The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A very amusing comic which imagines how Tarkin got the funding to build the Death Star. Well, Obama's victory is assured now: the lucky UFO alien supports him! (Via Sarah) Check out the very cool opening credits sequence for RocknRolla. (Via) Kristen Bell has signed to voice the female lead in the feature film adaptation of Astro Boy.......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. The most brilliant blog we’ve seen this week (present company excepted, of course): Cake Wrecks showcases professional cake-work gone terribly, hilariously wrong. Our favorite is the STD-riddled fruit. Enjoy! It’s a scene that might make Editor Jim regret giving up on a big wedding. Want to feel old? Then read about college students not knowing what Watergate symbolizes,......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. The secret process for making chocolate covered bacon. (Via Bob) Even more low quality scans of photos from the Dragonball set! Oh joy! (Via) Interesting spy photos from the set of Bruce Willis' latest, a sci-fi thriller called The Surrogates. (Via) The director of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, is reportedly working on a film about Senator Barack......

City Controller Alan Butkovitz will release an audit of the city's recreation centers and playgrounds in an 11:30AM press conference today. Charter schools in the city of Chester seem to be successful, but the school district is having a hard time coping with the drain they put on available resources. Meanwhile, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission will hold the first of two scheduled public hearings today on the proposed closing of two troubled city......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. The villain in the next Iron Man film just might be The Mandarin; director Jon Favreau had some interesting things to say about the character. (Via Ross) The New York City Opera has commissioned Charles Wuorinen to compose an opera based on "Brokeback Mountain," the short story that has already famously been adapted into a movie. The opera is scheduled to......

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......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Warren Ellis reveals which comic hooked him on the medium. (Via) The best invention ever? You decide. (Via Sarah) Uwe Boll on the internet petition we mentioned yesterday. Turns out he can make an entertaining movie! The top 25 child stars of all time, according to Moviefone. The NHL is recruiting famous fans to write blogs about hockey. Included are Jason Reitman and......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. The A-Team movie has a release date! Gas up the van and get a plan together for getting to the theater on June 12, 2009. The picture's a little dark, so it's hard to see too many details, but this first look at Snake Eyes from the G.I. Joe movie is still pretty exciting. Record industry execs report that they're in preliminary conversations......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Bad news: star of the third Mummy movie, Maria Bello, says that not only will there absolutely be a Mummy 4, but she's signed on for three more sequels. Argh! In other news about sequels to bad movies, Bryan Singer has said yes, he is still planning to direct a sequel to Superman Returns. He and the writers are back in......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. The sad news has spread quickly across the internet that co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons Gary Gygax has died. A local blogger and former Phillyist read that article we posted yesterday about the decade's most misogynistic films and got so pissed he decided to analyze and deconstruct the entire thing in an impressive rant. Thanks, yagathai! Now we feel good about......

What kind of octogenarian would you like to be? Us, we’ll be Merce Cunningham please. At 89 the famous choreographer is not only still creating works, but continues in his tradition of pushing the technological envelope by combining dance with accompanying music in unique and often fantastical ways (dude’s had Radiohead compose for him. That we’d love to see). Merilyn Jackson has a wonderful article tracing some of his collaborations and technological innovations in the......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. How about those Oscars? If you just want a list of all the winners, IMDB can help (go Coen brothers! Woo!). Cinematical, of course, was liveblogging the entire thing. Joystiq celebrated Wii Tennis' short cameo at the ceremony, and even embedded the video. Cinematical also found a great LJ post with links to YouTube videos of 46 of the animated shorts......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. How about a deep-fried, cheese-filled burger patty made entirely of bacon? We'll take a couple over here, please! (Via) Cinematical points out that pretty much anything you might want to know about Cloverfield has now leaked online, so they're going to stop talking about it now. But if that's still not enough for you, Phillyist's cousin LAist has an interview with the director.......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. One way to keep up with the various presidential candidates is Red Lasso's Debate Tracker. You can check out debate clips based on location, topic, or candidate. (Via Kevin) The MST3K crew are back and riffing on movies again! You can read more on their first DVD offering, The Oozing Skull, and even order a copy, right over at CinematicTitanic.com right......

Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know! 10. Cross – Justice While this debut album by French duo Gaspard Auge and Xavier de Rosnay leans heavily on the discography of fellow Parisians, Daft Punk, it breaks out on its own......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Blender has annoyed us with their lists before, but we can't help but post something that claims to be The 100 Greatest Rock & Roll Movies of All Time. And we do like a lot of their picks in the top ten (even if they did include the horrendously bad, incredibly overrated Purple Rain). Could DC be planning to kill off Bruce Wayne/Batman??......

We know the album's been out forever, but everytime our iPod plays that Amy Winehouse song, we find ourselves bellowing along. We're not sure such vocal stylings are for public consumption, but we're thinking after a few sips of the Cap'n, the public's gonna have to listen whether they like it or not. Why? Because tonight we're going to Karaoke Obscura, a DIY karaoke event that happens the first Thursday of every month at......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. A 13-year-old hacker has done what 13-year-old hackers do and put together a handy packaged script that will crack open your iPod Touch, allowing you to access the file system and put whatever you want on there. (Via Sarah) Here's a wiki project we're kind of in awe of - and kind of horrified by. The entire Bible......

The 24 hours preceding the Honorary Title concert at the Electric Factory had gone just about as well as any 24-hour period in my life, and it was gonna be pretty difficult for anything to kill my happy buzz Friday evening. Well, the Electric Factory tried its damnedest. We went to the Factory straight from happy hour, so we had our work messenger bag with us. No biggie, right? All we had in it were......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Reggie at Nintendo says no, they almost certainly will not have enough Wiis for everyone this holiday season - and it's all because the console is so incredibly popular, and not at all due to production problems. Way to spin it, Reggie! Heh. You can plug your iPod into a rock. Adrian Paul says the future of the Highlander series is......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. You might have heard about a little game called Halo 3 getting released late last night/early this morning. Game|Life has the details on the midnight release party at a Best Buy in Manhattan, while Joystiq covers a non-launch in Boston and an actual, celebrity-infested launch in LA. Beware, however! Rumor is that the limited edition packaging for the......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. First of all, it's important to mention that today is Talk Like a Pirate Day. In honor of this excellent holiday, check out Shiny Shiny's list of the top 5 pirate goodies (via Sarcasmom). This is a particularly wonderful list, because it is also in honor of Star Foster, who was a giant fan of Talk Like a Pirate Day, and......

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......

Musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova...

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Apropos of Something has declared today International Onomatopoeia Day! We would like to contribute with a great big healthy KRAKA-BA-DOOM!!! CNET blog parent.thesis is making a big deal out of the fact that you have to submit your Social Security number to activated your iPhone, but we're not too outraged or surprised by the news. Who doesn't want your SSN these......

Last Friday, we decided to grab some food at World Cafe Live and enjoy the opening band, The Kin. We were headed off to The Polyphonic Spree later in the evening, but instead of the regular restaurant in Northern Liberties, we thought we would try something new. Not only was the food great (though they don't have many menu items) the entertainment was even better. The Kin are from Adelaide, Australia though they just......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. There's a very cool Ryan Adams contest running right now. Create the ultimate iMix of Ryan Adams songs, based around a theme of your choosing, then submit it here. The grand prize winner will get an iPod Nano, Adams' album Easy Tiger in digital format, and his/her iMix will be included in the digital booklet. Joystiq has a ton of videos featuring in-game,......

Even though we kinda just bitched you out for not going to smaller venues and supporting smaller artists, we would love it if you joined us tonight over the bridge at Camden's large outdoor venue, The Tweeter Center. Yes, we're sure there will be a lot of emo and punk kids there but for whatever it's worth, it's going to be an experience and hopefully a fun one. The 2007 Honda Civic Tour features five......

Alan Andrews Jr. of The Photo Atlas...

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. This video of comedian Rob Paravonian is absolutely hilarious, and completely frightening. We always knew there was a reason that we hated that song! (Via) Know how surprise endings have a tendency of getting out? (See, The Sixth Sense, The Crying Game, The Usual Suspects.) Well, JK Rowling would rather hers didn't. Dude. We so want one of......