April 28, 2008
Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices
The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

- The 14-wheel Segway. Why? Because it could be done. (Via)
- Check out coverage of ROFLCon, a two-day gathering of internet memes and the people behind them, at the Wired blog known as The Underwire. (Via Jill)
- Enjoy the truly epic preview for the third season of The Venture Brothers. A great and twisted show. Warning: The G.I. Joe parody sequence in this preview may make you cry. (Via)
- Eli Roth says he's two weeks away from finishing a script for a science-fiction action film inspired by Cloverfield and Transformers. He says it will be his first big-budget, PG-13, mass-destruction movie. Sounds fun, and it's certainly something different for him. Although if you still want your gore, don't worry; he's going to film some gratuitous violence so he can do an unrated DVD release later.
- Interesting concept design for a jacket which would take the form of a portable anthropomorphic digital display.
- The light bulb fish tank. This just made us think of the Mr. Sparkle episode of The Simpsons with the fish-bulb logo that looks like Homer's head. But really, everything makes us think of an episode of The Simpsons.
- Enjoy some outtakes from the Bunnies' version of Sixteen Candles.
- Some more details on Stan Lee's upcoming projects.
- Although we love food, we haven't been interested in the various cooking games that have come out recently. But Game|Life may just have convinced us to give Order Up a try.
- A little game you may have heard of called Grand Theft Auto IV is coming out tomorrow, but some stores are having midnight launch parties tonight, including many GameStops in the area (PDF, via). And while we're talking about the game, here's a GTA IV video dump.
- Uwe Boll feels he has been insulted by Michael Bay, so he has responded by saying that Michael Bay sucks (and actually, we kind of have to agree with him there), and by challenging Bay to twelve rounds in the ring.
- A trio of Russian developers is making a real-time strategy game that pits Stalin against alien invaders. It's called Stalin Vs. Martians, and is apparently an RTS for people who hate the genre, as it concentrates more on fun and action than micromanagement. (Via)
- Joystiq presents highlights from Sierra's Spring Event 2008, including their impressions of the upcoming Ghostbusters game.
- Cinematical reports from Ebertfest 2008.
- An action adventure film about Martin Luther?! Count us in!! It's about "a fallen priest-turned-hitman sent by a rogue archbishop to assassinate Martin Luther, only to discover that not everyone is telling the truth." Sounds fantastic.
- Sadly, it looks like the site promising a Speed 3 set in space was a fake. But we'd totally go see that movie.
- Cinematical took a short break from their Tribeca coverage to mention that: "Iron Man will change the way you look at these comic book films going forward. Ridiculously Bad Ass." We are getting more and more pumped for this movie...
- The next project from Matt Reeves, the director of Cloverfield, will be a psychological thriller called The Invisible Woman about a "woman that gets so desperate to save her family, that she goes to crazy lengths and enters a life of crime." Reeves wrote the film, too, and calls it "a Hitchcockian thriller in the vein of Marnie."
- Guillermo Del Toro says that, "all bureaucracy pending," Ian McKellen and Andy Serkis will be back to reprise their roles as Gandalf and Gollum, respectively—which is excellent news. Del Toro also says he'll be treating Jackson's films as canon, and his only major changes will be a greater use of animatronics, rather than pure CGI (which is also excellent news, as far as we're concerned), and a subtly different color palette.
- We always love defective yeti's Bad Review Revue posts, and the latest has some true gems, particularly the last two quotes.
- This video about Web 2.0 is very long, but totally fascinating and exciting.
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