June 17, 2008
Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes
The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

- The latest Wallace and Gromit movie is the source for this great YouTube music video for "Hocus Pocus" by Focus. (Via)
- Scientists are experimenting with bacteria that eat agricultural waste and excrete crude oil. Sounds too good to be true. As usual, Scott Adams puts a hilarious spin on the story.
- Batwoman is back and she's a lesbian! God, we love comics.
- Zero Trooper F is an homage to pre-CGI monster movies like Godzilla. It was shot by a group of students for under a thousand dollars. The trailer is online, and it looks pretty brilliant. Hopefully it will hit screens around here one of these days, or at least make it onto DVD.
- It seems like we're losing a lot of talented people this year, and now here's another one gone: special effects master Stan Winston died Sunday following a seven-year battle against multiple myeloma cancer. He was 62. Stan Winston Studio had most recently devised the suits featured in Iron Man. Cinematical's tribute to the man is a list of his seven greatest achievements.
- Jon Favreau says the Mandarin will indeed be the featured villain in the Iron Man sequel, but also suggested the Iron Monger might show up again. Guess Favreau's negotiations for the job of director are going well, then?
- A very cool new clip from Dark Knight has surfaced that features a quick, shadowy glimpse of Two Face. Also check out an interesting photo here.
- An upcoming horse-racing game for the Wii and Wii Balance Board might require players to submit themselves to new levels of embarassment and shame.
- A new video from LucasArts reveals plot spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.
- A Scottish family that purchased the Narnia.mobi domain name as a birthday present for their 10-year-old son were asked to return the domain name to the C.S. Lewis company. When they refused, legal action commenced. Ouch.
- Common recently talked a bit about his role in Terminator 4 and his possible role as Green Lantern in the Justice League movie. Unfortunately, he didn't have anything particularly illuminating to say about either.
- Plot details for Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 have leaked out all over the internet. Supposedly it will be set during the recent Marvel comics Civil War story arc, and it will feature, among its 20 heroes and villains, Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Wolverine.
- So what's the response from Intellisponse about its recent inadvertent leak of possibly huge E3 announcements? Spokeswoman Elizabeth McCrocklin says, "It is our policy that we do not comment on rumor or speculation."
- Geeks of Doom presents the Top 10 Warren Ellis Tweets. (Via Warren Ellis, natch)
- A new poster for Hellboy II.
- The Movie Blog's choice for greatest picture ever. It mostly just makes us mildly uncomfortable. Still, we can see where they're coming from.
- Timur Bekmambetov, director of Wanted, promises that if Wanted does well, he'll get to work on a mysterious new film project that will feature a new kind of martial arts.
- Sounds like the final episode of Battlestar Galactica might be extra long.
- Len Wiseman has signed on to direct the movie adaptation of the video game Gears of War; the game was featured in Wiseman's recent film Live Free or Die Hard, but apparently that was just a coincidence.
- The big sell on Sony Ericsson's latest phone, the F305, is that the games are controlled via motion, so you can swing your arm or flick your wrist to control the actions. But how exactly is that going to work when the thing your flicking also has the video screen on it? Seems like poor planning to us.
- A Flickr photo set of a Google Street View car being pulled over by the police. Which is very funny for some reason. (Via)
- Americans waste $650 billion dollars over-checking their email obsessively. That's just... wait, be right back—just got a new message in Gmail...
- The Vatican has formally denied a request by the makers of the movie Angels & Demons to shoot scenes within the churches of Santa Maria del Popolo and Santa Maria della Vittoria. The reason? "The film pursues a type of fantasy that damages common religious sentiment."
- John Cleese is turning the hit movie A Fish Called Wanda into a musical. He's currently writing it with his 24-year-old daughter, Camilla.
- Looks like a movie about famous gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano is on its way.
- According to the Brothers Krofft themselves, H.R. Pufnstuf is the next one of their shows up for a feature film adaptation.
- Eva Mendes could be starring opposite Nicolas Cage in that upcoming Bad Lieutenant remake.
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