Writing in Slate, Sam Anderson explains the strange things you might learn about your friends if you inspect their Netflix queues.

Writes Anderson, "(O)ne of my smartest, most sophisticated friends had rated Lindsay Lohan's Mean Girls as highly as he'd rated Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Other friends had given perfect ratings to productions as various as Deliverance, Pretty in Pink, Edward Scissorhands, Madonna: Truth or Dare, and Xena: Warrior Princess (Season 3). Who were these people, I wondered, and what kinds of unholy amalgamations were their movie tastes?"

I tend not to look at my friends' rental activity and ratings. Maybe I should. Or maybe it’d be more interesting to get to know some of Anderson’s friends.--posted by Kevin