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Blogged Around Philly: Farewell Edition
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The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.
- Take a look inside a new gaming PC that takes the liquid-cooled principle to a new level by submerging everything in a tank of coolant.
- Stephen King picks the ten best films of 2008. (Via)
- The 10 most disappointing games of 2008. We have to sadly agree with the inclusion of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. We'll give that game another try one of these days, but so far it's nowhere near as cool as it looked like it was going to be.
- Yesterday was Monkey Day!
- Ooh, ooh! Bootleg video of the Wolverine trailer! Watch it quick before it's gone. It's pretty awesome. We love Wolverine's last line there. We hope he's just as bad-ass when he hosts the Oscars.
- Check out a very lengthy trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic. (Apparently it's actually the first installment of a video documentary.) Many huge promises are made. We'll see how many they actually deliver on.
- A bunch of preview pics from Warner Brothers' 2009 films, including Sherlock Holmes and Where the Wild Things Are.
- Cinematical has lots of tantalizing news about geek movies: the villain for Iron Man 2 has been chosen, but won't be announced until later; Guy Ritchie says Sgt. Rock's script is done, it will be set in WWII, and it will feature Easy Company; and solo movies for Magneto and Deadpool are on hold until the studio sees how well Wolverine does.
- A site called Urlesque has handed out awards for all-around internet awesomeness with its 2008 Urlies. You can see all the winners here. (Via)
- Rumor confirmed: Chris Weitz will be directing New Moon.
- We talked a while back about a Twilight poster that had been defaced with spoiler graffiti; now posters for Marley & Me are getting the same treatment.
- Tom Cruise might reprise his role from Tropic Thunder in videos, or maybe even a feature film.
- Three TV spots for The Spirit. Yep, still looks terrible!
- Another good reason not to use Internet Explorer: versions 5 through 8 have a bug that allows attackers to execute malicious code on your machine under certain conditions.
- Star Trek will be released simultaneously in conventional theaters and in big-screen IMAX theaters on May 8, 2009.
- Sci Fi Wire has exclusive cover images from Marvel Comics' upcoming miniseries, War of Kings, which tells the story of a cosmic war. (Marvel could have given them some better quality images, though. Jeez.)
- An unofficial World of Warcraft restaurant has opened in China.
- The Movie Blog has picked an alternative dream cast for Dragonball: Evolution.
- A December 18 release for the Wii Rock Band 2 has been confirmed.
- Some details, including track titles for Guitar Hero: Metallica.
- A making-of video for Coraline.
- A Thor Transformer that turns into a jet. That's just weird.
- A robot dog that you can ride, and that breathes fire. Awesome.
- In this post, which features Saruman rocking out, there's also a link to a story about a guy with his name tattooed on his neck who tried to give the police a fake name. D'oh.
- The internet contains so much essential information, like how to make a plush severed horse head.
- Turns out the digital copy of the film that comes with certain editions of The Dark Knight, and which is said to "play anywhere," actually plays in a decidedly smaller number of places. (Via)
- Giant Big Wheels! Awesome.
- Penny Arcade's comic about the shortcomings of PlayStation Home is pretty funny, but the brutal deconstruction of it in the news post is even funnier.
- Yoda Christmas tree lights!
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