Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes

• Cartoonist Roy Doty's annual Christmas cards are apparently something of a legend, and now you can check out an online archive of them. (Via)
• Download Squad found a web tool that makes comparison shopping for MP3s easy.
• Spout picks the most disappointing films of 2008.
• Look out, hackers! Barack Obama might just be coming after you.
• Currently law enforcement officials do detailed searches of people's digital devices when they cross the US border, but given all the personal details that people store on such devices, this is seen as a pretty huge invasion of privacy by civil liberties groups, travelers' advocates, and now some members of Congress, who hope to impose restrictions on the practice next year.
• The top 10 Wired.com heat photos, as decided by readers, and by the Wired staff. And now they're looking for your best animal photos.
• Get your own vintage flying car! Just so's you know, though: it'll cost you.
• Wired takes a look at 12 living fossils. Check out the awesome Purple frog! We just hope we never run into one of those velvet worms. Eee.
• Danger Room at Wired takes a hard look at an important question: what's the best way to kill a vampire?
• Oddly, the source for the fourth Jason Bourne film might be a Robert Ludlum book that doesn't feature the character at all: The Parsifal Mosaic. The movie will not be based on The Bourne Betrayal, because that book was written by a friend of Ludlum's, and not Ludlum himself. Umm... okay. That's just weird.
• Seth Rogen says he hopes to have some footage of Green Hornet to screen at next summer's Comic-Con.
• This 13-minute video will catch you up on Battlestar Galactica so you're all ready for the series' return on January 16th.
• Rebecca Hall, who co-stars in the upcoming film Dorian Gray, talks a little bit about the movie and how it differs from the book. For one thing, her character didn't even exist in the novel! We can't say that makes us feel confident in the film.
• Check out some video and screenshots from the next and final installment in the Strong Bad saga, and then enjoy a short online point-and-click adventure starring Strong Bad.
• Bad news for Halo fans: Halo Wars just got its release bumped back from February to March 3rd.
• Lev Grossman of Nerd World picks 2008's top 10 video games.
• How can you make a movie of a classically Japanese story like 47 Ronin, and then cast Keanu Reeves as one of the samurai?! That's just horrific. But Hollywood is doing it! The movie will also be "a stylized version of the story, mixing fantasy elements of the sort seen in The Lord of the Rings pics, with gritty battle scenes akin to those in films such as Gladiator.” Which we have to admit sounds kind of cool, but also kind of ridiculous and awful.
• The Movie Blog breaks down for us the differences between the various home video releases of The Dark Knight.
• We missed an interesting tidbit in that recent interview with Sigourney Weaver: her comments on the possibility of a fifth Alien film. She and Ridley Scott are agreed that they'd have to go back to the drawing board if they did it, and she also said they're interested in "taking the character of Ripley and seeing what other science fiction story we can tell about someone who has lived several lives." Wow. Neat idea.
• Does that... does that Transformer have a penis?? (Via)
• Nintendo denies that it's looking into alternative accelerometer chips for the Wii Remote. Meanwhile, the company is crowing over the fact that it somehow sold 800,000 Wii consoles during the week of Thanksgiving this year. That's insane!! In case you're not one of the lucky folks who got a Wii that week, and you're still desperate for one, consider checking Walmart.com. But you know, only if you're really desperate, because as we all know, Walmart is evil. And if you're looking for reasons to not buy Nintendo products, enjoy this list of the top 5 worst Nintendo games.
• Two more Tatsunoko vs. Capcom videos.
• It's really something seeing C-3PO running around with a lightsaber.
• The folks at Joystiq got their hands on an early iteration of the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 versions of the new Ghostbusters game, and although they have some concerns they hope will be addressed in future development, they say the Wii version plays the best! Exciting.
• Uh oh. Guitar Hero may have reached its peak.

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