August 28, 2008
Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday
A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

- America, in the person of San Francisco native Craig Billmeier, AKA Hot Lixx Hulahan, has won the Air Guitar World Championships. We are swelling with patriotic pride.
- Our sister site LAist reports on a woman who continued Twittering even while having a baby. That's dedication.
- Looks like no Preacher on HBO after all. The new head of HBO felt the adaptation was just too dark and too violent and too controversial. Heh. Sounds like it was pretty accurate!
- In order for his family to live greener lifestyles closer to nature, a Wales resident has built what is essentially a fully-functional Hobbit house. He doesn't call it that himself, but that's sure what it looks like.
- Sadly it appears that Vikings versus aliens movie Outlander is going direct to DVD.
- Cinematical picks out some highlights from a lengthy Q&A with one of the screenwriters of Transformers 2. Meanwhile, The Movie Blog has spy pics from the set.
- Pics from the WWII movie Spike Lee is making for Disney. Which is a sentence we never thought we'd write. Wait... did we wake up in a parallel universe this morning?
- Han Solo frozen in carbonite—in cake form!
- This metareview of Mario Super Sluggers reveals some mixed feelings about the new Wii title.
- Lag is a huge problem for Street Fighter IV online play, but the developers are working on it. Meanwhile, the arcade version has come to Philly! If you want to buy a cabinet to have for your very own... well, good luck!
- 3D Realms claims to have several "fairly polished" hours of Duke Nukem Forever completed.
- This rumor is almost certainly true because it's so totally unsurprising: LucasArts is said to be planning another lightsaber-centric game, this one making use of the Wii MotionPlus accessory.
- Joystiq has a couple of hands-on reports for us, including one for Guitar Hero World Tour, and one for Quantum of Solace.
- Some amusing political satire in the form of a video game parody. Enjoy!
- Blizzard says World of Warcraft's graphical updates will happen over time with expansions.
- Download Squad found a 2D driving simulator that uses Google Maps for its driving courses.
- A religious, home computer version of Guitar Hero. Eww.
- Sci Fi Wire has an exclusive look behind the scenes of Fringe.
- Robert Downey Jr. and Tina Fey are in negotiations to voice characters in DreamWorks Animation's Master Mind, a computer-animated spoof of the superhero genre.
- Some more details about DC Universe vs. Mortal Kombat, plus video of Joker's fatality.
- Witness a truly horrifying chorus of 12 hacked Pikachu dolls.
- Friends, even this Phillyist is slightly disgusted by the sight of the Krispy Kreme cheddar bacon cheeseburger, apparently available at Google's NYC cafeteria. But that wouldn't stop him from trying one!
- Some details from director Alex Proyas about his upcoming film, Dracula: Year Zero.
- It's official: the Tintin movie will feature the impressive creative team of producer Peter Jackson, writer Steven Moffat, and director Steven Spielberg.
- Check out the trailer for, and read more details on, LG15: The Resistance, the new sci-fi web series from Lonelygirl15 producers Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried.
- Some users on Twitter are using the platform to pretend to be celebrities or fictional characters. And some of them have had their accounts suspended for it. Underwire picks 11 fake Twitterers who are ripe for a takedown.
- Online gameplay in Guitar Hero World Tour may require an additional subscription? Wha?
- Wii Fanboy picks 5 of their favorite GameCube mods.
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Dude, I have *got* to have one of those burgers!!