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August 21, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Another unique and fascinating website, London Bananas features pictures of discarded banana skins found throughout the city of London. (Via Sarah) PC Magazine lists the top 100 undiscovered websites of 2008. (Via Scott) Dude was fishing with his granddaughter recently in a private pond in North Carolina when she gave him her Barbie-branded rod and reel to hold while she went to the......

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August 7, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. It's funny because it's true. Present company excluded, of course. (Via Sarah) Speaking of internet truths, we're sure you already know that for every incredibly odd and unlikely pass-time you can imagine, there is a website for it. Case in point: Hats of Meat, which celebrates making and wearing hats made out of raw meat. Why does this happen? We can't even begin......

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July 16, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Computerworld takes a look at how CAPTCHA was cracked, and the consequences of that event. (Via Slashdot, via Jill) Babble picks the 26 most disturbing kid movies ever. (Via Sarah) Justin Theroux will write the sequel to Iron Man, and Marvel is close to a deal that will bring back director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey Jr. The plan is......

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July 15, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Epicurious has created a tasty menu based on ingredients found at Philly's own Reading Terminal Market. (Via Sarah) The first full trailer for The Spirit suggests that the film will be an incredibly surreal chronicle of the main character getting seduced by various hot women and then shot at by Samuel L. Jackson. Which... actually sounds like a......

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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,......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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May 28, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Watch this short documentary to learn the true and secret history of the American hobo. (Via Dan) Check out a photo of all the old school heroes from Watchmen. If their costumes look kind of cheesy and home-made... well, they're actually supposed to look that way. We can't say we love the way this looks, but we don't hate it, either.......

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April 25, 2008

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. It's finally official: Guillermo del Toro will indeed be directing the movies based on The Hobbit. Hoorah! (Via Ross) America, prepare to be stimulated even earlier than you expected! Btw, we hear the government is considering following up the free money with some free bread and circuses. (Via Sarah) Warren Ellis has the normal collection of weird, interesting, and mind-blowing stories today. We......

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April 17, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. After it came out that seven recipes listed on John McCain's campaign website as being "Cindy's Recipes" had actually been copied verbatim from the Food Network, the campaign blamed an intern, saying he'd "been dealt with" and that "we took away his zero pay." Heh heh heh. Meanwhile, a disturbing practice called microtargeting tries to connect consumer habits, like how people eat, with......

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April 8, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. There are Burger King-licensed potato snacks now in two flavors: Ketchup & Fries and Flame Broiled. We are horrified, yet curious. (Via Sarah) Yo, it's hard out there for a blogger! (Via Jill) At this year's annual Rube Goldberg competition, the task was to assemble a hamburger in 20 or more steps. The winner managed it in 156......

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March 28, 2008

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. This is truly beautiful news: icanhascheezburger.com is teaming up with Jones Soda to create lolcat soda. There's even a contest to create more lolcat images specifically for the soda bottle labels. (Via Sarah) Some photos apparently taken by a spy on the Star Trek set have made their way online (via). They give us a look at a uniform and a shuttlecraft. For......

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March 27, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. As we're sure you've heard at some point, Guns N' Roses has been promising to put out a new album called Chinese Democracy for years and years, but the thing has yet to materialize. In order to speed things along (and, yeah, for marketing purposes, too), Dr. Pepper has promised it will give a free can of soda to everyone in America—except for......

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March 26, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Muxtape looks like a cool idea (although beware—it seems to be a bit unreliable at the moment, perhaps due to its sudden popularity). Upload some MP3s and then anybody else can listen to them as a streaming playlist. There are no issues of legality because there's no way to actually download the songs. We're really enjoying this particular muxtape at the......

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March 24, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Fantasy/humor author Terry Pratchett recently donated over a million dollars for research into the causes and cures of Alzheimer's Disease, and now an effort to match his donation has started. It's appropriately called Match It for Pratchett, and fellow fantasy author George R.R. Martin has details on how you can participate on his Not a Blog. You might want to consider......

