Whiz of the Web: Wednesday Whiz-Up

• Want to make a font based on your handwriting? Sure you do! (Via miss bee)
• The Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference starts today. The conference is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Guests include Bill Gates and world wide web founder Tim Berners-Lee.
• Some super smart people in India have designed a $10 laptop. They just need a manufacturer to sign up and help them make it.
• "Gene therapy that could immunize people against the most common type of HIV is ready to be tested on humans."
• Geek Dad takes a closer look at one of the best of a new crop of iPhone apps aimed at young children.
• Nuclear physicists are planning a 20-petaflop computer in conjunction with IBM. It will most likely be the most powerful computer in the world when it is released.
• Wired presents the top 10 shadow photos, as chosen by the staff and by the readers.
• Cinematical lists seven filmmakers who are so prolific, they're like one-man movie factories.
• Robert Downey Jr. seems to suggest that Mickey Rourke is likely to be in Iron Man 2, but not as Crimson Dynamo, as many thought.
• Pretty nice fan-made poster for Public Enemies.
• Academy president Sid Ganis claims the Oscars ceremony will be totally different and will take some risks this year. We'll believe it when we see it.
• Amazon just launched a new casual game store, and three of the games are available for free!
• Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of Facebook. Happy birthday, Facebook! Now quit distracting us! We have work to do, for God's sake.
• Google just launched Google Latitude, which lets you track people's GPS-enabled mobile phones.
• More details on Pole's Big Adventure, the WiiWare game that's a parody of 8-bit games.
• The Wii version of Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings will feature the classic Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis as an unlockable bonus.
• D-Pad Hero looks like a clever idea, although apparently it's not that great a game.
• Spinal Tap is headed back to the studio to record more songs!
• Dead Space is coming to the Wii, and it might take advantage of MotionPlus.
• The final trailer for Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers. Ah, they know their audience well.
• Very nice, custom made Jurassic Amber Soap, with insect!
• Heh. Nice T-shirt. (Via)
• Some pretty sweet fan-made ads for Street Fighter IV. (Via)
• A picture of a Mii adorns an actual wanted poster in Japan. (Via Jill)
• Dakota Fanning on Coraline, and how she actually grew up playing this role.
• Director James Gray talks about The Lost City of Z, his upcoming film about the life of adventurer/explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett, who will be played by Brad Pitt.
• Ken Nolan has been brought on to rework the script for an untitled moon project starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
• Sci Fi Wire talks about the just released Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer's Edition.
• Daniel Myrick, director of The Blair Witch Project, is working on a paranormal thriller called Savant which he says would be his biggest movie to date.
• A video interview with the cast of Push (which this Phillyist is seeing tonight; we'll let you know how it is).

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