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September 4, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The other day we posted a link where Battlestar Galactica's Tigh and Roslin were compared to McCain and Palin, but now we've discovered there's a whole site devoted to the similarities, and to promoting the Tigh/Roslin ticket. (Via Kevin) Writer-director Sheldon Lettich has been tapped by producer Alexander Nevsky to get to work on Hercules: The Beginning. Check out the powerful first trailer......

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August 25, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. NME profiles an American teen who quit school to work on perfecting his Guitar Hero game. His skills have already netted him prizes, and he hopes to go professional eventually. Oh, and don't worry—his parents have hired him a tutor so he can continue his education. (Via Ross) On September 1st, you can go into any participating Chik-Fil-A wearing a sports......

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August 15, 2008

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. A gallery of photos of San Fran's annual "Altered Barbie" exhibition. Some could theoretically be considered NSFW, but c'mon, it's just a doll. (Via Sarah) Three men have scheduled a press conference this afternoon in Palo Alto, California where they say they'll reveal the details of their discovery of what they claim is a dead Bigfoot. But apparently even other Bigfoot hunters doubt......

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August 14, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. A recent xkcd features a pretty hilarious send-up of Google Maps. (Via Star) Paris Hilton is being sued for not promoting a comedy she starred in recently, Pledge This! We were only vaguely aware the movie existed, so maybe they have a point! If you fear not the spoilers, then click through for a look at the true face of Rorschach from Watchmen.......

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August 11, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. "Researchers have demonstrated for the first time they were able to cloak three-dimensional objects using artificially engineered materials that redirect light around the objects." This means we're a step closer to a real invisibility cloak! Which is awesome and horrifying at the same time. Ooh, new Star Trek character posters! (Via) Robert Duvall is reprising his role as Tom Hagen in......

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July 25, 2008

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. This Chicago Sun-Times article explains the Christian Bale assault incident in a way that sounds very believable, and also makes us feel okay about liking Bale again. Apparently he's had a long-standing feud with his Mom, and just shoved her out of his suite after he realized she and his sister had only come looking for cash. (Via Sarah) Get Your War On,......

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July 24, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The world's oldest Bible is going online! All we want to know is, how are they going to jam those fragile old pages down the tubes of the internets without ruining them? (Via Jill) Sounds like NBC is doing a not-so-good job at selling their new programs to TV critics. (Via Jill) It's Comic-Con time! Cinematical has a preliminary post, then coverage of......

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July 23, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. We're really hoping Christian Bale didn't actually beat up his mom and his sister, because then we'd have to be really disappointed in him. Batman does not beat up old ladies! Unless they're super villains, of course (via Ross). Meanwhile, Warren Ellis points out that Hollywood stars used to be capable of more impressive bad behavior. Check out Cinematical's Comic-Con preview.......

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July 21, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. The Center City District is running a pretty cool contest: submit your best photos from Center City Sips and you could win $200 worth of Center City restaurant gift certificates. (Via RJ) The AV Club takes a look at 20 cases of The Darrin Effect, that being, when a character is recast and the result is jarring. (Via) The estimates say......

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July 18, 2008

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. XPN's 885 countdown this year will list the quintessential XPN songs. We're not even sure what that means, but you can go and vote right here. So what's next now that E3 is over? Comic-Con! EW has your photo gallery preview of the event (via). And check out the sweet Star Trek character poster! Amazon has launched a video streaming service called Amazon......

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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 23, 2008

As you might know, Counting Crows (MySpace) will be hitting the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden on August 9, along with Maroon 5 and Sara Bareilles. (Get tickets here.) We'll be doing coverage of the show when it comes around, but we thought we'd give you a little something to whet your appetite. Counting Crows are looking for one of you to design their summer tour poster. And by "one of you," we mean "someone,......

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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!......

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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 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......

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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.......

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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......

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May 20, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. The top 10 music moments in the movies. (Via) The trailer for the documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster, a film which looks at steroid abuse in America, is really pretty fantastic. Check it out. Michael Moore has a few more details about his next movie, and one of them is the working title: While America Slept. A couple of......

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May 19, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. A pretty sweet Punisher: War Zone poster is now available for viewing online. There had been talk about a Cloverfield 2, but now J.J. Abrams is saying he'd rather take the team that did the original film and do a completely new project with them, rather than a sequel. As you might expect, the restricted trailer for The Happening is even......

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May 15, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Beware, you Mr. Pinks out there who have been stiffing the wait staff! There is in fact an online database of lousy tippers at LousyTippers.com. (Via Sarah) Friends, you might want to swing by your local Dunkin Donuts and/or McDonalds today; apparently, they're both giving away free samples. (Via Sarah) This Phillyist doesn't care for reality TV, but we have to admit MTV's......

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May 13, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. If you watch TV at all, you've probably seen those rather odd new Coldwell Banker commercials which feature portraits of the company founders talking to each other. Well, as all things must these days, the portraits have a blog, which lately chronicled their visit to Philadelphia. The world is a strange place... (Via Megan) Um... what? We're a......

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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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February 29, 2008

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Check out this sweet poster for Takashi Miike's latest project, Sukiyaki Western Django. Here's hoping they manage to get a copy of this one for the Philadelphia Film Festival... We think we've already said this before, but each successive trailer for Iron Man makes us exponentially more excited about seeing the film, and the latest one is no exception. Hot damn, this movie......

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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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