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Blogged Around Philly: Farewell Edition
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- Scott Adams has invented an amusing new holiday: Negative Christmas.
- The official Star Wars Father's Day gift guide. (Via)
- The 12 most unfortunate product names. (Via)
- Hot Chicks with Stormtroopers is another of those blogs that has a very self-explanatory title. (Via)
- A Doctor Who lookalike was buried in a TARDIS coffin (via). Also, an article on Trock, or Time Lord rock.
- Conan responds to the claim that his backdrop looks like a Super Mario Bros. game. (Via)
- Turns out the control room for the Death Star's planet-destroying laser was actually the control room for a steam plant in LA. (Via)
- Brilliant fan-made Star Wars video: IG-88: The Dancing Robot. (Via)
- Liam Neeson is in talks to play Hannibal in the A-Team movie! (Via)
- Researchers backed by Darpa are making progress creating "'programmable matter' that can be ordered to 'self-assemble or alter their shape, perform a function and then disassemble themselves.'"
- So you may have heard that Apple made a few announcements yesterday about a little gadget called the iPhone 3GS. Gadget Lab was liveblogging the event and Geekologie has a little roundup. Nerd World suspects the way has been paved for X-rated apps. Speaking of which, check out this huge, throbbing wall of apps (via)!
- Eighteen challenges in contemporary literature.
- A homemade solar quadricycle.
- Dreamworks has agreed to develop Heroes star Masi Oka's feature film The Defenders, about a group of MMORPG players who get together for a real-life adventure.
- What's up next for Neil Patrick Harris.
- Tantalizing updates on all of the upcoming Marvel comic book movies.
- That guy who plays a vampire in Twilight is going to play a half-vampire sheriff in Priest.
- Kevin Eastman reveals some new info on the Heavy Metal remake: David Fincher, James Cameron, Zack Snyder, and Gore Verbinski will all direct segments, and the dudes of Tenacious D will do a comedy segment. This is a movie that this Phillyist thinks could actually benefit from a remake, since the original was pretty cheesy and lame, so we're cautiously optimistic.
- Monsters, Inc. 2 is on the way! Also, Disney is pushing back the next Pirates movie in favor of The Lone Ranger.
- Another online movie service just went into private beta: Epix.
- Over 40 awesome free Windows apps you can download in 2 seconds.
- Download Squad takes a look back at 25 years of Tetris.
- Four free Photoshop-style programs.
- Pretty cool in-mirror MP3 player.
- Free new song from Son Volt.
- Eyes-on with Tales of Monkey Island and hands-on with God of War 3, Samurai Shodown: Edge of Destiny, Brütal Legend, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, and Wii Fit Plus.
- The 500 most frequently used words on Twitter.
- More E3 leftovers and responses! Geekadelphia has a video roundup and the industry seems happy with the event.
- Cool Godfather toy. (Via)
- Super Punch presents South Park versions of the characters from Song of Ice and Fire, book-related cakes, and 6 real islands way more terrifying than the one on Lost.
- Fail Whale sculpture. (Via)
- Tron's Sark as a Munny. (Via)
- An amazing giant in a diving suit puppet.
- The Creature from the Black Lagoon's motorcycle helmet.
- A review of Batman and Robin #1 from Sci Fi Wire. This Phillyist loved the comic.
- So what are the Battlestar Galactica alumnae doing? Mary McDonnell and Michael Hogan are talking cybernetics at the N.Y. Science Festival, Katee Sackhoff is joining the cast of 24, and Tricia Helfer is now a puppet!
- John Leguizamo talks about his role in Gamer, Queen Latifah talks about the All of Me remake, Evan Rachel Wood talks about the Spider-Man musical, and Daniel Radcliffe talks about his future after Harry Potter.
- Sci Fi Wire reveals the impressive cast of the Sci Fi Channel's upcoming four-hour movie event Alice, which is a modern-day spin on the Lewis Carroll stories.
- How your favorite sci-fi TV series are getting ready for fall.
- Meat dress!
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