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41 Warner Bros. Movies on YouTube — Free, The Way We Like It

From Tedium:

The New DVD Bargain Bin

A major studio is apparently treating YouTube as a place to drop some of its archive films that have lost their cinematic luster. My mind is admittedly blown.

Warner Bros. has recently done something that I'm really just kind of in awe about.

Over the last month, across five different YouTube channels, the studio has released more than 30 full movies.

On YouTube. For free.

Without any sort of gating.

And to be clear, this is not the YouTube Movies service, which is fully licensed and mainly represents a pretty good add-on perk of YouTube Premium subscriptions.

Instead, WBD (without notice or promotion) is dropping full-on films that it spent millions of dollars making on its own channels, in a way that makes it feels like it’s saying that the films are commercially spent.

What stands out more than anything else is that Warner Bros. released them this way, rather than in a format that limits access — something that Warner could easily do, thanks to the fact that it owns the streaming service Max, as well as Turner Classic Movies, a television channel that allows cable customers to stream.

I'm not exactly sure what message is being sent here by offloading these seemingly random movies in such a bewildering way.

But maybe it's a sign that, once the long tail starts thinning out, the streaming revolution isn't all it's cracked up to be.

How to appear smarter than you really are

Assuming you speak English, when someone asks the source of a quotation, quickly respond, "The Bible or Shakespeare."

FunFact: You'll be right half the time.

Sugar Sugar

This low-tech/high-function sugar dispenser is for those who measure out their lives not in coffee spoons but, rather, in cupfuls.

Below, Amy Thomson's Cool Tools review.

Sugar Dispenser — Mess-Free Storage

I bought this sugar dispenser from King Arthur Flour a couple of years ago, and it's been a sturdy, reliable tool.

It's sized to accommodate a five-pound bag of sugar or flour.

You slide the bag inside, open it up, trim the bag top to the level of the top of the container, and put on the lid.

There's a little flap on the inside of the lid that fits right inside the bag of sugar, holding it open and keeping the sugar from sifting down the sides.

The lid has two openings, one is a small pour spout, and the other is large enough for scooping out sugar with a measuring cup.

The spout is slightly flexible, so if a lump clogs it I can squeeze the sides of the spout to crush the lump.

The whole thing is ant- and waterproof when sealed shut.

This is not a sexy matte-black high-tech kind of tool, just a solid, well thought out container that makes working with, and storing, sugar or flour much simpler, easier, and neater.

Using it makes me very happy.

$24.99 (sugar not included).