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- Google fixed that crazy bug with Android that we mentioned yesterday.
- Barack Obama may be our favorite president ever! Amongst a list of 50 facts you might not know about him (via, via) are these items: he collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics; he has read every Harry Potter book; his favorite book is Moby-Dick; Casablanca is one of his favorite films; his favorite musicians include Miles Davis and Bob Dylan; he enjoys playing Scrabble; his favorite artist is Pablo Picasso; and "he hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside." Word! Also, Barack Obama = Jimmy Smits. And he has his own font!
- We've got new posters for Watchmen (uh... why does Ozymandias look like a girl?), and confirmation from the director that the ending has been changed; it will be more upbeat and will not involve a giant squid. Boo!
- The Mars Phoenix Lander has finally crapped out, two months after the originally scheduled end of its mission. We salute you, Phoenix!
- Ever wonder what the point of spam is? Certainly only one person in a million would actually fall for that crap! But they actually need only one person in 12.5 million to fall for it to make a profit. (Via Jill)
- Wired shows off the weirdest entries to their long-running Return to Sender contest (no relation to the Phillyist column).
- What everybody thought was true has been confirmed: pretty much all fast food is based on corn.
- Woo hoo! Trogdor will appear in the fifth and final episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.
- A while back Download Squad made a list of the top ten things that suck about iTunes. Now they've posted a list of ways to get around those sucky things.
- Will Smith's son Jaden Smith will be the new Karate Kid.
- Cinematical picks the seven best Bond theme songs.
- New Star Trek posters!
- Cinematical got to visit the set of Sherlock Holmes. They have notes and a gallery of photos.
- Jessica Alba to play hooker! World rejoices!
- Chevy Chase, Burt Reynolds, Vinnie Jones, Michael Madsen, and John Melendez have signed on to star in Not Another Not Another Movie. Chase will play the head of a struggling studio who leaves the job to his ex-con brother (Madsen). Then, "their equally inept gangster friend (Jones) takes over and assigns a production assistant (David Leo Schultz) to direct a spoof of spoof movies." Reynolds will play "an actor playing the director of the chaotic film within the film." The film will also feature many cameos by actors playing themselves spoofing previous roles. That sounds almost too meta and postmodern to us. But we are intrigued.
- YouTube just struck a deal with MGM to show full length television shows and films from the MGM archives for free.
- Enjoy this ad for the Kevin Bacon Movie Club!
- Beyonce is trying to nab the role of Wonder Woman.
- Here are some easy ways to iPhoneize your website, use your iPhone or iPod Touch in disk mode, and read books on your iPhone. And while we're talking Apple gadgets, looks like Apple's going to have its very own Wii Remote soon.
- Using Twuffer or FutureTweets to schedule your Twitter updates ahead of time seems a bit like cheating to us, but you go ahead and check them out if you want to. You big cheaters.
- What if the Matrix ran on Windows XP? Pretty funny.
- Download Squad told us the things Windows 7 was good at; now here's some basic things it isn't good at.
- Food as art, and art as food. (Via)
- Early Star Wars storyboards. (Via)
- Very cool stop motion animated video of Mega Man in action.
- Dance Dance Revolution the musical? Really?!
- Play LEGO soccer with your Wii Balance Board. It doesn't actually look all that fun or fast-paced, but it's still a cool hack.
- As he often does, Warren Ellis scared the crap out of us this morning, this time with the news that recent research may enable the creation of very small (inch or less) Micro Unmanned Air Vehicles carrying powerful and precise genetic weapons, possibly within twenty years.
- Underwire compares and contrasts James Bond and Jason Bourne.
- The 11th annual New York Chocolate Show featured models dressed as Lara Croft, Bat Girl, and a warrior princess, their costumes made partially from chocolate. (Via)
- A detailed look (poster, trailer, and film clip) at the hilarious and deeply wrong kung fu film, Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave.
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