Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions

• Gadget Lab says the phone of the near future will have no buttons, but will instead respond to voice and gesture commands.
• Listening Post lets us know about a neat-sounding app for your iPhone or iPod Touch called FourTrack. It records, mixes and plays up to four tracks like a shrunken version of Pro Tools. Speaking of the iPhone, check out what appear to be screenshots of the iPhone 2.2 software, which confirm over-the-air podcast downloads direct to the iPhone, amongst other things. But while Apple is updating the iPhone, they might want to head on over to Please Fix the iPhone and take a few notes (via).
• Cinematical picks out seven movie characters whom you should not choose as your role models.
• A prequel to Smokin' Aces just got the green light. Filmmaker Joe Carnahan promises many cameos.
• Jean Claude Van Damme has signed on for another Universal Soldier movie (Cinematical says it's the third, but we're pretty sure there were more than that).
• We don't quite understand all the technical terms, but apparently WPA encryption has been cracked, and you should upgrade your router to WPA2 if you can to avoid the hackers.
• Write or Die sounds like a creepy application. You can turn it on to keep you motivated and working; it will send you reminders if you stop typing. You can set how gentle or nasty the reminders are; they range from a polite pop up box to actually undoing what you've been typing.
• Shiny Shiny presents a gallery of the best wireless gadgets, some available now and some coming soon.
• It's official: Rick Astley is the Best Act Ever. Thanks a lot, internet.
• The CW and Warner Brothers TV have scrapped plans to make The Graysons, a show that was going to focus on Dick Grayson's life before he became Robin. Apparently Warner Brothers Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov had second thoughts about the show concept.
• Publisher Sega just announced a huge collection of classic Sega Genesis titles is en route to the Xbox 360 and PS3 in a package dubbed Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection.
• The final Mirror's Edge trailer is here.
• Now you can play Katamari on your mobile phone.
• The theme to Mega Man 2 on Guitar Hero: World Tour.
• The Department of Defense is asking for your help in designing a pack of robots that would hunt down humans. Ummm... what? No!!! (Via)
• We recently posted a link to pics of Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali, and now it sounds like Antonio Banderas will be taking on the role as well.
• University of Oxford researchers have made a list of the top 10 most irritating expressions in the English language.
• Good news! House of the Dead: Overkill developers say they won't be compromising on the amount of gore.
• Mad Catz has signed a multi-year exclusive agreement to create peripherals for the Wii installments of Rock Band.
• Super Punch has links to some amusing animated gifs; let us know about a great sale on graphic novels at Things From Another World; and linked us to a crazy story about a very intelligent, and very wily, octopus (via).
• You can go here to listen to a new remix of "Harrowdown Hill" for free, courtesy Thom Yorke, in celebration of various things, including Guy Fawkes Night and Obama getting elected. (Via Sarah, via Rolling Stone)

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