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......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Go and watch this ASAP. It's a bootleg video of the Star Trek trailer, and we don't know how long it's going to be available. For more on Star Trek, check out Sci Fi Wire's interesting interview with the new Kirk, Chris Pine. More on John Boorman's Wizard of Oz! It will supposedly be serious and faithful to the novel. Also,......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. "For the first time, astronomers have taken a visual image of a multiple-planet solar system beyond our own." Very exciting. DARPA's finally going to get us our flying cars! New Watchmen trailer! We still have misgivings, but we have to admit, it looks really, really good. Game|Life takes a look at the long lines for Wrath of the Lich King, and then gives......

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......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Get a first look at the new Enterprise! Actually it's the old Enterprise. But you know what we mean. (Via) We're sure you all remember the Sarah Palin porn spoof, Nailin' Paylin. Well, now a Florida-based porn director named Cezar Capone wants to do it with the real thing! He's willing to pay Palin $2 million to appear in an adult......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Google fixed that crazy bug with Android that we mentioned yesterday. Barack Obama may be our favorite president ever! Amongst a list of 50 facts you might not know about him (via, via) are these items: he collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics; he has read every Harry Potter book; his favorite book is Moby-Dick; Casablanca is......

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......

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......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. It's official: Jon Favreau will direct Iron Man 2 and executive produce The Avengers, and Robert Downey Jr. will reprise his role as Tony Stark/Iron Man in both films. Meanwhile, rumor has it that Christian Bale will play Dr. Strange. We like the idea, but we find it hard to believe Warner Brothers/DC Comics would let that happen. Batman in a......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Pretty cool stop-motion animated chess match. (Via Sarah) A new candidate—a new Palin, in fact—has entered the race for president, and we fully support him (via); the five best places to follow presidential polls; beware the Cylons; how Terry Tate, Office Linebacker feels about Palin and voting in the election; a simple quiz to determine whether you are a "real" American......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Woo hoo! Good news for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles! Fox has picked up the show for a full season, ordering the back nine episodes of the second season. In honor of the recent release of Max Payne, Time picks the top 10 worst video game movies. (Via Sarah) Early reviews of Quantum of Solace are in, and they're quite positive.......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Terrence Howard's being replaced by Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2. This is sort of good news, insofar as we really love Don Cheadle, but we also feel oddly sad to see Howard go. He really seemed to want to put on that suit. Ah, well. Behold, the hottest movie-related Halloween costumes of 2008! We're happy to hear that "slutty Playboy......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Plenty of fun stuff has come out of Blizzcon, so settle in. Joystiq has coverage of the lore panels for Diablo III and Starcraft II. More importantly, Earnest at Game|Life actually got his hands on Diablo III. We're a little dubious about some of the changes he describes, but his impressions seem very positive overall, so we'll see. Anyway, the screenshots......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. As far as we can tell, the hottest thing on the internet right now is this video of a monkey waiter in a Japanese restaurant. Enjoy! (Via Sarah) How about some fun quizzes? We've got one on super hero secret identities (and if that one's too easy for you, here's another), and one on Harry Potter spells. (Via Sarah) Joystiq recaps its coverage......

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, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Read about the winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prize, "the annual award given by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for oddball but often surprisingly practical scientific achievements." It turns out Coca-Cola is a spermicide, and strippers make more money when ovulating. (Via Sarah) Today's bunch of political links: Colbert and Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt discuss the parallels between the......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. The iTunes Music Store could be closed soon. The Copyright Royalty Board is scheduled to hand down a decision today on royalties paid to publishers and songwriters for downloaded music, and if those rates are increased by six cents per song, Apple says it will have to shut down the iTunes Music Store because it will no longer be profitable. (Via Sarah) Nintendo......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Japanese newspapers are reporting that a new version of the Nintendo DS will be announced soon which will include a camera and music playback. Woah. The entertainment world suffered another in what seems like a long line of painful losses this year with the death this weekend of Paul Newman. Sorry, fellas, she's taken now: Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds got......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. How do you make great foods better? Combine them! Check out french fry-coated bacon on a stick and brownie chunk cookies. (Via Sarah) Jack Thompson will be permanently disbarred as of October 25, and he's also been ordered to pay monetary restitution of $43,675. Woo hoo! Of course, Thompson has filed a request seeking an emergency stay of the decision, claiming that it's......

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......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Cinematical smashes a couple of casting rumors (no, Will Smith is not playing Captain America, and no, David Boreanaz is not playing the Green Lantern), reveals that Brett Ratner would be interested in making the new Superman movie, and gives us the scoop on early preview screenings of G.I. Joe and Star Trek (the general feeling seems to be that Joe is bad......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Time picks SNL's ten most dubious hosts. The host from the most recent episode, Michael Phelps, makes the list (via Sarah). Phelpsy's episode wasn't all bad, though; after all, it also included the Space Olympics (via). More sad news: Richard Wright, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, has died at age 65 after battling cancer. (Via......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Another fun, geeky blog for us to read: Super Punch. (Via Amy) Defective Yeti's amusing thoughts on the Republican National Convention. If you hit Google this morning, you may have noticed that the logo is devoted to the Large Hadron Collider. That's because they switched the LHC on today, an event that some said would destroy the world. But because it's......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. America, in the person of San Francisco native Craig Billmeier, AKA Hot Lixx Hulahan, has won the Air Guitar World Championships. We are swelling with patriotic pride. Our sister site LAist reports on a woman who continued Twittering even while having a baby. That's dedication. Looks like no Preacher on HBO after all. The new head of HBO felt the adaptation was just......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. NME profiles an American teen who quit school to work on perfecting his Guitar Hero game. His skills have already netted him prizes, and he hopes to go professional eventually. Oh, and don't worry—his parents have hired him a tutor so he can continue his education. (Via Ross) On September 1st, you can go into any participating Chik-Fil-A wearing a sports......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Supposedly Abbie Cornish will star with Jake Gyllenhaal in a film about a private expedition to the moon to create a Lunar colony. Which could be a bit awkward, as Cornish is Jake's current girlfriend Reese Witherspoon's ex-husband Ryan Phillippe's current girlfriend. We don't know about you, but this Phillyist's head is spinning. The release of Quantum of Solace has been pushed back......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Yesterday was the 26th anniversary of the release of the compact disc. The Listening Post at Wired celebrates by wishing for no more happy returns. (Via Jill) Also celebrated by Wired recently was the 10th birthday of the iMac. (Via Jill) Apparently Daniel Radcliffe is getting naked again—and this time it's for Harry Potter. Wha?! Also, Radcliffe revealed recently that he......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Apparently McDonalds franchisees have been complaining about having to advertise for the dollar menu, their point being that it makes little sense to pay extra to publicize something that brings in less revenue. So McDonalds is considering changing things, starting with the double cheeseburger. Specifically, they're thinking about either making it more expensive, or taking the cheese off. If they go with the......