Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday

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

• Love Guitar Hero, but tired of your lame old guitar controller that's just like everybody else's? Well, if you feel like splurging, you can pick up a $399 limited edition AG Riff Master Guitar Controller for the PS2, which is an actual guitar that's been heavily modified to have the regular fret buttons and so forth. It also features KISS artwork on the body.
• Here's kind of a neat contest: you can win a DS Lite and a copy of DK Jungle Climber just by submitting a photo with Donkey Kong Photoshopped in, climbing on something. (Via)
• Aw, the World Series of Video Games is already dead and gone. That was quick.
• An American team of scientists have merged electrons with their antimatter equivalents - positrons - to create a new form of matter: di-positronium, which was predicted to exist in 1946. The discovery (and this is totally a real quote from a real news article here) "is a key step in the creation of ultra-powerful lasers known as gamma-ray annihilation lasers." Why, yes, the military is interested! But that's not the only possible application: "the lasers could be used to kick-start nuclear fusion in a reactor." Furthermore, said one scientist, "A gamma-ray laser is the kind of thing that if it existed people would find new uses for it everyday." Like, as a better mouse trap, perhaps? There is no part of this article that is not both totally awesome and completely horrifying at the same time. (Via)
• Did you know that there exist in the world batteries that can be recharged with urine? They can also be recharged with beer, saliva, or cola, among other things. Sadly (but rather predictably, when you think about it), they're only available in Japan at the moment.
• A woman in the UK wants a perfectly smooth pubic area, but can't afford the laser treatment. So she set up a website called MillionDollarPubes.com where she's selling her pubic hairs for $200 each. For each hair you buy, you get a 10x10 pixel ad space on her site. Ah, the internet: land of a thousand wonders! (Via)
• Well, shoot. The TNT miniseries adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman is being held up by the fact that the recently completed script would require more money than had been budgeted to bring to the screen. "TNT and DreamWorks are now addressing the financial issues and looking for ways to make the series."
• HGTV's Marjie O'Connor suggests one way to sell your house in the current tough market is to throw in a unique and popular incentive: a Wii.