March 3, 2008
Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

- MoviesOnline has a ton of clips up from the upcoming Neil Marshall film, Doomsday. (Via)
- The next group in Hollywood we have to worry about striking is the actors. They're represented by the Screen Actors' Guild, who for some reason don't even want to start negotiating with producers until April. So another union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, is threatening to break away from SAG and start negotiations on their own as early as this month.
- Geekadelphia keeps us apprised of all the important products available to us, including a bra filled with booze called the wine rack, and a nice warm hat that includes coverage for the bearded and mustachioed amongst us.
- All that money that artists lost because their music was being traded for free on services like KaZaA and Napster may never get into their hands after all, even after the RIAA obtained millions of dollars in legal settlements with those companies. Apparently, it's taking a long time to divide the money up properly, and a lot of the money may go to pay for the legal fees. (Via Jill)
- As everyone knows, Mick Jagger refused to continue working with the Hells Angels (why is there no apostrophe? Can anyone explain that?) after the Rolling Stones hired them to provide security at a concert at Altamount, and a fan ended up getting killed. A new BBC documentary claims that the Angels felt betrayed by Jagger and planned to kill him at his home in Long Island by approaching the house from the sea, in a boat. When the boat was hit by a storm, they scrapped the plan and never attempted to kill him again. (Via Jill)
- Wondering what the polls on Tuesday hold in store for us and for the presidential race as a whole? Download Squad was wondering, too, and decided to see if the internet could predict the outcome.
- Actors are dropping off of projects like crazy! Okay, not really, we just noticed two instances of it, and decided to put them together into one bullet point. The guy who was going to play a young Logan in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Australian actor Kodi Smit-McPhee) has left the project due to conflicting shooting dates, and will instead be heading to the set of the new Cormac McCarthy film adaptation, The Road. In very similar news, Ellen Page, the Oscar-nominated actress from Juno, has left Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell, also due to scheduling conflicts.
- Disney plans to release a 3-D sequel to Tron in spring 2011. Joseph Kosinski will direct. With sequels to both Tron and The Last Starfighter on the way, we guess we're going to be reliving the geekiest parts of the '80s!
- Sci Fi Wire has released the results of their recent email poll picking the best science fiction movies of all time. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope is, unsurprisingly, the overall winner, with Blade Runner as a close second. Click through for the whole list.
- Read the tragic story of how Microsoft ruined a one-of-a-kind Xbox 360.
- Via a rather unsettling collage of clips from his films, Jack Nicholson expresses his support for Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. Wow. (Via Jill, via TMZ)
- Cinematical picks the seven best Coen brothers supporting characters. These are all fantastic choices, but we're particularly pleased to see that local boy Randall "Tex" Cobb made the list.
- We were about to say the LEGO video game thing was getting out of hand, what with this story about LEGO Halo and all, but then we realized this was in the April issue of EGM. So yeah, it's a joke. For actual, real LEGO video game news, check out the trailer for LEGO Batman. Gotham might really want to consider not keeping all of its most insane and dangerous criminals in the same building...
- Jack Thompson wants to help EA take over Take-Two. Aww, isn't that nice.
- Recent info floating around suggests that Guitar Hero: Aerosmith won't be wall-to-wall Aerosmith songs after all; a Best Buy circular says the game will also feature Aerosmith's favorite bands, while a USA Today article says it will feature opening acts.
- Physicists have successfully stored and retrieved a strange form of vacuum, which may mark a significant step toward new quantum information and telecommunication technologies.
- Robert Irvine, say it ain't so! (Via Sarah)
- Kraft mac and cheese at Burger King? That's just weird. (Via Sarah)
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