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Bioware continues to spread their metaphorical peanut butter over all my favorite chocolate with today announcement that Felicia Day will be staring in a six episode web series based in the Dragon Age universe.

So that doesn’t mean much to everyone, but it means a lot to nerds like me. If you’re unfamiliar with Felicia Day go watch Dr. Horrible or The Guild and get back to me.

Here’s a couple stills of and an interview with Felicia Day on location and rocking a great costume.

Update (Feb 18th): Here’s the first trailer.

Netflix announced yesterday that it is eliminating profiles, a feature that allows subscribers to maintain multiple queues and ratings under one account. This was a great feature for multi-user households to manage a group subscription but ensure that each user was able to have their own preferences, ratings, and queue. To make matters worse, Netflix has been especially hostile towards current profile users stating that:

• All Profiles rental history will be added into the main account rental history
• Your additional Profile Queues will be eliminated. If you would like to keep a copy of each Profile Queue we recommend that you print them out.
• Profiles movie ratings and Profiles Friends connections will no longer be available
• You will not be able to transfer your Profiles data to a separate new account

This seems like a particularly consumer-hostile move from a company that, in the past has had a fairly positive reputation for customer service. As a subscriber and heavy-user of this feature myself, I feel particularly betrayed. The unceremonious termination of my 100+ item queue and 1000+ ratings make it seem like Netflix really doesn’t give a damn about anything but it’s bottom line. As Ars Technica points out, replicating a 4 disc at-a-time account, which costs roughly $24/month, with two 2 disc at-a-time accounts will cost $28/month, or $4/month for Netflix’s bottom line.  Adding insult to injury, Netflix reasons for the change in policy are simply “…to continue to improve the Netflix website for all our customers,” with no other details provided.  This kind of bullshit PR-speak only serves to aggravate customers like myself who are left wondering how eliminating already-in-place features helps improve the site.

There are, unsurprisingly, many upset Netflix customers pouring onto the web to complain about this.  Some resources and petitions they have thrown together include:

• Get Satisfaction: Netflix to break homes by eliminating profiles
• Digg: Netflix Eliminating Profiles
• Hacking Netflix: Netflix Eliminating Account Profiles
• Protest Netflix’s Cancellation of Profiles Petition
• SaveNetflixProfiles.com
• Netflix Community Blog: Profiles feature going away

Even if you’re not a current Netflix subscriber, you should take note of how Netflix responds to this issue. If you are a current subscriber, I encourage you to visit the websites above, sign petitions, and complain to the company about this blatant disregard for the value of their customers.

Update: they came to their senses and decided to keep them after all.

NIN just posted their new single, titled ‘Discipline’ online for free. Download it here.  Good stuff, more traditional NIN (meaning not ambient stuff like ‘Ghosts I-IV‘).

BTW, I’m loving the level of interaction Trent and the band are having with their fans now that they shed their label.

Update: The whole album has now been released for free. Details.

Battlestar Galactica: Razor:

From October 5 through November 16, SCI FI whets Battlestar fans’ appetites every Friday night with Razor Flashbacks during all-new episodes of Flash Gordon. All the flashback clips will be available on SCIFI.COM immediately after broadcast.

These [...] roughly two-minute segments tell the story of young William “Husker” Adama’s rookie Viper mission during the first Cylon war. In addition to fighting for his very survival against relentless Cylon centurions, Adama makes a terrifying discovery that will come back 40 years later to threaten him, the crew of the Pegasus and the survival of the human race.

This footage won’t be shown in the actual primere of the two-hour Razer ‘movie’ that premiers on Saturday, November 24th. Check out the official site for more details. Also: mark your calendars for ‘Awesome’ on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

True Genius: Brent becomes a Mac Genius in the webcomic PVP.

This is totally what I always wanted to do when I was working as a Genius.