"The malfunction... began at about 7 a.m. PDT. The site came back online about 12 hours later, but the malfunction caused Netflix to miss the deadline to mail a large number of shipments scheduled to go out on Monday—affecting customers across the United States." How am I going to finish re-watching season 3 of the Wire by the end of the month now, you monsters?? [CNET]

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