Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.

Bill Gates and Master Chief

  • Adam and Jamie of Mythbusters use paint guns to demonstrate the principle of parallel computing. Yay! (Via)
  • Have you seen the new Microsoft commercial with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld? It's pretty hilarious. And it's not even advertising anything specific; it's like they just wanted to make a funny short film with the surprisingly effective comedy duo of Gates and Seinfeld.
  • James Rocchi at Cinematical got to see The Brothers Bloom already, damn him. And he gave it a good review! Yay!
  • Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky have been asked to write a script for a Ghostbusters sequel that may or may not "pass the torch to a new group of ghost chasers."
  • Michael Moore's latest documentary—Slacker Uprising, which follows Moore's 62-city tour during the 2004 presidential election, as he attempts to rally young "slacker" voters—will be released exclusively online beginning September 23. And you'll be able to watch it for free.
  • Clive Barker is excited about his Hellraiser remake, and hates PG-13 horror movies, calling them "one of the most disgusting developments in the last few years. The whole notion of a PG-13 horror movie to me is a contradiction in terms. It's like having a XXX Disney picture. It doesn't work."
  • Cinematical has itself an exclusive clip from Picasso & Braque Go to the Movies, which is a really interesting-sounding documentary examining the relationship between film and the visual arts. It's produced and narrated by Martin Scorsese, and features people like Chuck Close and Julian Schnabel. Speaking of exclusive clips from Cinematical, here's one from JCVD.
  • Make your own Jar-Jar Binks salad! Although it seems to us if you saw that vacant face staring at you from the middle of a salad bowl, you might lose your appetite. (Btw, we find it amusing that the creator of this salad chose Jar-Jar to sculpt because he was afraid he wouldn't be able to destroy a representation of a character he actually liked.)

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