Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes

• Gadget Lab listed five gadgets that were killed by the cellphone, and then followed that list up with seven more gadgets killed by the cellphone.
• The top 10 Wired.com music photos, as decided by the readers, and the writers.
• A high quality version of the Star Trek trailer we linked to yesterday, plus ten things you should know about Star Trek.
• The Champions is coming to the big screen. It's an adaptation of a British television series of the 60s about a team of government agents who were rescued from a plane crash in the Himalayas by an advanced civilization, a civilization that also gave them superpowers. Nice! Christopher McQuarrie will write the script and the ubiquitous Guillermo del Toro will produce, along with Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner. McQuarrie will also be writing and producing The Monster of Florence, based on the book of the same title about an investigation into Italy's version of Jack the Ripper.
• The trailer for Race to Witch Mountain has some cool moments, but is mostly just cheesy in that special Disney way.
• A LEGO fashion show? Hoo boy.
• Sci Fi Wire has noticed the same thing we did about Fringe: John Noble and his character Walter Bishop are the only reasons to watch the show. Here's an interview with Mr. Noble. Included is a wonderful video collecting some of Walter's greatest hits.
• House of Night, a series of nine young-adult vampire novels, have just been optioned for the big screen. Somebody's trying to ride the coattails of Twilight's success...
• If you own Guitar Hero: World Tour for the Wii, you can forget about playing the upcoming Hendrix songs. They want to sell them only together as a pack, and since you can only buy songs for the Wii individually, you're out of luck. Lame! And speaking of Guitar Hero, Activision is now pairing up with Konami to bring the game to the arcades. Which seems odd and backwards, but okay.
• The original ad for Bitch Slap was already completely ridiculous, but this new trailer just takes it to a whole new level of insanity. Good lord.
• A look at the inevitable Watchmen video game.
• We didn't even know DC Comics had a web comics division called Zuda Comics, but the image included in this post is mighty intriguing. Also, a couple of the online comic series will now be moving into print.
• Beware of the latest Wii system update! Apparently pretty much all it does is kill all your homebrew stuff.
• A new study from the labs of Villanova University reveals that, despite some popular arguments to the contrary, motion-controlled video game violence is no more likely to make you violent than the regular kind of video game violence.
• 2008's best-selling video games are a bunch of Wii games and GTA IV.
• Ubisoft hopes to get another Prince of Persia game on the Wii. But hope doesn't develop games!
• A 15-year-old Swedish boy went into convulsions following a marathon World of Warcraft session in which he hardly ate or slept. Doctors say the boy will make a full recovery, and his Dad says he'll limit the amount of time his son plays from now on. Sounds like a good call! Maybe stuff a sandwich down his throat every once in a while, too.
• Eh, the latest Tomb Raider: Underworld trailer is pretty cool, we guess, but... say, is that Mjolnir? And a giant octopus?! Nice!

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