A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. We posted a link to an xkcd comic a while back wherein a character created a virus that would force commenters on YouTube to listen to any comments they tried to make by reading their words back to them aloud. The idea was to shame them with their own stupidity. Clever and funny—and now, reality. The developers at YouTube created an option that......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Netflix reached a deal to provide via its streaming web service about 2,500 titles from the Starz movie library. (Via Sarah) Cinematical presents the greatest pie fights in movies, and seven horror remakes that don't suck. Tiberium, EA's Command and Conquer FPS, has been canceled due to its inability to meet quality standards. eBay has launched a new tool called the......

If you hurry, you can still bid on Michael's argyle sweater on eBay! We knew that the economic downtimes would mean bad things for the city, but we didn't realize it was this bad. Michael delivered the news to the City Council that the city's five-year financial plan was short by $450 million. Yikes. The first victim of the city's economic tightening: a would-be press aide for Michael's Managing Director. Michael unveiled the BenePhilly program,......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. This is pretty hilarious: Denny's just started offering a new Rockstar Menu, featuring dishes created by actual rockstars when asked what they like to eat late at night. We're particularly excited about the Heart on a Plate created by Jesse Hughes from Eagles of Death Metal. (Via Filter) Director Mathieu Kassovitz says a troubled production and some bad editing have turned......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. It's funny because it's true. Present company excluded, of course. (Via Sarah) Speaking of internet truths, we're sure you already know that for every incredibly odd and unlikely pass-time you can imagine, there is a website for it. Case in point: Hats of Meat, which celebrates making and wearing hats made out of raw meat. Why does this happen? We can't even begin......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Computerworld takes a look at how CAPTCHA was cracked, and the consequences of that event. (Via Slashdot, via Jill) Babble picks the 26 most disturbing kid movies ever. (Via Sarah) Justin Theroux will write the sequel to Iron Man, and Marvel is close to a deal that will bring back director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey Jr. The plan is......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. A pretty sweet Punisher: War Zone poster is now available for viewing online. There had been talk about a Cloverfield 2, but now J.J. Abrams is saying he'd rather take the team that did the original film and do a completely new project with them, rather than a sequel. As you might expect, the restricted trailer for The Happening is even......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Check out The Roots on Letterman. (Via Rowdy) An interesting split-screen video with the trailer for Dark Knight on the bottom and footage from the 1989 Batman on the top. You can also see a bootleg video of the new Dark Knight trailer, and a bootleg video of the trailer defaced by the Joker. And while we're talking bootleg trailers, here's......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Babble, a site for modern parents, presents the Top 10 Most Invisible Kids in TV History and the Top 50 Best Sesame Street Moments. HorrorMovies.ca managed to snag itself a bunch of images from Bruce Campbell's latest flick, helpfully titled My Name Is Bruce (via). Meanwhile, MoviesOnline has a pic from Kiefer Sutherland's upcoming movie, Mirrors, which sounds......

Local writer/director/producer Michael Gleason recently sent us a link to his short comic news piece called "Arrgh! Taxes!" which we were planning on profiling today given that it is April 15th. However, one of his other pieces struck a chord with us about a topic near and dear to this column's heart: environmentalism. In his clip "Eco-tistical," he defines being eco-tistical as "someone who is more concerned about looking like they are concerned about the......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Those guys at Google are freaking hilarious. (Via Jill) New Iron Man photos! Take a look at Movie Blog's copies quick, because Paramount has already gotten the site that originally posted them to take them down. If you head on over to the Adult Swim site, it appears that you can now watch the entire Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie online for free.......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Defective Yeti has collected together a lot of the best tributes to Gary Gygax on the web, including his own. Wired also had a cool D&D logo redesign contest in honor of Gygax. So remember how there was that guy whose one-of-a-kind signed Xbox 360 was ruined by Microsoft's repair technicians, and Bungie said they were going to help him out?......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Check out this sweet poster for Takashi Miike's latest project, Sukiyaki Western Django. Here's hoping they manage to get a copy of this one for the Philadelphia Film Festival... We think we've already said this before, but each successive trailer for Iron Man makes us exponentially more excited about seeing the film, and the latest one is no exception. Hot damn, this movie......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The upcoming print edition of Empire Magazine has a couple of cool new pictures from The Incredible Hulk. Looks like William Hurt makes a kick-ass General Ross! Rumor is that a sequel to The Last Starfighter is on the way, focusing on the son of the titular character from the first movie, and featuring the talents of the original writing, directing, and acting......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Chicagoist has discovered that animals like Obama for president. There's even a Venn diagram explaining it all! (Remember to digg it if you like it.) Exciting news! Warren Ellis announced late yesterday that he's launching a free weekly webcomic starting February 15th at FreakAngels.com. The plot sounds suspiciously like that of Umbrella Chronicles, but whatever. The point is, Warren Ellis webcomic!!!......

