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Blogged Around Philly: Farewell Edition
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The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.
- It is important that you watch the trailer for RoboGeisha as soon as possible. It may be the greatest movie trailer ever. Fried shrimp! (Via)
- The Sci Fi Channel is developing a new take on Alien Nation. (Via)
- A new trailer for Blood: The Last Vampire. (Via)
- Supposedly the average person can learn to "see" objects in the dark using echolocation after just a few weeks of training.
- Bill Nighy has joined the cast of the next Harry Potter film, and speculation is that he'll play veteran Auror Rufus Scrimgeour.
- Geek Dad considers one of the ultimate geek debates: who's the best starship captain, Kirk or Picard?
- A review of Michael Mann's Public Enemies.
- Word has it the Wii version of Brütal Legend has been canceled. We are sad now.
- Engadget's exhaustive analysis of the Wii MotionPlus. (Via)
- A review of The Conduit.
- The craziest costume changes in comics. (Via)
- You can read a prelude to Captain America: Reborn for free online. (Via)
- 6 gorgeous Twitter visualizations. (Via)
- A pretty fantastic story about a man's war with his dog that will be familiar to anyone who's ever owned a dog. (Via)
- Amber Benson on her new book and the new Buffy movie. (Via)
- Earthquake cloaks for buildings, based on invisibility cloak technology. Crazy! (Via)
- Darth Vader driving a sports car. (Via)
- A pretty hilarious photo blog: There, I Fixed It. (Via)
- A photo gallery of a giant model railroad.
- In celebration of Canada Day, an illustration of Canadian hero Zap Rowsdower! (Via)
- Seven famous Hollywood hoaxes.
- Fox is stopping production on Tony Scott's next project, Unstoppable, over budget concerns, and may can the project altogether.
- Another new trailer for Inglourious Basterds.
- More concept art for Alice in Wonderland.
- Michelle Trachtenberg and Jason Lee have joined the cast of Kevin Smith's A Couple of Dicks.
- Twitter's follower and following pages have recently been thoroughly redesigned.
- If famous novels were iPhone apps, what would they do?
- Important info for those considering attending San Diego Comic-Con: Leiasmetalbikini.com is organizing a Slave Leia Group Photo and Video Shoot at Gentle Giant's booth.
- DC's next direct-to-DVD animated film will be Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. It's not about Super and Batman fighting John Dillinger; it's about Lex Luthor declaring the two heroes enemies of the state.
- The Pixies are celebrating the anniversary of their album Doolittle by going on a European tour where they'll play the entire album plus related B-sides.
- Tiny paintings of big monsters.
- Super Punch posts some amazing Philip K. Dick book covers, and then goes one better and includes a roundup of great Blade Runner-related posts.
- Gizmodo's wonderful "provoke Kim Jong Il" Photoshop contest. (Via)
- Three Frames is a blog of animated gifs that are each just three frames from a movie played over and over. (Via)
- Heh.
- Kristen Bell will voice a character in the upcoming 3-D animated feature-film version of Astro Boy.
- Chris Columbus has been hired to direct the Jim Carrey-starring Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and the movie is turning into "a big fantasy adventure film where we believe that all of these oddities are possible."
- Mike Mignola talks about some of his upcoming projects.
- The supervillains take on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
- It's a tiny drill!
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