Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up

The best of the internet, squirted out in flavorful neon globules, just for you.

• A company called MicroCHIPS Inc. have a great new use for WiFi - administering drugs! That's right, no need to remember anymore which drug you have to take and when; a computer will remember it for you. They just implant a microchip in your body with tiny medicine reservoirs and link it to a wireless control outside the body. It's working well in dogs, but human tests are still some years away. Later versions might also include implanted sensors that could monitor the circulatory system or blood glucose levels. The problem, as TechDirt points out, would be with security. What if somebody hacks the system and forces you to OD? That's not cool. (Via)
• We've seen some of the pictures on Ezprezzo's "It's Not Safe!" page before (you can see one above), and we suspect more than one of them is probably fake, but they're still pretty fun, and anyway the page is clearly a classic piece of internet junk. (Via)
• MSN informs us that downloading movies is the next big thing, and helpfully supplies links to various sites offering free downloads of old b-movies and the like. And so we pass them onto you. The video on-demand revolution is pretty much here, folks. Enjoy it! (Via Sarah)
• Maybe Phillyist is mentally disturbed, but we found this bit of Flash amusement, instructively entitled Don't Shoot the Puppy, to be a clever, innovative, and artistic anti-game. It's also totally freaking hilarious. Go ahead - just try not to shoot the puppy! Also, while you're at it, don't think of a white bear. (Via)
• Think this whole podcast thing is just a fad? You might want to rethink: there are now more podcasts than there are radio stations in the entire world. It took radio about 100 years to get that many stations; it took podcasting about 2 years. As Keanu would say, "Woah." (Via)
• It may sound boring, but you might want to keep an eye on this case that's in the Supreme Court now; it could have huge implications for patent law, affecting not only many existing patents on drugs, medical devices, and computer software, but also possibly deciding what can be patented at all. The unlikely patent that's being discussed is one on a process for diagnosing certain B vitamin deficiencies:

  The question before the Supreme Court is whether a doctor could infringe the patent "merely by thinking about the relationship" between homocysteine levels and B vitamin deficiencies after looking at a test result.

  We could infringe patents just by thinking?! Oh, sweet Jesus. (Via)

Image Credit...should be obvious, but just in case: Ezprezzo.com