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“Movies featuring an epic Nicolas Cage meltdown” and other April Fools’ jokes on Netflix

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:30:00 +0000

If you are a company searching for the perfect Internet prank for April Fools' Day, you might as well give up, because Netflix has beat you to it.

The online streaming company, known for its increasingly precise category recommendations, last night launched a set of bizarre new categories for the occasion. (If you have a Netflix account, check the third row of categories.)

Better hurry home tonight, so you don't miss out on some of these one-time recommendations:

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The best White House petitions that probably won’t make it to the White House

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:24:00 +0000

The White House is tired of responding to petitions, and it's no surprise why. After raising the bar on what merits a response, the White House still had to entertain the notion of building a Death Star (which was summarily rejected). That hasn't discouraged these people from trying to get their important issues heard, though, and that's the beautiful thing about democracy. Here are some of the best (worst) petitions to the White House from the month of March:

The petition to release the Declaration of Independence to Nic Cage

Holy rapture! Nicolas Cage gets “Left Behind”

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:39:00 +0000

It's all been leading to this. And I don't just mean the long-ago dreams of Georges Méliès to transform fantasy into cinematic vision. I speak, of course, of everything the authors of the Book of Revelation were talking about. World, Nicolas Cage is set to do a remake of "Left Behind." What is there to say beyond, "Should we put up our umbrellas now, because it's about to start raining blood?"

You may recall the original "Left Behind." It's the "Star Wars" of rapture-action movies, the 2000 blockbuster that spawned two sequels and is the single biggest reason that Kirk Cameron still gets booked on talk shows to explain why Darwin was wrong. Based on Tim LaHaye's apocalyptic best-seller, "Left Behind" tells the tale of Buck Williams, one of the unfortunate denizens of the human race who don't get to skip out on a buttload of tribulations the Bible warned about, and is instead saddled with battling the Antichrist.