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 best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Computerworld takes a look at how CAPTCHA was cracked, and the consequences of that event. (Via Slashdot, via Jill) Babble picks the 26 most disturbing kid movies ever. (Via Sarah) Justin Theroux will write the sequel to Iron Man, and Marvel is close to a deal that will bring back director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey Jr. The plan is......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Epicurious has created a tasty menu based on ingredients found at Philly's own Reading Terminal Market. (Via Sarah) The first full trailer for The Spirit suggests that the film will be an incredibly surreal chronicle of the main character getting seduced by various hot women and then shot at by Samuel L. Jackson. Which... actually sounds like a......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Bored at work? Now you can play thousands of NES games inside your Firefox browser. You can thank us later. The dude abides, man! Big Lebowski action figures. Sold. Sky ceilings. They mimic daylight and the outdoors. If you can afford one, chances are you don't have a cubicle that would require one. A crocodile walks into a bar.... Yeah, it does......

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. 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, 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 steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. Penny Arcade offers one possible explanation for the recent behavior of one Jack Thompson, Esquire. This Phillyist just recently finished reading Warren Ellis' mind-blowingly excellent graphic novel Ocean, and now comes word that it's going to be turned into a movie. Woo hoo! If you care, The Movie Blog has set pics from Transformers 2. What if, instead of helping invent rock and......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Watch this short documentary to learn the true and secret history of the American hobo. (Via Dan) Check out a photo of all the old school heroes from Watchmen. If their costumes look kind of cheesy and home-made... well, they're actually supposed to look that way. We can't say we love the way this looks, but we don't hate it, either.......

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 steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. We usually try to avoid plugging our -ist brethren here, because it makes us feel dirty, but we really enjoyed this survey of how much various items cost per gallon from Chicagoist, and Gothamist's article about the crazy Telectroscope thing supposedly connecting London to New York. Flickr user tommitude spent two days in April 2006 walking the length of Philadelphia snapping a picture......

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......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. A pretty sweet Punisher: War Zone poster is now available for viewing online. There had been talk about a Cloverfield 2, but now J.J. Abrams is saying he'd rather take the team that did the original film and do a completely new project with them, rather than a sequel. As you might expect, the restricted trailer for The Happening is even......

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets. "Lingerie maker Triumph International Japan Ltd unveiled its environmentally friendly, and green colored, "Solar Power Bra" on Wednesday in Tokyo." No comment. (Via Jill) Tom Cruise will star as the President of the United States in the upcoming political thriller 28th Amendment. In the film, Cruise's character discovers that the United States is actually being controlled by a super secret organization (run by......

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. Babble, a site for modern parents, presents the Top 10 Most Invisible Kids in TV History and the Top 50 Best Sesame Street Moments. HorrorMovies.ca managed to snag itself a bunch of images from Bruce Campbell's latest flick, helpfully titled My Name Is Bruce (via). Meanwhile, MoviesOnline has a pic from Kiefer Sutherland's upcoming movie, Mirrors, which sounds......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Sci Fi Wire updates us on the progress of producer Joel Silver's Wonder Woman movie; sounds like now he's interested in doing her origin story, when before that was not his focus. Silver also says that the Justice League movie has been tabled for now. A bit more information on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe: the game's trademark ultraviolence will likely......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Supposedly Indy 4 is now locked down with a running time of 140 minutes. A possible plot spoiler for the next Star Trek can be found here. It's an interesting idea... Apparently Midnight Meat Train will be getting a theatrical release after all—just not in Canada. Those poor Canadians. Rumor is they might be taking the "Meat" out of the title,......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Photographs of real places with video game characters added. We like! (Via) Wired takes a closer look at the world's most powerful laser, recently built and turned on at the University of Texas at Austin. It's 2,000 times more powerful than all the power plants in the United States and the builders hope to use it to recreate astronomical phenomena like......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. There are Burger King-licensed potato snacks now in two flavors: Ketchup & Fries and Flame Broiled. We are horrified, yet curious. (Via Sarah) Yo, it's hard out there for a blogger! (Via Jill) At this year's annual Rube Goldberg competition, the task was to assemble a hamburger in 20 or more steps. The winner managed it in 156......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. It is, if you hadn't noticed, the first day of April, which is a day on which it is traditional to prank people, lie to them, and just generally wage war on them psychologically and physically. We promise not to do any of these things to you, less because we respect you too much as people, and more......

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......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. As we're sure you've heard at some point, Guns N' Roses has been promising to put out a new album called Chinese Democracy for years and years, but the thing has yet to materialize. In order to speed things along (and, yeah, for marketing purposes, too), Dr. Pepper has promised it will give a free can of soda to everyone in America—except for......

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you. Muxtape looks like a cool idea (although beware—it seems to be a bit unreliable at the moment, perhaps due to its sudden popularity). Upload some MP3s and then anybody else can listen to them as a streaming playlist. There are no issues of legality because there's no way to actually download the songs. We're really enjoying this particular muxtape at the......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Fantasy/humor author Terry Pratchett recently donated over a million dollars for research into the causes and cures of Alzheimer's Disease, and now an effort to match his donation has started. It's appropriately called Match It for Pratchett, and fellow fantasy author George R.R. Martin has details on how you can participate on his Not a Blog. You might want to consider......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Looks like Paramount Pictures wants Sam Raimi to spearhead a revival of the Jack Ryan franchise. Clint Eastwood is going to direct and star in a film called Gran Torino. Details are being kept under wraps, but the rumor is the film might be a new entry in the Dirty Harry series. Feeling lucky, punk?! We're not a huge fan of the work......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Settle in, folks, because we've got a great big bundle of trailers for you today: a new one for Wall*E (via); Incredible Hulk (via); The Lost Boys: The Tribe (via); extremely creepy-looking horror flick The Strangers (via); and animated movie Batman: Gotham Knight. The trailer for Incredible Hulk is freaking FANTASTIC. We may just have a new most anticipated movie of 2008. "As......

Data reported earlier this week by the Philadelphia Daily News shows a slight rise in violence reported in and around Philadelphia public schools during the first six months of this academic year. And some educators say violence in city schools is worse than the numbers indicate, because teachers and other staff are still reluctant to report attacks. Both the Inquirer and the Daily News have coverage of State Senator Vincent J. Fumo's press conference......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Defective Yeti has collected together a lot of the best tributes to Gary Gygax on the web, including his own. Wired also had a cool D&D logo redesign contest in honor of Gygax. So remember how there was that guy whose one-of-a-kind signed Xbox 360 was ruined by Microsoft's repair technicians, and Bungie said they were going to help him out?......