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Thousands of DVDs for you to choose from can be sent straight to your mailbox with a few clicks of your mouse. Netflix is awesome. It's also a soulless corporate empire. Like binging at McDonald's, it simultaneously appears to fill a need while leaves you wanting. Surely there has to be something better out there.

Netflix halted shipments of its movies earlier this week due to "severe technical issues." They started mailing movies out again midweek, but they're moving at a snail's pace, and they have no idea when service will return to normal. The lesson behind all this? Get movies with lots of special features so you have something to watch until the next DVD in your queue finally crawls through your mail slot. [Trib]

Despite delays and opposition, officials hope to have the new O'Hare runway open by November 20 and hope Air Force One will be the plane to christen it.