Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

• We love the idea behind Bullet Bill. If you remember your Mario games, you probably already guessed the premise: you play as one of those bullets that often plagued the famous super brothers. You control Bill with the arrow keys, breaking blocks and hitting Goombas for points while avoiding platforms and seeking to strike Mario or Luigi for a huge bonus. Although you seem to have an unlimited number of lives, and a password system allows you to reenter the game at the beginning of the last level you were playing, you will probably eventually get frustrated and give up, as the game is quite difficult and requires either a great memory, or Jedi-level reflexes - in many cases you'll just need to know where the next platform is going to appear in order to avoid it. Still, it's pretty fun, and Phillyist might plug in the password we got and try again at some point...from World 1-2. Yeah, that's as far as we got. So what? We'd like to see you do better! (Via)
• Basketball blog Basketbawful did a post last month about how Gatorade bottles look like - not to put too fine a point on it, as it were - penises (which is, according to the author, part of a rather pointless-sounding conspiracy to make fun of professional athletes), and then did a follow-up post (which includes an email response to the charges from the company). It's all quite silly and amusing...and yet also, strangely compelling... (Via)
• Today's list: the most-wanted time capsules. There used to be ten, but if recent updates to the list are correct, they're now down to eight. And they actually know right where one of them is, it's just hard to get at because it's under something really heavy (the 18-ton magnet from a cyclotron built in 1939 at MIT). Some of the others are pretty interesting, though, especially the M*A*S*H TV show capsule (which is either somewhere under the 20th Century Fox parking lot, or under a hotel that's been built in the area since the capsule was planted) and George Washington's cornerstone (the original cornerstone of the many-times renovated and expanded US Capitol, laid as part of a Masonic ritual that was performed by our first president). (Via)