Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up

• Threat Level at Wired gets the info on the recent hacks of high profile Twitter accounts from the hacker himself.
• A look at the Air Force's counter-blogging flow chart, designed to "counter the people out there in the blogosphere who have negative opinions about the U.S. government and the Air Force."
• This is kind of creepy: there was a bright flash in the heavens that astronomers can't explain. Also, take a 3D fly-through of a supernova!
• Wired presents a who's who of Doctor Who.
• Video-sharing sites just scored a major legal victory.
• McG is going to direct the new 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie.
• Cinematical continues its lists of movies to come in the new year with the dramas of 2009.
• The vigilante film Law Abiding Citizen has some new cast members: Michael Gambon, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney and Theresa Randle.
• Some fun new pics from The Descent 2.
• Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been cast as Thomson and Thompson in Tintin. Apparently the characters are nearly identical bumbling detectives.
• Screenwriter John August says the latest attempt to make a Shazam! movie is dead in the water.
• Historical Tweets is a funny idea, although sadly many of the examples are not particularly humorous. (Via)
• The magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly has been shut down, and 1UP is being hit hard, too.
• New StarCraft 2 screenshots.
• PETA has announced its 6th annual Proggy Awards, and Fable II won most animal-friendly game of 2008.
• Kevin Spacey says he'll be back as Lex Luthor in the next Superman movie, but rumor has it Warner Bros. is looking for another of Superman's villains to take center stage.
• Enjoy a trailer for The Tribe, a pretty-teens-in-trouble movie starring Jewel Staite of Firefly.
• It's an Asteroids watch!
• Super Punch links to a consideration of whether a popcorn kernel would pop during re-entry if dropped from space, and to the worst sweatshirt anyone has ever received for Christmas ever (via). But that's not all! Super Punch also provides us with pictures of unfortunately-placed dinosaur heads on transforming robots, and the original script for Joss Whedon's Dollhouse (via).
• The perfect gift for your budding megalomaniacal genius: A Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks.
• Monster, robot, spaceman nesting dolls.
• Arby's added an Arby's thought balloon to an existing billboard. Which is a pretty clever and unique marketing gimmick. The weird bit is that the billboard is advertising a CBS news anchor whose name is actually Dagmar Midcap. Good lord.
• The Franklin Mills Mall has an Army arcade now?? Wow.
• It looks like all the Columbia Pictures films are finally available again on the Netflix Instant Queue on your Xbox 360.
• Newcomer Garrett Hedlund will star in the new Tron movie, and Sci Fi Wire got some more details about the film from another of its stars: Olivia Wilde.
• Joss Whedon says to expect more of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog! Hooray! He also said he sat down with Tom Cruise to talk about his upcoming horror movie. Weird. Luckily, he was just talking to Cruise in his capacity as head of United Artists, not as a prospective cast member or something.
• Sci Fi Wire interviews Thomas Dekker, who plays John Connor on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and he drops some tantalizing details about the upcoming episodes of the show.
• Fun and unique paper targets for the next time you head out to the firing range. You know, like you do.
• Tim Roth says he's signed on for sequels to Incredible Hulk. Cool!

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