Entries from Phillyist tagged with 'internet>'
July 3, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Clutch is putting out a live CD/DVD called Full Fathom Five. It's due out on August 12th on the band's own label, Weathermaker Music. You can get an MP3 download of a song off it right here. (Via Matt) Thanks probably in large part to the tireless work of The official McFLY 2015 project, Nike is finally going to put out "Air McFlys,"......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"July 2, 2008
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......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"July 1, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Guillermo Del Toro dropped some more hints about what we can expect from the one or two Hobbit movies he's going to direct. Check out Pixar's first short film. More pics from Scorsese's upcoming film, Ashecliffe. An upcoming film version of King Lear is set to star Anthony Hopkins as the titular king and Naomi Watts, Keira Knightley,......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"June 30, 2008
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Cinematical's review of Hellboy II is encouragingly positive. You can check out the new, third trailer for the film right here (via). Two Greek mythology movies are on their way and are likely to end up fighting it out at the box office. One is a remake of Clash of the Titans, to be directed by Louis Leterrier and written by......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"June 27, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Watch in awe as a horde of adorable puppies chase down a small child. Adorable. Sonic the Hedgehog turned 17 yesterday and is still a bratty, angst ridden teenager. And really, who can blame him? His recent games have been terrible. Though Sonic Unleashed looks promising. A gross man in Cincinnati had to hide his cellphone in the most awkward of places,......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"June 27, 2008
June 28. In 1519, Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor. In 1838, Queen Victoria was coronated. In 1880, Ned Kelly (they've made two movies about him) was captured. In 1894, Labor Day was made an official holiday. In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand (as opposed to indie darlings Franz Ferdinand) was assassinated, along with his wife, in Sarajevo, thus more or less kicking off World War I. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was......
Continue Reading "Happy Birthday to We... Err, Us!"June 26, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Bored at work? Now you can play thousands of NES games inside your Firefox browser. You can thank us later. The dude abides, man! Big Lebowski action figures. Sold. Sky ceilings. They mimic daylight and the outdoors. If you can afford one, chances are you don't have a cubicle that would require one. A crocodile walks into a bar.... Yeah, it does......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"June 25, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Check out this awesome custom made Halo 3 electric guitar that ran creator Paul Bliss almost $2400. Worth every penny, in our opinion. It's even signed by Steve Vai, the creator of that heavy metal version of the Halo theme song. Geek Photoshop graffiti? Cool! We wish we were skilled enough to create this fantastic Iron Man origami. Joystiq reports......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"June 25, 2008
For those of you who don't know, Larry Mendte used to do stand-up out in California. Now that he has some free time, maybe he'll pick up the mic again. Man, we hope so! Hey thanks everybody, it’s good to be here. Take my anchor chair, please! Seriously though what’s the deal with e-mail? Have you seen this thing? Apparently you can send letters and pictures over the internet. It’s true. Yeah, apparently you can......
Continue Reading "Larry Mendte Returns To Stand-up"June 24, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Amazon.com has an exclusive preview of Beck's new album, Modern Guilt. The video is more of the lame experimental stuff Beck's been doing lately, but the music is pretty cool. PC Magazine picks the best websites for movie fans, and do a pretty good job of it; included are some of our favorites, like Rotten Tomatoes, Apple's movie......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"June 23, 2008
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. So, anybody want to pool their cash and buy Phillyist a deluxe LEGO Death Star? (Via Amy) Cinematical takes a look at the pros and cons of Netflix's recently released set-top box, the Roku. Yay! Finally a new episode of GameTrailers' Star Wars Retrospective! Spider-Man video games have generally been a disappointment, but we've gotta say this preview for Spider-Man: Web......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"June 20, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Mmm! Bacon floss! (Via Amy) You can download Girl Talk's new album, Feed the Animals, for any price you choose. Although if you pick 0.00, you will have to explain yourself. (Via D-Mac) The next episode of Cinematic Titantic is now available! This time the MST3K alums are making fun of a lame sci-fi flick called The Doomsday Machine. You can download it......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"June 19, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. An amusing music video from Mindless Self Indulgence, directed by Jhonen Vasquez. (Via) A recent Wii update closed up a loophole that allowed hackers to run homebrew software through Twilight Princess, but apparently hackers have already broken the new code and opened up the loophole again. Good old hackers. Sienna Miller has confirmed that she will play Maid Marian in director Ridley Scott’s......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"June 18, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Yay! Sulu's getting married! (Via Jill) A new study reveals that diet and exercise don't just make you slimmer and healthier: they actually drastically change you at the genetic level. That's almost scary. Of course, if this means we can go on a diet and become Wolverine... well, just tell us what to eat! (Via Sarah) Nintendo of Europe's Laurent Fischer,......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"June 18, 2008
Well, we'll be damned. A group of local investors (including former mayoral candidate Tom Knox) got together and saved Philadelphia's city-wide WiFi program yesterday. They closed a deal with Earthlink to take over the existing network. The plan is to create a wired network for premium, paying customers, like hospitals, universities, companies and the city. This would be connected to the existing wireless system, which would be free to use anywhere the signal can be......
