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April 28, 2008
Ross and I were invited down to Atlantic City this past weekend for a mini blogger meetup sponsored by the four Harrah's casinos there. I'll write more about that in this week's Return to Sender, but for now, I'm only mentioning it to set the scene. In all, there were ten of us in attendance. The two of us from Philly, two others from Chicago, and the balance from New York City. During dinner,...
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The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. The 14-wheel Segway. Why? Because it could be done. (Via) Check out coverage of ROFLCon, a two-day gathering of internet memes and the people behind them, at the Wired blog known as The Underwire. (Via Jill) Enjoy the truly epic preview for the third season of The Venture Brothers. A great and twisted show. Warning: The G.I. Joe parody sequence in...
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"April 27, 2008
Photo by Cy Goldsbie Torontoist kept its readers in the know during a surprise transit strike—it was announced by the workers' union just after 11:00 p.m. on Friday night, and went into effect by midnight—with a continually-updated status post.Gothamist readers commented extensively on the not guilty verdict of three NYPD detectives who were on trial for fatally shooting Sean Bell, an unarmed man, on his wedding day in 2006.It was an accident-prone week at...
Continue Reading "Week Around the Ists"April 25, 2008
This breaking news just in, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, and Joey Vento is still an asshole. Yes, that's right, our favorite grease-slinging dipshit (oh, and he sells soggy cheesesteaks, too) was back in the news this week. This time, he wasn't bitching about his court victory (which earned him Asshole of the Week a couple weeks back). No, instead, he was joining the clusterfuck debate about what went down in the campaign leading...
Continue Reading "Asshole of the Week"We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Phillyist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." UWISHUNU, because you wish you knew. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. Popped Music Festival, in Philadelphia on June 20, 21, and 22. If you're interested in advertising on Phillyist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....
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April 25, 2008
There is a debate on the best way to combat HIV/AIDS. Researchers are developing new treatments and possibly an HIV vaccine. What about those of us who gave up on our chemistry doctorate degrees after eleventh grade? Should we focus our efforts on better awareness campaigns? More accessible testing? Stronger policies? Why not fight HIV with a fork? You read right. Go out for dinner on May 1st. We know, it’s a Thursday night; you...
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A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. It's finally official: Guillermo del Toro will indeed be directing the movies based on The Hobbit. Hoorah! (Via Ross) America, prepare to be stimulated even earlier than you expected! Btw, we hear the government is considering following up the free money with some free bread and circuses. (Via Sarah) Warren Ellis has the normal collection of weird, interesting, and mind-blowing stories today. We...
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"April 24, 2008
We bring you the buzz from the 215 blogs this week: Phillybits was not a fan of some Hillary posters that knocked off Obama's artsy promos. We say imitation is the highest form of flattery, and that blue rendering does wonders to soften her image while still making her look powerful. Plus, we're guessing they weren't authorized by the campaign anyway. Johnny Goodtimes was mad as hell that Wawa appears to be abandoning the City...
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A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. In response to all the buzz over the botched box art for the Wii version of Okami, Capcom is offering to replace the art with one of three different designs. Go here to get yours. Apparently, the Lost Boys sequel is going directly to DVD (boo!), and you can see the cover art for said DVD here. Speaking of DVDs, apparently the deluxe...
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"April 23, 2008
Beneath the Remains During the 1800s in the town of Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, a group of antiquarians made a startling find. W.K. Morehead, Dr. G.P. Donehoo and A.B. Skinner of Philadelphia's American Investigating Museum unearthed giant skeletons said to originate from 1200AD. However, the most significant detail of these seven-feet tall frames was not the size but the skulls, upon which were situated horns above the eye sockets! If such skeletons were freaks of...
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The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Terrell Owens just may have shown up in the background of a photo from a hardcore porn shoot (which is, disappointingly, pretty safe for work). (Via Sarah) Penny Arcade points out that there are some things you really just don't need to put on Twitter. Don't mess with the Goddamn Batman. He knows lawyers. Heh heh. Apparently Uwe Boll got in...
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Author’s Note: I hate to be on the losing side. I think this covers me regardless of the PA Primary results. This morning I am a happy man, because my candidate for President just won the Pennsylvania Primary! And that candidate is Barack Obama / Hillary Clinton. It was a tough race. Barack / Hillary was down / up in the polls and then up / down in the polls which gave me a very...
Continue Reading "The Best Man/Woman Won"April 22, 2008
This week's New York Times Magazine features an article entitled "Why Bother?" by Michael Pollan (the author of must-reads The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto). In "Why Bother," Pollan states that the bleakest part of watching An Inconvenient Truth for him was "during the closing credits, when we are asked to . . . change our light bulbs. That’s when it got really depressing....
