Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up

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

• Sita Sings the Blues is the ancient Indian epic, The Ramayana, turned into a series of animated Quicktime movies and set to old jazz music. It's also kind of awesome. Check it out. (Via)
• Wired's Game|Life blog has the story (and the pictures!) of what happened when a bunch of crazy video game fans in San Francisco decided to try to do Katamari Damacy for reals and roll a giant ball of stuff seven miles across the city. Turns out their ball actually shrank rather than grew during the process, but apparently everybody had a good time anyway; there was drinking and nakedness, and even an impromptu performance by a band. (Btw, other cool stuff coming up in SF: a theatrical version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre called Chainsaw Massacres, from the makers of Evil Dead: Live! Audiences will apparently be sprayed with gallons of fake blood. Makes us want to take a trip out west...)
• Scottish scientists claim to have found a poverty gene "which causes people from deprived areas to age rapidly, pass on health problems to the next generation and might even explain negative attitudes to employment." And they don't even appear to be kidding! (Via)