Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices

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

• Apparently Final Fantasy XII has leaked out all over the internet. It certainly wouldn't be legal or nice to go download a copy right now...
• Speaking of final fantasies...it's the 2007 12-month Nerdcore calendar (NSFW), featuring naked pictures of gamer girls - or at least, cute girls with gaming implements somewhere near their bodies. The perfect decoration for a dorm room wall. Now...Power Glove - on or off? (Via)
• Rubber duckies are an eternal favorite. Now Tech Digest has helpfully put together a top ten list of the little suckers, which includes classics like the Devil Ducky and fantastic but unfamiliar (at least to us) models like the Ducktor Who. Yay! (Via)
• We can all agree that Family Circus is one of the worst comic strips of all time, correct? Well, thankfully there are ways to fix it and make it great! The Nietzsche Family Circus is a web app that takes a random FC cartoon and pairs it with a random quote from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche. Brilliant! Hit up Backwards City for some great examples; they also link to an example of an even more excellent way of fixing Family Circus - pairing it with captions by Lovecraft!
• Ouch! Check out this brutal YouTube video which imagines what would have occurred if George Lucas had directed the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The result is basically a vicious satire of Lucas, his creative team, and the prequels in general. This Phillyist is a pretty big SW fan, but must admit the video is pretty spot-on in parts. We particularly enjoy the characterization of Hayden Christensen. Heh heh heh heh! (Via)
• Speaking of satire, how about some political satire, courtesy defective yeti? Really, it practically writes itself these days...

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