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November 25, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. This is pretty funny—one or more people covered a poster for Twilight in the NYC subway with spoilers for the rest of the series. And a penis drawing. For more Twilight hilarity, check out this rejected screenplay (via). And finally, in all seriousness, it is kind of neat that the film had the best opening weekend ever for......

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November 20, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Apparently there's an artist who goes around making bizarre, fake roadside attractions, including one that commemorates the Union's plan to use dinosaurs against the South in the Civil War. Awesome! Our old friend Toren Atkinson dug up a bunch of fun movie rumors: Frank Miller might direct an adaptation of his own graphic novel, Hard Boiled; Djimon Hounsou will star in and produce......

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November 13, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Sarah Palin has said whether she runs for office again is dependent on God. So 23/6 is providing us with some handy prayers to try to keep her in Alaska. (Via Sarah) Get Your War On explains what a Barack Obama presidency will really mean. Truly hilarious. We are especially amused by the part about the "special mustache." (Via) We still can't quite......

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November 6, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Sad news: author Michael Crichton died Tuesday of cancer at age 66. Cinematical celebrates his work by picking seven films that were either made by him, or were based on his work. Sci Fi Wire takes a similar tack and picks his best hits and worst misses. You may have seen the vaguely amusing, Risky Business-style commercial for Guitar Hero: World Tour starring......

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November 4, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Wired has a couple of fun, presidential photo galleries up for Election Day: A Century of Presidents and Casting the Ballot in Elections Gone By. They've also got a fun story to scare the crap out of you: "optical-scan machines made by Election Systems & Software failed recent pre-election tests in a Michigan county, producing different tallies for......

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November 4, 2008

It's Election Day! Unfortunately, most of us don't get the day off, but we do get to vote. Philly.com has tons of coverage, on their blogs, and in various articles: the day is finally here; expect long lines at polling places in the area; Governor Rendell and Mayor Nutter recommend you hit the polls at midday to ease those long lines; stars of music and of sports were getting out the vote for Obama......

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October 16, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Today's election links: defective yeti's liveblog of last night's debate; a horrifying and hilarious interactive site imagining Palin as President (via Jill); a gallery of McCain and Obama movie posters; Wired offers a place to report any problems you might have while voting; John Cleese gives his opinion of Sarah Palin (via); and Hayden Panettiere takes a shot at John McCain. *snort* Penny......

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October 8, 2008

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. CNN's electoral map calculator is a pretty interesting little web app. The default values show you CNN's estimate for how the race will turn out, but you can switch any state you want to either candidate and see how that swings things (via Kevin). In other election news, the Maverick family points out that John McCain is not a maverick, by......

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September 25, 2008

Philebrity reminds us it's been 25 years since we saw Philly's favorite reporter, Jim O'Brien. The Philly Phight breaks down the Phillies Playoff possibilities. Philly Clout has the deets on Councilman Wilson Goode Jr. pulling a McCain media moment. SEPTA Watch likes the new SEPTA TV spots. This Phillyist agrees. But he still hates the bus. The Bicycle Chef takes us on a City Food Tour including two of this Phillyist's favorite food finds: DiBruno......

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September 23, 2008

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. At least some of the images included in Microsoft's "I'm a PC" ads appear to have been produced on a Mac. D'oh! The relatively new blog ThingsWithApproximatelyAsManyPeopleAsWasilla.com kind of explains itself. (Via Phillyist Contribute page) Defective Yeti has put out part one of his Halloween Gaming Guide. Woo hoo! Cinematical has what appear to be images of the......

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September 19, 2008

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. The rumor that Tom Cruise might voice the villain in the fourth Shrek film is apparently false. (Via Jill) Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be starring in the next Disney-ride-turned-film: Tomorrowland. Well, actually, Disney seems to be saying the movie is just a space-centric film and is not based on the Tomorrowland ride, but Variety says otherwise. *shrug* Deus Ex lead designer Harvey......

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April 24, 2008

We're sure you'll be missing these, now that the Primary is over.......

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April 23, 2008

What would Tom Shillue have thought of the "Philly's More Fun When You Sleep Over" campaign?......

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March 20, 2008

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Looks like Paramount Pictures wants Sam Raimi to spearhead a revival of the Jack Ryan franchise. Clint Eastwood is going to direct and star in a film called Gran Torino. Details are being kept under wraps, but the rumor is the film might be a new entry in the Dirty Harry series. Feeling lucky, punk?! We're not a huge fan of the work......

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February 4, 2008

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Nerd World has published excepts from the tax fraud and conspiracy trial of Wesley Snipes. Don't worry, they're not real. But they are hilarious. An interesting concept gadget: the inflatable mouse. Joe Johnston is officially the new director on The Wolfman. With that job filled again, the movie should be able to keep on schedule Video of an immersive desktop VR......

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January 21, 2008

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Life After People (Mon, 9PM-11PM, History Channel) - An interesting thought experiment: what would the Earth be like if human beings suddenly disappeared off of it? Of course, it's not all guesswork; they take a look at actual places that were abandoned by people and what happened in those cases. Moment of Truth (Wed, 9PM-10PM, Fox) - The debut of the new game show where contestants have......

