Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up

• PC Magazine presents 72 Tips for Safer Computing. Always use protection! (Via Dave)
• Robert Englund may not get to be Freddy again, but apparently he'll be directing Christopher Lee in a gothic dark fantasy film adaptation of a Nikolai Gogol short story "The Vij," about "an evil genie who conditions the actions of a young priest, leading him to commit murder and fall in love with an old witch who is actually not what she seems." And that sounds way cooler than pretending to be the guy with the knives on his hand for the 300th time.
• Richard Kelly, the director responsible for the amazing Donnie Darko and the awful Southland Tales has just wrapped production on his third movie, an adaptation of a Richard Matheson short story called The Box. It "stars Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella in a story about a couple who receive a mysterious device that grants wishes--but at the cost of a human life." Sounds interesting... but then again, we thought Southland Tales sounded interesting, too...
• It turns out that the old story that men like video games more than women may be scientific fact.
• Scott Adams has come out with his predictions for the winners of the Republican and Democratic primaries, and furthermore his prediction for who will be the next President of the United States. And his arguments are pretty hard to dispute.
• Did we completely miss the news that Mark Wahlberg is going to star in a Max Payne movie? Or did we just forget? Anyway, word is the movie should start shooting in Toronto on March 2nd and finish up on May 9th. (Via)
• Joystiq takes a hard look at a disturbing trend: playing Guitar Hero with your feet. Included are links to many YouTube videos demonstrating this technique, naturally, as well as an embedded one that features a young woman playing two guitars at the same time with her feet. Good lord.
• Recently, during one library's annual "Patron Appreciation Day," attendees were allowed to avoid their overdue fines by donating non-perishables to a local soup kitchen - or playing a quick game of Dance Dance Revolution.
• AMC theaters around the country—including three in the greater Philadelphia area—will be screening all five Best Picture Oscar nominees in a row on Saturday, February 23rd, the day before the awards ceremony. Pay $30 and see them all! This Phillyist is a bit of a movie geek (if you couldn't tell) and used to try to see every Best Picture nominee before the Academy Awards, so this is pretty tempting. Unfortunately we're already planning on seeing a different movie that day. D'oh!
• Despite fears that star Heath Ledger's death might have ended the production, it looks like Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus really is going forward, as the official site went up yesterday. There's pretty much nothing there yet except "Coming Soon," but still.
• Supermodel Karolina Kurkova has been cast as Cover Girl in the upcoming G.I. Joe film. "Cover Girl was apparently featured in the comics and the cartoon, and the character was actually a former fashion model who joined the army when she found her former life to be unfulfilling." Yeah, whatever. The point is, if you click through, you'll find that Cinematical has a nice gallery of photos of Ms. Kurkova.

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