Continue Reading "Yo, Philly in the News"June 17, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. The latest Wallace and Gromit movie is the source for this great YouTube music video for "Hocus Pocus" by Focus. (Via) Scientists are experimenting with bacteria that eat agricultural waste and excrete crude oil. Sounds too good to be true. As usual, Scott Adams puts a hilarious spin on the story. Batwoman is back and she's a lesbian!......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"June 16, 2008
Although I frequently lament abuse of the English language, I'm also the first to admit that the internet has a language of its own. I'm not talking about L337, I'm not talking about LOL, and I'm not talking about the bad grammar that permeates most MySpace profiles. I'm referring to the language of hypertext, which makes it possible for us to write sentences like: "Don't be that guy" and "Her attitude toward adoption reminded......
Continue Reading "Monday Manners: Fair Use"June 16, 2008
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. If you, like this Phillyist, went to see The Incredible Hulk this weekend and were completely unable to spot the Captain America cameo, even after staying through the entire end credits sequence, well... there's something you should know: the director recently revealed that the cameo scene he'd promised us in a previous interview had to be cut out because it was......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"June 13, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. If you, like this Phillyist, own a PATCO Freedom card, you can head over to PATCO's official site and enter to win tickets to upcoming shows at the Susquehanna Bank Center. (Via Sarah) The Atlantic asks, is Google making us stupid? (Via Laura) Ooh! Details on Beck's new album, Modern Guilt, which will be released on July 8th in America. The MTV Movies......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"June 12, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Gawker did the difficult but important work of digging through hours of video footage to bring you still frames of 50 TV reporters making "O faces." If you know what we mean. (Via Sarah, via Jezebel) Lore Sjöberg makes an entertaining, but also surprisingly convincing, argument against using the term "NSFW." (Via Jill) OK, the whole disaster film genre may have gone too......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"June 11, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Yay! It's the trailer for the next episode of Cinematic Titanic! We're not even sure we want to open this can of beans, but... if you're interested, The Underwire has the entire backstory on a little YouTube dance-off feud that's been going on between Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana and the people behind Step Up 2. All the dialogue is in Russian, and......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"June 10, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. That scene in Iron Man where Tony Stark goes to Burger King wasn't just a glaringly obvious product placement—it was based on a true story! In fact, Burger King saved Robert Downey Jr.'s life. (Via Sarah) If you hadn't heard yet, the big info from Apple yesterday is that the iPhone is now better and cheaper! There are......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"June 9, 2008
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. The villain in the next Iron Man film just might be The Mandarin; director Jon Favreau had some interesting things to say about the character. (Via Ross) The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the short story that has already famously been adapted into a movie. The opera is scheduled to......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"June 6, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Penny Arcade offers one possible explanation for the recent behavior of one Jack Thompson, Esquire. This Phillyist just recently finished reading Warren Ellis' mind-blowingly excellent graphic novel Ocean, and now comes word that it's going to be turned into a movie. Woo hoo! If you care, The Movie Blog has set pics from Transformers 2. What if, instead of helping invent rock and......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"June 5, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The teaser poster for Oliver Stone's W highlights some of our president's more infamous verbal gaffes. Apparently a feud has already begun between Abel Ferrara, maker of the original Bad Lieutenant, and Werner Herzog, who's doing the remake. The possibility of an actors' strike in Hollywood had pretty much dropped off our radar, but it sounds like it could still be an issue.......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"June 4, 2008
The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. "Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star—a distant world just three times the size of our own." (Via Sarah) Won't somebody please think of the ninjas? Warren Ellis is on a roll lately. He's got links to a couple of fascinating articles, one about new evidence that suggests that Machu Picchu was actually discovered forty years......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up"June 3, 2008
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A very silly trailer. Mel Brooks will produce and co-write a horror film called Pizzaman. Is he a man made of pizza who eats himself to death? New pics from Lost Boys 2:The Tribe. Watch this new trailer for The Incredible Hulk quickly, because it could be pulled down any second. We'd heard the movie was influenced very......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"June 2, 2008
by Sarah Gormley The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Presenting the 2008 Maxim Hometown Hotties semi-finalists from PA. You can check out Nabila, Kimberly, Alexa, and Kayla and vote for your favorite. (via Tom) Though it’s similar to the last one, and grainy, this new trailer for Dark Knight is a favorite over at The Movie Blog. The blaze at Universal Studios on Sunday did a fair......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"May 30, 2008
A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Friend and famous local tech dude Tom Boutell has unveiled the public beta of his alternative to iSEPTA. It provides scheduling data on SEPTA trains, subways, trolleys, and buses, and supports not just the iPhone, but pretty much any web-enabled phone. It's called septime. Check it out. (Via) Enjoy a hilarious video critique of the worst DVD ever. If you have seen the......
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"May 29, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Sony Electronics Inc. and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association have signed an agreement with a group of cable providers (including Comcast) that will allow viewers to get rid of their set-top boxes, but still receive advanced "two-way" cable services (like pay-per-view movies). Awesome. We hate those damn boxes. (Via Sarah) Did you know that there is a World Superhero Registry, listing all......
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