Coinstar makes vending machines into which you drop coins and from which you get bills or gift cards. Its list of unacceptable items is quite odd, presumably intentionally.

I’d think that this is based on things people have actually tried to shove into Coinstar slots, except I don’t see “fishing line with gum at its end” or “your dick”on the list.

(Tip o’ the hat to my brother Andy who definitely was not trying to “redeem” 70,000 #6 steel washers.)

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The redditor makeinstallposted to PasteBin an HTMLized version of a list of hidden categories at Netflix that was the subject of a reddit thread. I’ve posted it as a Web page with links.

As you’ll see, Netflix has thousands of categories it uses internally. These are like the ones it lets you browse but more specific. This list will take you to a page at Netflix where you can browse among these micro-categories.

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It’s been a disappointing year for those of us who enjoy Top Ten Top Ten lists. Last year I found an arguable ten or so for my Top Ten top Ten Top Ten list.

This year, my Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten lists contains only four:

• Top Ten Best of 2013 Lists of 2013 Washington Post. Alexandra Petri.

• 10 Top 10 Lists – Storytelling edition Harvard Nieman Storyboard, Paige Williams

• The Local’s top ten top ten lists of 2013 The Local: Sweden’s News in English, Oliver Gee

• The Top Ten Top Ten Lists of 2013 Swan Fungus

Then there were some sites that seemed promising but can’t count in a list as rigorous as this. I have my standards, people!

• Top Ten Top Ten Lists At TopTenTopTen.com, a site that is down. This particular list, by BrassManBob, has one list with only three entries.

• Top Ten of Everything Time Magazine. Only lists six

• Film Critic Top Ten Lists Metacritic. Lists 73 or so

Not only is this a disaster for this year’s list, it calls into question our progress toward the dream: a Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten list. But I have hope. We can do this!

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I do appreciate John Blossom’s listing me among the top ten influential people in digital media. Thanks, John. And while my ego’s nether regions are indeed all a-tingle, I’m mainly enjoying the thought of the other nine people — the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Larry Page, and Jeff Bezos — reading the list and saying “Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, wtf?, uh huh…”

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