From Judging your friends by their Netflix lists: “There’s something magical about spying via Netflix. Unlike the fantasy worlds of MySpace and the blogs, it’s less a social platform than a practical tool, so the data is exceptionally pure. Netflix allows our tastes to flourish in their full, omnivorous, complex human glory, free of shameful image-management and the high/low divide. Earnest Goes to Camp consorts freely with Citizen Kane. It’s like a self-portrait in movie titles: Nowhere else is cultural desire so nakedly on display.”