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The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Ultimate crossover! Some screenshots from the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion to World of Warcraft have leaked online. Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick says future installments of Guitar Hero will feature a lot of other instruments and vocals. They will also be called Rock Band. OK, probably not, but still. Joystiq has a bit more...
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes"Get out and vote today. You wouldn't want to make Puff Daddy P. Diddy Diddy Sean Combs angry, now would you?...
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April 21, 2008
Video game visual artist Don Miller (aka No Carrier)...
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Sci Fi Wire updates us on the progress of producer Joel Silver's Wonder Woman movie; sounds like now he's interested in doing her origin story, when before that was not his focus. Silver also says that the Justice League movie has been tabled for now. A bit more information on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe: the game's trademark ultraviolence will likely...
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices"April 20, 2008
Picture from forum thread on military.club.china.com. Shanghaiist was shocked by this highly provocative depiction of the state of Sino-US relations by a Chinese netizen.LAist fires up reactions when one reader describes getting a $200 ticket for smoking on a public sidewalk. Do you like Heinz Condensed Cream of Tomato Soup and misogyny, but can't figure out a way to unite the two? Torontoist featured one of the soup company's ads from 1950 that contains...
Continue Reading "Week Around the Ists"April 18, 2008
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Phillyist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." UWISHUNU, because you wish you knew. 18 in '08, an exclusive film screening tomorrow at the National Constitution Center. Busted Tees, which introduces three new designs a week. If you're interested in advertising on Phillyist or any other site in our network, check out our online mediakit....
Continue Reading "Thanks to This Week's Advertisers"We don't really like to cop out, but let's face it, this week was a total no-brainer. We're sick of talking about, and you're sick of hearing about, next Tuesday's Presidential primary. But, because we're sadistic and you're masochistic, we keep writing about it, and you keep reading about it. And being the gluttons for punishment that we are, we couldn't help but tune in to the Democratic debate between the Phillyist People's Choice candidate,...
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Michael Nutter wants to make college possible for more Philadelphians. As it stands, only 18% of Philadelphia residents have college degrees. A better educated community means a better economy, so he intends to adjust the budget to benefit the Community College of Philadelphia in an effort to achieve a higher percentage of educated citizens. This is all wonderful. So how come there are thousands of college grads without jobs? Sure, maybe we have jobs, but...
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A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Vintage porn posters! None of them feature any actual nudity, but you still might want to think twice about clicking at work. (Via Sarah, via Jezebel) An inmate in South Carolina has filed a request for a restraining order against Rockstar Games, GTA publisher Take-Two Interactive, and Grand Theft Auto itself, claiming that the group is responsible for his current prison sentence. He...
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions"Seriously, don't they have work to do?...
Continue Reading "[Apparent] WHYY Employees Are Weird"April 17, 2008
We bring you the buzz from the 215 blogs this week: Philebrity was as annoyed as we are with Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal's daily "one question for Obama" emails—especially since there is NO QUESTION MARK in the email. Oh... no question, Mark... no pun intended. Heh. The Philadelphia Turkey wrote about the battle for control of shrubbery at the Delaware Avenue casinos. The satire stars DiCicco and Nutter in the modern day version...
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Proofreading Philly tries to capture typos, wordos, and all other kinds of grammatical mistakes that we see around the city. But we need your help! Email photos to us from your computer or your phone, and show the city that you care about good grammar. Phillybits snapped this photo for us on his way into Tuesday's Drinking Liberally at Tangier in the Graduate Hospital neighborhood. He writes: "I guess the tension of this election is...
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April 17, 2008
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. After it came out that seven recipes listed on John McCain's campaign website as being "Cindy's Recipes" had actually been copied verbatim from the Food Network, the campaign blamed an intern, saying he'd "been dealt with" and that "we took away his zero pay." Heh heh heh. Meanwhile, a disturbing practice called microtargeting tries to connect consumer habits, like how people eat, with...
Continue Reading "Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday"April 16, 2008
Looking through hundreds of cases of strange monsters, eerie phantoms, bizarre flying objects and other anomalous phenomena, you'd be amazed at just how many of these incidents have simply been born from hysteria, exaggeration or twisted truth. This is not to say that a lot of hauntings, peculiar beast sightings and the like are hoaxes or easily explainabale, as they aren't, but this next case proves just how potent mere legend can be despite being...
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The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Supposedly Indy 4 is now locked down with a running time of 140 minutes. A possible plot spoiler for the next Star Trek can be found here. It's an interesting idea... Apparently Midnight Meat Train will be getting a theatrical release after all—just not in Canada. Those poor Canadians. Rumor is they might be taking the "Meat" out of the title,...
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