Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices

• ABC News has an interesting and amusing little quiz (via Jill) that matches you with your presidential candidate by having you select between quotes from the two nominees on various topics. For other presidential election linkage, we turn to this article which asks, just how has it happened that shows like The View, SNL, and Letterman are hitting the candidates harder than real news outlets (via Sarah)? And finally, McCain and Obama if they were drawn by Roger Hargreaves.
• Ridley Scott revealed in a recent interview that Russell Crowe will play both Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the upcoming film Nottingham. Woah. That is one crazy idea. But it just... might... work!
• Phillyist's strange obsession with bacon continues! Here's a bacon cinnamon roll, the Bacon-Maple Bar, and a defense of the bacon/donut combination in the form of a political spoof T-shirt.
• Cinematical has some interesting geeky tidbits: Bill Murray says yes, he'd be willing to do Ghostbusters 3; the guys who wrote Iron Man aren't writing Iron Man 2 because they'll be busy doing a different, so far unnamed, Marvel movie; and is the Justice League movie still alive after all?
• 14 extremely useful Firefox add-ons.
• The 20 best Simpsons episodes, according to some person on About.com. And they're actually pretty good picks! But where is the episode in which Homer purposefully gains enormous amounts of weight so he can go on disability?! (Via)
• One of the original Star Trek writers—D.C. Fontana—picks her favorite classic Star Trek episodes.
• Sony has optioned Mark Millar and Tony Harris' superhero military comic book War Heroes.
• Watchmen director Zack Snyder has signed a deal to develop three original video games for Electronic Arts.
• It was recently announced that a couple of big upcoming games—Fable II and LittleBigPlanet—will not ship with key pieces of functionality; instead those features will be added later via patches. Game|Life offers the pros and cons for this type of approach to video game development.
• Activision Blizzard CEO Robert Kotick is pissed that the music industry is demanding bigger and bigger licensing fees for songs included in games like Guitar Hero, and he points out that what with all the free publicity the labels are getting via the games, maybe they should be paying him!
• The Italian version of EA's Dead Space will feature famed Italian horror director Dario Argento in the voice cast.
• A dedicated Korean gamer has used Spore's creative tools to craft an impressive StarCraft homage.
• Although the lawsuit against New Line by the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien is apparently still ongoing, a judge has barred the family from seeking punitive damages against the studio. Apparently Tolkien's heirs had to demonstrate a "public wrong" to claim punitive damages, but New Line's attorneys successfully argued that they're seeking to vindicate private wrongs. (Via)
• An interesting story about how fans are rebuilding lost episodes of Dr. Who on YouTube. For more fun on YouTube, check out how one fan is setting different music to the opening credit sequences to various James Bond films (Johnny Cash in front of Thunderball?? It could have happened!)—and also listen to Alicia Keys and Jack White's song for Quantum of Solace.
• Spider-Man characters, Simpsonified.
• Super Punch has its usual collection of crazy fascinating stuff for us, including redesigns of some classic comic book characters; a steampunk version of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland; some truly odd and brilliant T-shirt designs, including one featuring Ben Franklin as Michael Jackson in Thriller, dancing with zombie Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt; and that alien who gets his armed chopped off in the cantina in Star Wars, done up in LEGO bricks.

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