Good lord, a link to slashdot, which links to theguardian, which links to boingboing... Doesn't anyone believe in primary sources anymore? I miss the good old days when a 20 line "story" would be spread across 20 pages not 20 sites.

I looked at the movie on Amazon and its still up for sale, although the "Most Helpful customer reviews" is less than glowing with christmas cheer. Its glowing like a heavily used nuclear test site.

This is weird and disturbing... so I can buy and pay for something today that was removed from sale yesterday, or just what is going on here?

This has never happened to me with books / stuff in general at Amazon but the half life of subscribe and save groceries must be about 6 months because seemingly every month something else gets discontinued. I can't complain too much, often its about half the price of the local grocery stores, but its still annoying. More like "subscribe for a couple months and save" at best.