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March 20, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Looks like Paramount Pictures wants Sam Raimi to spearhead a revival of the Jack Ryan franchise. Clint Eastwood is going to direct and star in a film called Gran Torino. Details are being kept under wraps, but the rumor is the film might be a new entry in the Dirty Harry series. Feeling lucky, punk?! We're not a huge fan of the work......

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March 13, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Settle in, folks, because we've got a great big bundle of trailers for you today: a new one for Wall*E (via); Incredible Hulk (via); The Lost Boys: The Tribe (via); extremely creepy-looking horror flick The Strangers (via); and animated movie Batman: Gotham Knight. The trailer for Incredible Hulk is freaking FANTASTIC. We may just have a new most anticipated movie of 2008. "As......

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March 11, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. The new poster for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is online, and it looks awesome. When we start having previews for previews, we may have gone too far. Still, this ad for the premiere of the Hulk trailer is kind of neat. If you want the specifics, the trailer will air tomorrow night at......

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March 10, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Defective Yeti has collected together a lot of the best tributes to Gary Gygax on the web, including his own. Wired also had a cool D&D logo redesign contest in honor of Gygax. So remember how there was that guy whose one-of-a-kind signed Xbox 360 was ruined by Microsoft's repair technicians, and Bungie said they were going to help him out?......

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March 7, 2008

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Looks like Spore is coming to the iPhone, too. People, do you know what weekend it is? It's Super Smash Bros. Brawl launch weekend!! GameStop will be holding Brawl tournaments and midnight launches this Saturday at 2,500 of its stores, including a number in Philadelphia (via). Joystiq has their own first impressions of the game, as well as a metareview. Finally, they also......

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March 5, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. The sad news has spread quickly across the internet that co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons Gary Gygax has died. A local blogger and former Phillyist read that article we posted yesterday about the decade's most misogynistic films and got so pissed he decided to analyze and deconstruct the entire thing in an impressive rant. Thanks, yagathai! Now we feel good about......

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March 4, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Djimon Hounsou revealed at a press junket that he’ll be starring in his dream project soon, which he described only as a comic book trilogy. Could he be playing Luke Cage? Black Panther? Or does it have something to do with Tintin? We'll just have to wait and see. What would it look like if Saul Bass did......

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March 3, 2008

Monday challenges the average human to perform incredible feats of bravery and strength every week. It is the Goliath to our David, the Microsoft to our Yahoo!, the [insert viable presidential candidate here] to our Ron Paul. We do not choose it – it chooses us. Then it abuses us. Degrades us. Makes us to feel as if our feelings, if they exist at all, don't actually matter. Yes, we will say it, because......

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March 3, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. MoviesOnline has a ton of clips up from the upcoming Neil Marshall film, Doomsday. (Via) The next group in Hollywood we have to worry about striking is the actors. They're represented by the Screen Actors' Guild, who for some reason don't even want to start negotiating with producers until April. So another union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists,......

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February 28, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The upcoming print edition of Empire Magazine has a couple of cool new pictures from The Incredible Hulk. Looks like William Hurt makes a kick-ass General Ross! Rumor is that a sequel to The Last Starfighter is on the way, focusing on the son of the titular character from the first movie, and featuring the talents of the original writing, directing, and acting......

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February 26, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. We have a release date for Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins, and it is May 22, 2009. Production on the film starts in New Mexico on May 5th of this year. Director Peter Segal says although production on Billy Batson and the Legend of Shazam was delayed by the writers' strike, the movie should still happen. The Oscars......

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February 25, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. How about those Oscars? If you just want a list of all the winners, IMDB can help (go Coen brothers! Woo!). Cinematical, of course, was liveblogging the entire thing. Joystiq celebrated Wii Tennis' short cameo at the ceremony, and even embedded the video. Cinematical also found a great LJ post with links to YouTube videos of 46 of the animated shorts......

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February 20, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Nerd World dug up a pretty cute little video clip from the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are movie. The audio is clearly unfinished, but otherwise it looks pretty much done. Some rumors confirmed: first of all, Ryan Reynolds will indeed appear as Deadpool in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Furthermore, Friday Night Lights regular Taylor Kitsch will play Gambit, and will.i.am will......

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