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December 10, 2007

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Paranormal State (Mon, 10PM-11PM, A&E) - The debut of a new reality show featuring members of Penn State University's Paranormal Research Society investigating reports of paranormal phenomena. During this hour, they seem to be playing two episodes, one about a boy who can supposedly see dead people, and another about a supposedly haunted house where murders were committed. Independent Lens (Tue, 10PM-11:30PM, WHYY) - It's another Penn......

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December 3, 2007

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Who knew there was an annual symposium for cocktail robotics? Apparently it's called Roboexotica, it's been around for nine years, it just happened again weekend before last, and Wired has the photos. (Via Jill) This past weekend an auction of items formerly belonging to Ozzy Osbourne and his family raked in a lot of cash, with all the proceeds going to......

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October 16, 2007

Architecture in Helsinki (AIH) are shilling for Sprint. And we're totally okay with that. Now that we are TiVo-less, we have to watch commercials like everyone else. So it may not have been news to you, but we almost spit out our Blueberi and coke last night when we heard "Souvenirs" playing in the background of a Sprint spot. They've come far from when we last so them a year ago, and already they're......

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October 5, 2007

What's new and/or interesting at Philly theaters this weekend. Ira & Abby - Ira is a brilliant, neurotic Jew with tons of "issues" (hmm... where have we heard of that character before?), and Abby is a free spirit who likes to solve her friends' problems. They meet, fall in love, meet each other's parents, and decide to get married, all in just a few hours. Then, of course, a series of wacky shenanigans make them......

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October 3, 2007

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Sometimes, SNL reveals that they've really still got it. As they do in this beautiful musical love letter to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (Via Jill) "Engineers have shown how to grow forests of tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes onto the surfaces of computer chips to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where the chips connect to cooling devices called heat......

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October 1, 2007

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. Aliens in America (Mon, 8:30PM-9PM, The CW) - Here's an interesting show premise: a Pakistani Muslim exchange student named Raja comes to a Wisconsin town and is not exactly welcomed with open arms. In fact, in this first episode, his host family have to decide whether to send him back, as they weren't expecting a Muslim. We're betting they decide to keep him. He gets help adjusting......

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September 6, 2007

By Bill Hayes and Pencopal This week, the Renegade Phillyists are feeling slightly less hateful, but just as snarky. Think of it as haterade lite. So instead of picking people off one by one, we've decided to taze them. Bill's To Taze List: 1) The people at Pitchfork. If you've heard of an album, they probably think it blows. I've been listening to the latest Tegan & Sara album, The Con, and I have been......

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August 10, 2007

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. If you don't read comics, this New Comic Day BINGO game might still be funny to you. But if you do read them, it's really quite funny. We may have to go back over this past Wednesday's finds with this thing in hand and see if we can score ourselves a BINGO... (Via Mike V) Now here's a fun list: The 50 Greatest......

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August 2, 2007

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Check out this post by a Croatian comic-book artist about his favorite manga. It's as good a way as any to step into the weird and wild world of Japanese comics. Also check out the comments of the Drawn! post that led us to that list, as they contain even more recommendations. (Also, we second the recommendations of Death Note and Uzumaki, which......

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August 2, 2007

Phillyist is pleased as punch to welcome another writer to our staff – and not just because he's dating one of our editors. New staffer Ross Currie is a recent grad of Villanova Law, and he's due to start practicing at a Center City firm this fall. Provided that he's not spending too many late nights writing briefs, you'll be reading his thoughts on music (you can see the two guest posts he's written for......

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June 13, 2007

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Heh heh. Hearing somebody actually try to pitch some classic video games of the past makes you realize how insane the premises of some of them really are. (Via) Yay! 1UP has more terrible video game box art for us (via)! Meanwhile, Yahoo has the Top 10 Cheesiest Classic Game Commercials (via). You'd be surprised and amused by what odd combinations......

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May 3, 2007

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Pulp Muppets. We bet you can guess what it is based on the name. Our favorite part is that Eric Stoltz is already a muppet. (Via) The nominees for the 2007 MTV Movie Awards were recently announced, and you can vote for your picks right here. Although how you can pick anything decent out of the crappy lists of nominees, we're not sure.........

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May 1, 2007

Knox, facing tough opposition from the other candidates in ads and at a recent debate, decides to fight back with... more of the same! He just bought $400,000 worth of time for his TV commercials. The Kingsessing Recreation Center, site of an April 12 shooting, has long had, and continues to have, problems with drugs and violence. Residents don't feel the city is doing enough. The regular monthly meeting of the Kingsessing Recreation Center......

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April 17, 2007

Films: In the Shadow of the Moon, Fair Play, Wicked Flowers Future Screenings: In the Shadow of the Moon - Tue, April 17, 9:30PM at the Prince Fair Play - None Wicked Flowers - None I am pleased to point out that Dead Daughters, the completely awful Russian "horror" film that I was ranting about yesterday, has now been quietly removed from the Festival Favorites and replaced with a disturbing-sounding documentary called The Killer Within.......

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