I've just discovered Hulu

Hulu apparently launched in March of this year, but this morning was the first time I saw it mentioned (on Kottke).

Here's the skinny from Wiki:

Hulu is a website that offers free, ad-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX, and others. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States.

Hulu provides video in Flash Video format in a higher resolution and bit-rate than YouTube, but lower than standard-definition television, though many films are available in 480p…

Hulu offers full episodes and segments from over 400 different TV shows, some no longer on the air, some in syndication, and many currently shown only in the United States…

Hulu offers over 100 motion pictures that range from classic to modern films. The movie content is provided by studios such as Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Lionsgate Entertainment, and Sony Pictures among others…

The name Hulu comes from a Mandarin Chinese proverb, in which it means holder of precious things. Literally, it refers (in Chinese) to the calabash gourd.

I've just briefly explored it, and found, for example, the first two full seasons (1962-64) of the Alfred Hitchcock Hour, 14 episodes of NOVA, and a huge number of full-length feature movies.

My chances of getting any productive work done suddenly went down another notch...