The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.
- A list of the 2009 Hugo Award Winners. Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book won for Best Novel and Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog won for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. (Via)
- Jon Favreau tweeted the link to a bootleg video of the Iron Man 2 footage shown at Comic-Con, and asked for fan reaction. Our reaction? Two thumbs up, plus a WOO HOO!
- Let's turn Philadelphia into the video game development capital of the world! We like this idea very much.
- Here's video of a kid solving two Rubik's Cubes while simultaneously successfully playing a song in Guitar Hero on Expert difficulty level. What?!
- We'll admit it: we think this Who Framed Roger Rabbit?/Alice in Wonderland mashup illustration is ridiculously hot (via). We also enjoy, on a different level, this Wizard of Oz/Star Wars mashup painting (via).
- Jay Chou is Green Hornet's new Kato.
- Beware those of you who like short URLs: Tr.im is shutting down!
- A new trailer for The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Looks cool! Casting Tom Waits as the devil was pure genius.
- Tim Roth says he's signed on to reprise his role as the Abomination in three more films. Sweet!
- Rumor has it that the long troubled Halo movie might be taken over next by none other than Steven Spielberg.
- Adam Shankman says his next directing gig will be on a new Sinbad movie (the mythical sailor, not the horrible comedian) that will take advantage of modern-day visual effects.
- Silent Hill-themed My Little Ponies (via). *shiver* Also, samurai riding My Little Ponies.
- Cute and slightly disturbing Comic-Con kids costumes (via). And while we're doing photos of fun costumes, how about the League of Extraordinary Stormtroopers (via)?
- Check it out: new Radiohead track. (Via)
- An interesting analysis of the two unaired episodes of Dollhouse. (Via)
- A word game that just might eat up large portions of your day. (Via)
- We think this list of the "15 Worst Movie Titles" is itself mistitled. It should be called the "15 Most Awesome Movie Titles." Well, okay, 10, 13, and 15 are legitimately bad titles, but the rest are unique and cool in their own way. (Via)
- A depressing reminder that television is a monster that hates what is good and smart and creative and loves what is bad and stupid and boring. (Via)
- The Sony camera robot knows who to take a photo of and when!
- Cinematical asks Hasbro to please stop making movies based on toys and games, and lists seven rejected toy-into-movie concepts.
- Cinematical reviews G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti's new, weird, Charlie Kaufman-esque film.
- Topless Robot picks 9 sci-fi TV spin-offs that should never have spun off. They're mostly good choices, but Enterprise? We admit Enterprise got pretty cheesy, but it wasn't all bad. And hey, we love K-9! (Via)
- Did you hear about the guy who blamed his cat for downloading child porn onto his computer? Well, good news: the cat has been cleared of all charges!
- That loud noise you heard was the gamers in China breathing a huge sigh of relief: they got their World of Warcraft back (though slightly edited).
- Burger King has its own version of that zombie flip-over shirt; theirs turns you into the King.
- Cute Star Wars stickers.
- The trailer for Ninja Assassin. (Via)
- This BioShock 2 beach event looks like it was pretty cool.
- This Super Punch link roundup is full of cool stuff: rejected Twitter mascots, a horrible story about a meal for gluten intolerant kids that included gluten, a creepy story about a family living in an otherwise completely empty 32-story condo in Florida, and a fascinating discussion of obesity and diet.
- Ozzy's at BlizzCon 2009!
- The full BrĂ¼tal Legend soundtrack revealed.
- More details on PAX 2009 have been revealed.
- Guitar Hero 5 will allow players to import some tracks from previous games for a small fee. It will also feature a playable Johnny Cash.
- A new The Beatles: Rock Band trailer.
- Tarantino talks about the long-awaited full release versions of Kill Bill and Grindhouse.
- Courteney Cox gives up more details on Scream 4.
- The one of his many projects that Robert Rodriguez is focusing on at the moment: Machete.
- The new V will premiere Tuesday, November 3rd at 8PM.
- Fran Kranz, star of Cabin in the Woods, lets slip just a few small details about the movie.
- Heh.
- Playing Half-Life with a real gun.
- A Chinese farmer built his own helicopter out of wood, we assume during the period when World of Warcraft was down.
- Finally, a translator for your dog!
- So have you seen this Shake Weight thing? It's... something.
- Here's a pancake making machine that apparently spits out 200 pancakes per hour.
- Unfortunately, it sounds like McG is going to make another Terminator film. Sigh.
- Wait... the new Barbarella is not going to be campy? Just stop making it now.
- A dozen things you may not know about District 9.
- A gallery of scary monster models.
- If Star Wars Was Real.
- The Spider-Man musical is being held up by a lack of funds.
- Science fiction's silent but deadly characters.
- T-shirts celebrating hometown monsters! We want one for Philly! Although what the monster would be we're not sure.
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