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Los Gatos-based NetFlix has one of the greatest products around, and we give them a lot of leeway despite the company's annoying, ever-present pop-up ads.

Welcome, readers, to an all-too-rare edition of SFist Answers, where we pretend to know stuff. Today's theme: crying. Let's make people cry. Fun!

The high point of this collection of short animations: "Petunia," a simple, lovely story about a moody guy and a flower; if it was CG rather than hand-drawn, it would be the sort of thing you might find at the start of a Pixar movie. And the low point: that would be either the discombobulated CG short that turned out to be an advertisement, or the excruciating German puppet-mess that drew audience applause from when it was finally turned off about halfway through.

SFist is shocked to see that we failed for the 31st year in a row to make the Forbes list of the top 400 richest people in the world. Much like those US News and World Report stickers that show up on local editions of the America's Top Colleges magazines ("NORTHERN CALIFORNIA! Berkeley, Stanford, and Mills are represented in here!"), someone has thoughtfully compiled a compendium of California-based information for your perusal.