The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Paris Hilton rather famously made a cameo in a recent John McCain campaign ad. So Funny or Die paid for her hilarious video response. It's the best thing we've ever seen her in! Way better than the sex video. (Via Debbie) Check out the Holy Grail of Buffy fandom, a never-before-seen three-minute demo reel for a Buffy the Vampire Slayer animated......

When the clock inches towards five on a Friday, this Phillyist likes to say she'll be going down the shore. But many might say they are going "to the beach" or "to the ocean." According to Urban Dictionary, the term "down the shore" is used mostly by us Philly folks. Regardless, Phillyist believes that wherever you go this weekend—the beach, the shore, or the seaside—you should make it a great one. Mid-Summer Fest is in......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Want to win a trip to the San Diego Comic Con to meet the cast of Death Race, and maybe even appear in the DVD as a casualty of the race? Sure you do! Just click here and fill out the form to enter. (Via Jill) A look into Harvey Weinstein's recycle bin. Check out the very creepy red band trailer......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Japanese magazine Famitsu has given Super Smash Bros. Brawl a rare perfect 40/40 review score. Seems like a good sign! Yesterday was the latest big tech event, after CES: MacWorld 2008. Nerd World sums up the whole thing in one post, but Shiny Shiny has lots of coverage, including posts about upgrades to Apple TV and the official announcement of movie......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. How about a deep-fried, cheese-filled burger patty made entirely of bacon? We'll take a couple over here, please! (Via) Cinematical points out that pretty much anything you might want to know about Cloverfield has now leaked online, so they're going to stop talking about it now. But if that's still not enough for you, Phillyist's cousin LAist has an interview with the director.......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. CES 2008 is a few days away, but the announcements and rumors are already pouring out. Netflix is partnering with LG to create a set-top box through which they'll be able to deliver movies and other programming directly to your TV (via Sarah). Meanwhile, rumor is that Microsoft will have a big Xbox-related announcement that might also have something to do with Netflix.......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. The next Bond girl has been selected and it will be a hot British 22-year-old named Gemma Arterton. Besides being hot, she apparently also has acting chops. Bonus! Dark Knight trailer! Dark Knight trailer! And it's pretty freaking awesome, too. Also, as of this writing, a bootleg video of the first six minutes of the film is available on YouTube. Definitely......

Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! As I've mentioned once or twice before on Phillyist, this year I went from being distantly fascinated by comic books to being a seriously obsessive weekly comic book collector. So here are my......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. A nativity scene becomes a LARP battle in this incredibly nerdy video that may just be the best thing ever. Or at least the geekiest Christmas ever. Oh, and did we mention it's called IM IN UR MANGER KILLING UR SAVIOR? (Via Sarah) AOL Food has a list of the top 11 things that taste great with bacon. And that's a......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Who knew there was an annual symposium for cocktail robotics? Apparently it's called Roboexotica, it's been around for nine years, it just happened again weekend before last, and Wired has the photos. (Via Jill) This past weekend an auction of items formerly belonging to Ozzy Osbourne and his family raked in a lot of cash, with all the proceeds going to......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. One of the stars of Speed Racer has revealed that the movie was filmed with no sets, entirely in front of green screen. Ouch! Game|Life has a detailed of deconstruction of why the much-anticipated Assassin's Creed is a failed game. Astronomers have found a giant hole in the universe which may in fact be the imprint of another universe on our......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. As we did in our news post, let's get all the holiday-related stuff out of the way first: just in time for Thanksgiving, Cinematical finally announced the winners of their Halloween costume contest (definitely not our favorites, but we never got around to voting, so we guess it's our own fault). They also have a list of Seven Movie Characters They'd Hate to......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Frank Darabont changed the ending of The Mist for the movie - and King approved. Not only is Guitar Hero III expected to single-handedly cause huge growth in the video game industry, it's also apparently causing growth in album sales for the artists whose songs appear in it. Heads up, amateur scribes and video game fans! BioWare is......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Sad news: a special effects technician working on Dark Knight has died after his 4x4 vehicle crashed into a tree during a dummy film run. Zack Snyder has posted a little video greeting describing what the first week of filming Watchmen has been like ("challenging" and "crazy," but also "great" and "amazing" - apparently everybody there loves the source material and......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. GameStop's merger with EB opens the door to the possibility of GameStop carrying video games rated as Adults Only, as EB has carried such games in the past. Apparently it's something GameStop will be considering on a case-by-case basis. Yet more posts on the Tokyo Game Show! This time it's just the important stuff: the maids and butlers helping people out......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Most versions of the Bible are apparently missing all the important bits where Spider-Man shows up to lend a hand. American viewers of the new Doctor Who series may be unaware that before she was the Doctor's assistant, Billie Piper was a one-woman Spice Girl! Sort of. (Via) This is absolutely brilliant: the classic "Trouble with Tribbles" episode......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Apparently there will be a hotel in space in 5 years. A three day stay will cost you a cool $4 million. As you may have noticed from past postings, we're pretty big fans of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Reading lead singer Toren Atkinson's blog this morning, we had these observations: Supercthonic would be an awesome title for an......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. There's finally an official teaser trailer for The Dark Knight officially on the web, and you can watch it here. There's no footage from the film, just audio - but you do get to hear the Joker. (Via) Fun little profile of Neil Gaiman here, on the occasion of the upcoming release of the film adaptation of his book Stardust (via).......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. How about some political humor mixed with clips from The Godfather? Our favorite part is at the very end. (Via) Local aspiring filmmakers, be aware that the Big Bang Film Festival (also on MySpace) is calling for entries, and the deadline is approaching! Well, one of the deadlines. The regular deadline is June 1st, which is Friday, but there are "late"......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Presented without comment. Well, we do have one comment: heh. We have it on good authority that the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets' new album, The Shadow Out of Tim, will be available for purchase at Amazon.com (and probably also at record stores, although maybe only ones in Canada) on the summer solstice, which is June 21st this year. Yay! List time! It's......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. First of all, and thankfully, it turns out that whole story about the Kansas Board of Education banning Pokemon was fake. The scary thing is that, even though it did seem pretty ridiculous, it also seemed possible. Harvey Weinstein is incredibly disappointed and is thinking of rereleasing Grindhouse this summer as two separate movies. Crap! That means we......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Google Maps is extremely helpful with directions, even when you're going across oceans (see step 23). (Via) A student was suspended in North Carolina because he came to school dressed as a pirate, and his costume was "disruptive." The student says the punishment is a violation of his rights, as his religion dictates that he must dress in "full pirate regalia." Yep, he's......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Weren't we just saying something recently about how whenever something cool happens the big boys have to come in and ruin it for everybody? Case in point. (Via Editor Jill) India Today has some great details on our hero Wes Anderson's new movie, The Darjeeling Limited. As usual, it's packed with stars and sounds exceedingly weird. We can't......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Joystiq tells us how we could win a free copy of TMNT for the Wii. Sure, the game will almost certainly suck, but it'd be free, and it's relatively easy to enter, so why not? Nintendo talked about the Zelda franchise at the GDC, and also showed off the upcoming DS title The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, which actually sounds like a......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Let us all agree right now: The Police were awesome. Or, we should say, are awesome, because they're *gasp* playing together again, at the opening of the Grammys. Which is the only good reason we think we've ever heard to watch the Grammys. Oh those wacky Hollywood people and their wacky remake/sequels. Turns out they're planning to do a sequel to The Departed,......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. The blog Strange Maps brings us the tourist map of Gotham, complete with plenty of interesting tidbits of history and trivia about the Dark Knight's home town. (Via) Check it out, the Pinball Locator! It's a user-contributed, searchable database of every place you can go in the world to play pinball. Sadly, there's only one spot listed in......

No, we did not get a Wii this weekend. Yes, we are exceedingly depressed about it. Regardless, we're still going to bring you the best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. It's just not going to have anything to do with video games. Banksy the guerrilla street aritst sneaks into famous museums and installs his art pieces next to the "legitimate" ones, complete with explanatory plaques. We love this......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. We have the official news, now folks: the next Batman movie will be called The Dark Knight. And if you've been keeping up with your celebrity news, you already know that the Joker will be played by Heath Ledger. We like that title quite a bit (simple, straightforward, accurate), but we're still not so sure about Heath Ledger. We actually kind......