This week Netflix agreed to send free streaming video through Tivo boxes, adding over 12,000 titles that will now be available on demand through Tivo.

Yay! Cool! What? We were just getting used to movies arriving in the mail and our TV knowing what we like. And now whatever... this... is? Look, what these magic machines are doing behind our backs is probably copacetic -- probably -- but maybe we could get some kind of free tutorial when stuff like this happens? We've got all kinds of good questions. Like, if you don't rewind your Tivo all the way, do you have to pay an extra dollar to Netflix?

-- Jake Kalish is the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights