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......

Hey there, readers! I'm back liveblogging the second day of the First Annual BlogPhiladelphia "unconference." This post will be constantly updating throughout the day, so it's going to stay at the top of the Phillyist main index. But be sure to scroll down for the rest of our regular content, and see full liveblog after the jump! (Meanwhile, forgive us any resulting funny HTML, folks. We're fixing mistakes as soon as we find them.)......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. What was originally going to be a bongos-controller racing game for the GameCube is now coming to Wii with the title DK Bongo Blast, and it'll be controlled using the Wii Remote and Nunchuck. Sadly, it doesn't have a US release date yet (they get it in Japan on June 28, those lucky bastards), but in the meantime,......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Apropos of Something is pretty excited about the pending release of Spider-Man 3 - thus today's list of The Ten Best Superhero Movies of All Time. We can't say we agree with all Jess's picks, though. We don't really get the campy '60s Batman, or the Spider-Man movies. Batman Begins would probably take the top spot on our list, with the......

Ladies and gentlemen, the full definition of Social Media, according to Wikipedia (since, you know, it's infallible): Social media describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives with each other.A few prominent examples of social media applications are Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), YouTube (video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), Digg (news sharing), Flickr (photo sharing) and Miniclip (game sharing). These sites typically use technologies such......

NBC News tells the truth about the Iraq violence Monday night’s NBC Nightly News marked a milestone in the ongoing Iraq War – they called the sectarian violence a civil war. Brian Williams changed the political/media equation by saying, “Good evening. Tonight there are moving parts on several fronts, all related to the fighting in Iraq. This begins what may be a crucial week in determining future U.S. Involvement in what has become a civil......

- Philly voters are mad as hell about violence and corruption in our city (ed- ah, James, you're not alone!) - at least mad enough to voice their opinion in a survey. Opinion polls are all well and good, but the voting polls are what count. (via) - Last week it was identity theft, this week's crime - dealing illicit prescription drugs. - And speaking of drug-dealing - what's worse than getting picked up by......

- PhillyBits has a few words say about the President's self-proclaimed best and worst moments in his presidency. (And really, when the best moment of a president's term has to do with a recreational pursuit, few words are necessary.) - By way of DIGG, Phillyist discovered this website, which features the "full audio from the rare LP record First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival," from 1979. It's musically geekalicious. - Josh from the SkaroffBlog needs......

The "Greatest Generation" may have had Walter Winchell, but many compatriot's of Phillyist's generations trusted someone else to give us the news in trying times: Peter Jennings. Therefore, we are especially pleased to learn that Philadelphia's own National Constitution Center will be using a portion of their grant from the Annenberg Foundation to create the Peter Jennings Institute for Journalists and the Constitution. The institute, which will be supervised by local columnist Jane Eisner, will......

Writing for an online journal, one does not get to bring mighty machines to a screeching halt by shouting "Stop the Presses!" when we come upon a new piece of information; which is sad, really, because it always looks like so much fun when those fast-talking, wise-cracking, fedora-wearing journalists in the movies do it. Some times Phillyist really wishes we were still in the days when the world was black and white. Or that we......

Dr. Drew Pinsky is mad. About the Discovery Channel, no less. We're sitting with him - and sex journalists from around the country - in the penthouse of the W Hotel in New York City, where he's hosting a conversation with us about anything and everything, from sex in America to STD's, from his stint on Loveline to his new radio partnership with the toothy Man Show staple, Adam Carolla. And he's pissed. "How many......

We've passed the era where we'd start new blog posts with something along the lines of, "If you haven't noticed, everyone has a blog now." Cause let's face it, everyone has two blogs now. Except, well, the 76ers. But they do have one. 76ers television personality Marc Zumoff is following (yeah, the headline is wrong, he's not stalking anyone) Allen Iverson throughout the star's promotional Reebok tour in Asia. It's sort of like that blog......

Tomorrow the hordes will descend on the Parkway to enjoy music and what will no doubt be an very close closeness with their fellow man, as Philadelphia hosts one of the 10 worldwide Live 8 concerts. Being slightly claustrophobic, The Phillyist decided to make our way to the Parkway for the pre-show soundcheck in hopes of enjoying the music without the push of the maddening crowd. Despite the muggy weather, the crowd (of about......