal.org

On the upside, Nodereference Explorer project is a great concept for providing a better UI when relating one node to another in drupal. Its supposed to pop up a Modal window with a richer interface that allows users to filter and search for the desired node. Unfortunately, neither the "stable" nor "development" versions worked for me. I had to break out the firebug and tweak a patch I found in the bug report above to get it working.

Hopefully there aren't any more issues in this module, as I really need it to work in my current project.

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Warning, Nexus One users! Dangerous fees may lie ahead

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This gives me pause in considering the Nexus as my next phone ... cancel early and you may pay more than the phone is worth.

In such a climate, introducing a hot new phone with a set of combined fees that can actually be more expensive than the unsubsidized device itself might seem to be a risky move, coming only weeks after the FCC went after Verizon on a similar issue.

Warning, Nexus One users! Dangerous fees may lie ahead

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