Our own Phillie Phanatic was crowned the #1 sports mascot in the country by The Marketing Arm's Davie-Brown Index and reported on Forbes.com. We’re not too clear on what a Davie-Brown Index is, nor do we care. Our beloved Phanatic, born in 1978, beat out the likes of Mr. Met, Famous Chicken, and the Racing Sausages (!) for the number one slot, meaning his “ability to influence brand identity with the public” was higher. How......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A father went to a lot of trouble to find a copy of Guitar Hero III for his son for Christmas, but when he caught the kid smoking pot, he put the game up for sale on eBay - and made 9,000 dollars. (Via Ross) A couple of inmates in New Jersey's Union County jail pulled their own......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Download Squad presents Five places to download free movies (legally!). In a similar vein, Wired's How to Wiki offers a list of sites where you can get free music - some legal, some not. Blabberize is a fun idea for a site. Use it to create and view talking pictures. You just upload a photo of a person or animal, use the capture......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Defective Yeti is celebrating Halloween with a list of links to the entire text of over 20 spooky stories. Here's a unique list: great pizza moments in film. Yum! (Via Sarah, via SlashFood) It's a joining together of geek-iverses for a good cause! "Fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly/Serenity will auction off an autographed script from SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica to......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. They're actually doing a third Underworld movie. Of course, it will be a prequel. It's called Underworld 3: The Rise of the Lycans, and it'll be the directorial debut of Patrick Tatopoulos, who did the creature effects on the first two movies. Apparently director George Miller will be working on Mad Max 4: Fury Road, Happy Feet 2, and Justice League of America,......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Authorized copies of US sitcoms are becoming really popular in Russia these days - especially the Russian version of "Married... With Children." Crazy! (Via Jason and Jill) You can now download a free demo of Quake Wars. We just thought you should know. (Via) Looks like a copy of Halo 3 might have slipped out early via eBay.......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Do Philly frat boys have the worst taste in beer ever? Well, this one does. Remember that interesting little Stickman guy we posted a photo of in a recent Photoist column? Here's some more info on him. As you are probably already aware, the latest adjustments to the iPod and iPhone product lines were announced yesterday. Here's reflections about it all from Nerd......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Movie Poop Shoot reveals to us that the worst live action comic book adaptation ever already happened back in 1979, so we have nothing to worry about from future adaptations. This worst of all possible adaptations took the form of an extremely short-lived TV show (only two episodes!) on NBC called Legends of the Superheroes, which was apparently an attempt to......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The lolcats thing continues to explode in popularity, and we will no doubt get sick of it very, very soon, but for now, enjoy some lolbats. As you might have guessed, that's the same thing as lolcats, but using images from Batman, instead of photos of cats. Our favorites are here and here. Wow, iTunes Music Store is now selling high quality (256......

The kid with the iPod who participated in the assault of Germantown High School teacher Frank Burd pleaded guilty yesterday to aggravated assault. Also pleading guilty was a man who stole 165 Civil War documents from the National Archives Philadelphia office. He sold between 70 and 80 of them on eBay - which is actually what got him caught. Now he could spend as many as 10 years in jail. Looks like Tom Knox's momentum......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. A sneak preview of Grindhouse is screening in Philly, TONIGHT. Sorry, we don't know exactly where or exactly when (little help, commenters?), but we see that some people are hitting Craigslist looking for tickets, so you could try there. Joystiq shows us how to create a Mii with Pac-Man chasing a ghost on his face. Very odd, but very impressive. Once you read......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. We usually don't like MadTV, but this sketch is pretty damn funny, even if they do make the metaphor maybe just a little too obvious. (Via) The Godzilla movies are finally getting some decent DVD releases, featuring the original Japanese and altered American versions of each film. Sweet! How big of a video game fan are you? Are you willing to spend over......

On Tuesday, cops and local FBI agents tracked down and eventually caught one of three suspects in a series of (heavily) armed robberies of fast food restaurants and convenience stores in Philadelphia, Yeadon, and Upper Darby - but not until after the guy ran from them across a series of rooftops in West Philly, occasionally jumping across gaps of 10 feet or more, just like in a movie! The cops followed a trail of......

Philllyist is greatly saddened that, with the passing of the Big Game, there is no more pro-football to be had for quite some time (the Pro-Bowl doesn't count. It really doesn't). However, in order to tide over our thirst for a rejuvenated Eagles making it all the way next season, we will take solace in the Philadelphia Soul, our very own arena football team. We told you that story to tell you this one: Jon......