A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. XPN's 885 countdown this year will list the quintessential XPN songs. We're not even sure what that means, but you can go and vote right here. So what's next now that E3 is over? Comic-Con! EW has your photo gallery preview of the event (via). And check out the sweet Star Trek character poster! Amazon has launched a video streaming service called Amazon......

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......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Guillermo Del Toro dropped some more hints about what we can expect from the one or two Hobbit movies he's going to direct. Check out Pixar's first short film. More pics from Scorsese's upcoming film, Ashecliffe. An upcoming film version of King Lear is set to star Anthony Hopkins as the titular king and Naomi Watts, Keira Knightley,......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Cinematical's review of Hellboy II is encouragingly positive. You can check out the new, third trailer for the film right here (via). Two Greek mythology movies are on their way and are likely to end up fighting it out at the box office. One is a remake of Clash of the Titans, to be directed by Louis Leterrier and written by......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Amazon.com has an exclusive preview of Beck's new album, Modern Guilt. The video is more of the lame experimental stuff Beck's been doing lately, but the music is pretty cool. PC Magazine picks the best websites for movie fans, and do a pretty good job of it; included are some of our favorites, like Rotten Tomatoes, Apple's movie......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. So, anybody want to pool their cash and buy Phillyist a deluxe LEGO Death Star? (Via Amy) Cinematical takes a look at the pros and cons of Netflix's recently released set-top box, the Roku. Yay! Finally a new episode of GameTrailers' Star Wars Retrospective! Spider-Man video games have generally been a disappointment, but we've gotta say this preview for Spider-Man: Web......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Mmm! Bacon floss! (Via Amy) You can download Girl Talk's new album, Feed the Animals, for any price you choose. Although if you pick 0.00, you will have to explain yourself. (Via D-Mac) The next episode of Cinematic Titantic is now available! This time the MST3K alums are making fun of a lame sci-fi flick called The Doomsday Machine. You can download it......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. If you, like this Phillyist, went to see The Incredible Hulk this weekend and were completely unable to spot the Captain America cameo, even after staying through the entire end credits sequence, well... there's something you should know: the director recently revealed that the cameo scene he'd promised us in a previous interview had to be cut out because it was......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. That scene in Iron Man where Tony Stark goes to Burger King wasn't just a glaringly obvious product placement—it was based on a true story! In fact, Burger King saved Robert Downey Jr.'s life. (Via Sarah) If you hadn't heard yet, the big info from Apple yesterday is that the iPhone is now better and cheaper! There are......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. "Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star—a distant world just three times the size of our own." (Via Sarah) Won't somebody please think of the ninjas? Warren Ellis is on a roll lately. He's got links to a couple of fascinating articles, one about new evidence that suggests that Machu Picchu was actually discovered forty years......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. We love bacon and all, but the scratch 'n sniff bacon tuxedo takes things a couple dozen steps too far. (Via Sarah) Geeks, your list is here: the 11 Most Scorching-Hot Female Cosplayers Ever. (Via) Another casting call for Transformers 2 will be taking place this Saturday at Bullies Bar at the Spectrum. It's another "one photo a......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. We think we've mentioned the Turn Around America video contest here before, but things have changed a bit since then: now in addition to a national winner, a Philadelphia winner will also be chosen. Also, the deadline has been extended to June 10th. (Via Rachele) Beware! The LOLCat meme is leaking into the real world! Yay! The First Avenger: Captain America is going......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Beware, you Mr. Pinks out there who have been stiffing the wait staff! There is in fact an online database of lousy tippers at LousyTippers.com. (Via Sarah) Friends, you might want to swing by your local Dunkin Donuts and/or McDonalds today; apparently, they're both giving away free samples. (Via Sarah) This Phillyist doesn't care for reality TV, but we have to admit MTV's......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Actress Isabella Rossellini's latest project is a series of two-minute films called Green Porno commissioned by the Sundance Channel. In them, she impersonates various small creatures to show how they reproduce. We kid you not. (Via Jill) Virtual-Vancouver has partnered with the New Music West festival to create the first massively multi-user online music festival. To attend, all......

Ross and I were invited down to Atlantic City this past weekend for a mini blogger meetup sponsored by the four Harrah's casinos there. I'll write more about that in this week's Return to Sender, but for now, I'm only mentioning it to set the scene. In all, there were ten of us in attendance. The two of us from Philly, two others from Chicago, and the balance from New York City. During dinner,......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Terrell Owens just may have shown up in the background of a photo from a hardcore porn shoot (which is, disappointingly, pretty safe for work). (Via Sarah) Penny Arcade points out that there are some things you really just don't need to put on Twitter. Don't mess with the Goddamn Batman. He knows lawyers. Heh heh. Apparently Uwe Boll got in......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Ultimate crossover! Some screenshots from the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion to World of Warcraft have leaked online. Activision chairman and CEO Bobby Kotick says future installments of Guitar Hero will feature a lot of other instruments and vocals. They will also be called Rock Band. OK, probably not, but still. Joystiq has a bit more......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. We still say Hellboy was a very disappointing film. But this new, longer trailer for Hellboy II along with these new pics from the film are starting to make us feel like the sequel is not going to be disappointing at all. It looks like it's a Pan's Labyrinth/Hellboy crossover movie, actually. We can't wait. Check out this totally mesmerizing stop-motion animated film.......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Dolph Lundgren is writing and directing a film called Command Performance, which he describes as "Die Hard at a rock concert." He stars as an ex-Marine drummer for the warm-up band of a big American performer giving a concert for the Russian premier. Bad guys break up the show and the drummer goes into action. Apparently Lundgren got the idea from......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. The Raconteurs just announced that they're releasing a brand new album on March 25th. It's called Consolers of the Lonely, and plenty more info about it and its release can be found on the news section of the Raconteurs' official website. They say they're skipping out on the usual months of promotion in order to get the album out to everybody......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. The last Harry Potter book is going to be adapted into two separate movies, to be released in November 2010 and May 2011. We actually meant to post about this yesterday, but somehow we forgot. We suspect a malicious memory charm was cast on us by servants of You Know Who. (Via Sarah, Jill, Cinematical...) X-Files 2 has wrapped production, and David Duchovny......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Check out this sweet poster for Takashi Miike's latest project, Sukiyaki Western Django. Here's hoping they manage to get a copy of this one for the Philadelphia Film Festival... We think we've already said this before, but each successive trailer for Iron Man makes us exponentially more excited about seeing the film, and the latest one is no exception. Hot damn, this movie......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Sam Raimi will executive produce a new syndicated, live-action weekly series titled Wizard's First Rule, which is based on Terry Goodkind's fantasy book series The Sword of Truth. Cooper Lawrence, the author who criticized Mass Effect on a now infamous Fox News segment, has finally actually seen the game and is admitting she made a mistake, and that......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Have you heard about a little thing called the Consumer Electronics Show? No? Well, don't worry, Shiny Shiny has the story so far, and Wired was liveblogging the Sony press conference, and the Bill Gates opening keynote speech. From Sony, we learn that a GPS receiver for the Sony PSP, already available in Japan, will be coming to America. Microsoft announced......