Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up

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

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  • Maxim Online has a bunch of video clips of Human Weapons - meaning, action movie stars being total badasses. Good stuff! (Via)
  • Dropping Daylight want to be picked as one of AOL's "Breakers" - meaning, tomorrow's brightest stars - and in order to get the votes they need, they're willing to bribe you! Each time you vote for them, you email in a screenshot of your vote confirmation, along with some personal information, and you get another chance to win an autographed skateboard and $25 iTunes gift certificate, which prizes will be handed out every two weeks during the voting. But here's the big one: at the end of the voting (on March 31st), the grand prize winner will get a private concert by the band and a Nintendo Wii. Now that's a good bribe!
  • Rambo 4 is now called John Rambo, perhaps to match the full-name title style of the latest Rocky movie (Rocky Balboa).
  • Chris's Invincible Super-Blog presents the manliest thing you have ever seen.
  • The tabbed browsing interface is the way of the future, but none is available on the Wii trial browser. What to do? Just visit Wiiminder.com! There's nothing to install, just a clever website that creates an auto-hiding tabbed interface around the web pages you view. Brilliant! Hit the URL in a non-Wii browser, and you can watch a video showing how it all works. (Via)
  • We're sad that Nintendo is not trying harder to get Wii development kits into the hands of indie developers. Sure, slick licensed games with big budgets are cool, but a lot of times the really imaginative, ground-breaking stuff happens in the hacked together indie games.

More after the jump...

  • Check it out: a sweet leather jacket for your DS, so it can be all stylish like the other cool kids.
  • As if we weren't already excited enough about the game, Joystiq has a gallery of super-cool screenshots from the upcoming Wii action RPG, Super Paper Mario. So...awesome...
  • Is TV getting better than the movies? We're not even sure it makes sense to ask such a question. There are good movies and bad movies, good TV shows and bad TV shows. It's all kind of a crapshoot.
  • Will the remakes never end?? Next up on the block is the Jamie Lee Curtis slasher film Prom Night.
  • Random Oscar predictions based on little kids pulling things out of a hat! Hey, they'll probably be just as accurate as anybody else's. Except maybe Ebert's...

Image Credit: Flickr user Marcus Ramberg

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boy, that picture sure looks familiar.
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So you didn't like the article, but something impelled you to mine FLICKR. Very original. The one I shot was in Barcelona. Apparently cupid gets around.

I thought that picture looked familiar, but I honestly couldn't remember why. Sorry if you feel ripped off, but I always mine Flickr, and it came up in my search.

Calm Jim. I don't feel ripped off. Glad you liked my photo though.
Cheers

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