Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

• You know the rubber stamp tool in Photoshop that lets you copy a spot on your image to anywhere else on your image? Well the MIT Media Lab has made one of those for the real world! It's called the I/O Brush. It copies the colors, textures, and even movement of whatever you brush it against via a small video camera with touch and light sensors embedded inside. Apply it to the special drawing canvas and you can paint with whatever you just brushed. Check out the site for a totally awesome video of the thing in action. Kids these days have the coolest toys... (Via)
• They're teasing us again with the possibility of a Batman vs. Superman movie. The talented Wolfgang Petersen, who was attached to direct when this project was floating around before, says he's still interested. The most recent screenplay was written by Andrew Kevin Walker (of Seven fame) and in it an older Bruce Wayne is trying to recover from the death of Robin and get married at the same time, when all the sudden [possible_spoilers]the Joker pops up and kills his fiance. That really puts him overboard, and Superman shows up to calm him down, only to end up fighting him, which is what Lex Luthor planned all along.[/possible_spoilers] That sounds pretty freaking awesome to Phillyist. Oh great internet, please let this movie get made! Oh please oh please oh please...
• List time again, folks! This episode is the top 1000 books owned by Online Computer Library Center member libraries around the globe. It's not exactly the list of the books most purchased by the world's libraries, but it's pretty close. Most of the items on the list are quality works and their presence makes sense, until, that is, you get down to number 15: Garfield. Phillyist will admit we liked Garfield okay when we were a kid, but do libraries really need more copies of a rather repetitive, unfunny, pointless comic strip that's little more than the launch pad for stifling amounts of crappy merchandise than copies of, say, Macbeth (#19), Moby Dick (#34), or A Tale of Two Cities (#42)? (Via)