Battlestar Galactica is easily the best drama on TV! You're cut, The Wire! Get lost, Lost! Err, ER! If you can put the original campy Star-Wars knock-off (that we all loved back in the 70s) out of your head and give this Sci-Fi Channel reimagination a chance, you will be treated to some of the best writing, action, and drama this side of the Eye of Jupiter. (Plus some pretty hot "Human on Toaster" action.......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct both Hobbit movies. Woo hoo! Awards season continues! Cinematical was liveblogging as Sundance gave out their awards. The SAG and DGA awards also were announced, and the results seem to suggest that the Coen brothers' film No Country for Old Men is a shoe-in for an armload of Oscars. The Top 20 Geek......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. It's hard to tell yet if the movie's going to be much better than the first, rather disappointing, installment, but the trailer for Hellboy 2 is pretty cool. Some impressive Star Wars-themed cakes and confections. (Via) Check out the surprising and fascinating true history of Christmas (via Debbie). Or, if you prefer your Christmas slightly less true, check out NORAD's Santa Tracker instead......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Toren Atkinson (of the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, our favorite Canadian band that bases all its songs on the work of H.P. Lovecraft) has had a number of entertaining posts lately on his blog. Here's a list he put together of all the great stuff that's going to be on TCM this month. And here's a commercial he did a......

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A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Frank Darabont might adapt Stephen King's The Dark Tower into a movie series?! Now that's some good geek news. Here's a list we obviously couldn't not post: Fifteen Geek Movies to See Before You Die. We could quibble with the inclusion of Darkman (never understood why people like that movie - it's just really bad!), but the rest of the list is pretty......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A few days ago, Jess at Apropos of Something managed to catch one of those fleeting moments of comedic piracy that often occur on ye olde Wikipedia. In this case, it was an edit of Howard Cosell's entry, revealing that the man was a Decepticon. Thankfully, Jess was clever enough to steal a couple of screenshots before the......

We have so many crazy cool links that we've been saving to share with you that we're serving up a super giant sized glass of our favorite internet junk today, all still just for you. Contra comic! If you've never played Contra, it won't make much sense. But if you have, it's pretty funny. (Via) As you certainly should have noticed by now, Phillyist is a geek. So we were horrified and amused by this......

Heck, this Phillyist is a PC user, and even we're excited to learn that Apple co-founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak will be speaking at the Central Branch of the Free Library (1901 Vine Street) this Saturday at 2PM. Woz will be on hand to promote his book, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It , and, we imagine, basking in the adoration of......

God, we're so sick of Snakes on a Plane that we want to kill anyone and everyone that makes a "something on a something" joke. But then we realized that there was no way we could ever win this fight, and, hell, if you can't beat them, we might as well join them. And with that, you have the theme of this weeks' Gothamist network post. Austinist makes it easy for us, with Candidate on......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. A bunch of comic book fans get together and take the geekiness quotient of war re-enactment up a whole order of magnitude in this hilarious and highly entertaining video, originally from a podcast at Geek-Week.net. (Via) This great Flash video for the highly self-referential Beatles song "Glass Onion" appropriately makes all kinds of visual references to random Beatles iconography, including their album covers,......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Wired News has an interesting and kind of creepy article on the growing buzz and controversy surrounding artistic body implants. We're not talking about fake breasts here now; we're talking about jamming pretty much any sized or shaped chunk of silicone under your skin anywhere on your body (see above, or check out the link for more pictures). The way it works is,......

CBS 3 reports that the City of Brotherly Love is conducting a review of our current disaster readiness plans, which it then intends to have completed by the end of June, "just in time for the 4th of July holiday." (Phillyist thinks this is great, although we're not clear why Independence Day is relevant here, since any meaningful review completed on June 31st is unlikely to be fully realized by July 4th.) Pedro Ramos,......

What a week for reality TV junkies! On Wednesday, we have Beauty and the Geek: The Aftermath, which will only appeal to those who subjected themselves to the rest of the series. Wednesday's show does seem promising, though, as we will get to see Philly's own Krystal congratulate Penn medical student Chuck, who won it all last week [Wednesday, 8 pm, WB]. For those of who prefer "educational and cultural" to "shameless and sensational",......

We here at Phillyist learned that some TV execs were in our fair city this past weekend working on a top secret project. We weren't able to garner any further information --despite our wit and charm-- but our guess is it will involve thirty seconds of the Liberty Bell and the rest will be on an L.A. soundstage. And, speaking of soundstages, the only hit network show that takes place in (and has actually......

If you're not busy watching the Phillies play the Mets tomorrow night at 7, there's plenty of other Philly-related activity on TV. Although Philadelphia native Krystal was ousted from the guilty pleasure reality show Beauty and the Geek (WB, 9 p.m.), current Philly medical resident Chuck remains— and he just may end up duking it out with übergeek Richard. Or, for your old school viewing pleasure, WFMZ has a full hour every weeknight of......