Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

• You didn't think Spider-Man had a spaceship called the Marveller that could transform into a giant robot and fight with a sword, or that he had a friend with a machine gun guitar, did you? Then clearly you haven't seen this fantastic clip from the Japanese Spider-Man TV show. God bless the Japanese! Is there nothing they can't make better by adding a giant transforming robot to it? (Via)
• What will the computer of the future be like? The internet has some hints for us. Wired News suggests it will be made of stretchy, flexible silicon and we'll be able to roll it up and toss it in a bag; wear it as part of our clothing; or possibly even cover our walls with it like wallpaper. Meanwhile, National Geographic tells us (via Digg) about some Israeli scientists who've made a biomechanical enzyme computer in a test tube that runs on DNA. It's more than 100,000 times faster (330 trillion operations per second) and a million times more energy efficient than a regular PC. As of now, it can only perform rudimentary functions and has no practical applications. But, of course, the potential is mindblowing. It certainly has blown Phillyist's mind, anyway. Did we mention it runs on DNA? Holy crap!
• There are plenty of fake pictures of the next iPod (dubbed by some the iPod AV) on the web right now, but Shiny Shiny thinks they might have the real thing. According to the photo they found (see above), the whole front of the new iPod will be a touch-sensitive screen. It looks cool and seems vaguely credible, but Phillyist plans to not believe anything we see until there's an official announcement from Apple - and even then we'll take it with a grain of salt.
• You may remember a while back when Phillyist was upset to discover that the Dutch, and not us Americans, lived in the most computer literate nation in the world. Well, we're upset again to discover that we're also not the ones stealing the most music online - in fact, it's the Canadians! More specifically, Canada has "the highest online piracy rate per capita in the world, according to the Intl. Federation of the Phonographic Industry." Last time we encouraged you to beat the Dutch by telling all your friends to get online and visit Phillyist.com, but this time we're not going to suggest that you go out and start pirating music. We may not be afraid of the Dutch, but we definitely don't want to get in trouble with the RIAA. (Via)
• Hey, this dude is trying to win a thousand pound bet by getting one billion unique page views on his website. As part of the bet, he can't pay for any publicity at all, but Phillyist is generous and will give him some for free. We also gave him a hand - or, rather, a click. Why don't you? (Via)
• Like everybody else, street gangs are forming communities on the internet - as well as scheduling gang fights on their blogs, and dealing with rival gang spam. A Florida detective says of the sites, "It's where I learned everything I know about gangs." Hmm. Maybe they should try password-protecting some of that shit, yo. (Via)

Image via Shiny Shiny