The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Japanese magazine Famitsu has given Super Smash Bros. Brawl a rare perfect 40/40 review score. Seems like a good sign! Yesterday was the latest big tech event, after CES: MacWorld 2008. Nerd World sums up the whole thing in one post, but Shiny Shiny has lots of coverage, including posts about upgrades to Apple TV and the official announcement of movie......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Google Maps is extremely helpful with directions, even when you're going across oceans (see step 23). (Via) A student was suspended in North Carolina because he came to school dressed as a pirate, and his costume was "disruptive." The student says the punishment is a violation of his rights, as his religion dictates that he must dress in "full pirate regalia." Yep, he's......

Apparently the NYPD recruits, and often holds their police-entrance exam, right here in Philly. In fact, they just had the test on Saturday at Temple. We were wondering what they were doing set up in the Gallery on Friday... Yo, dude, Kumar's gonna be teaching at Penn! Seriously, Kal Penn (no relation) is going to be a guest instructor for the Asian American Studies Program in the spring 2008 semester. Appropriately enough, the classes......

When I was eleven years old, my parents and I started spending a week every summer in Topsail, North Carolina, with my best friend, “Zoe” and her family. Our parents had an extra special knack for taking us places where nothing was going on and there was no one under the age of 60 within a seventy mile radius. This, however, did not stop us from wondering whether or not we’d meet guys in our......

Nicole Atkins & The Sea
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I have a crush… on a song. This is actually a common occurrence in my life. I love music. I have music playing at all times. I cannot be in my apartment without it on. I can’t drive without music (or be driven somewhere without it). Even when I hate the CD we have to listen to at work, I want it on. This need, coupled with my innate neuroses, means that I often find......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Here's a unique site: Cock-a-doodle, featuring drawings of the male member (so, not exactly work-safe). You can vote on the doodles, and then draw your own, starting with either a blank canvas, or what you might call a template penis. And it's not all just for fun! The site raises money for Everyman, a charity working to end testicular cancer. Awesome.......

Slaking your thirst for crazy internet junk since a week ago (yes, in blog world we celebrate milestones as meaningless as one week! Also, shut up). Lists are what we're all about here at Phillyist (well...that, and Philly), so here's IGN's list of the Top 10 Worst Game Controllers. We remember from painful experience just how crappy the controller for the Atari 5200 was (after a while you had to jam those buttons in with......

From The Phillyist 'What We Would Have Posted Had We Existed A Few Years Ago' Files: So while we're busy hanging around ACME late at night, waiting for the deli people to discount their sandwiches to a buck apiece, it seems that people across the nation are hitting up some fast food place called Jack in the Box. Jack in the Box isn't well-known crappy food like McDonald's. Instead, it's not quite as well-known crappy......