Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes

• Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer are going on tour, playing songs by Spinal Tap and The Folksmen.
• Cinematical's latest update on the Asian cinema scene includes a couple of kick-ass trailers.
• Warner Bros. has signed Kevin Smith to direct the comedy A Couple of Dicks, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. The film has a release date of January 29, 2010. The screenplay for A Couple of Dicks wasn't written by Smith; it was on the 2008 list of the best unproduced screenplays. It's about two cops trying to track down a stolen, mint-condition, 1952 baseball card.
• Woody Allen's new movie Whatever Works will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.
• Vanity Fair did another great photo shoot: today's favorite comedic actors and actresses dressed up to resemble their favorite big-screen legends. We particularly like Seth Rogen as Frida Kahlo.
• Cinematical's recent collection of fun entertainment news bites includes the inside information on how Michel Gondry got the Green Hornet gig.
• Flickr's letting all its users upload videos now, not just the paying customers.
• Ten application names that could use a re-think.
• An amusing parody of the preponderance of peripherals for the Wii.
• A trailer for Space Invaders Extreme 2.
• The Phoenix Wright musical performed by an all-female cast was a big hit in Japan, so they're planning a sequel.
• Alice's Adventures in Steamland, an illustration of a steampunk Alice in Wonderland. And while we're talking steampunk, here's a bunch of videos of crazy steampunk robots.
• A not entirely unbelievable movie concept: Predatoddler. (Via)
• Joystiq gives us its impressions of Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures.
• New images from the Dexter video game, the release of which has been delayed until the summer.
• You can get a free PDF of the Street Fighter IV training manual right here. It includes character biographies, move lists, and some impressive artwork. (Via)
• Gibson's attempt to sue Activision for patent infringement seems to have failed.
• More on the rumored PSP-4000.
• An old iMac with a Dreamcast jammed inside.
• Wes Craven talks about his current and upcoming film projects.
• Harper's Island sounds like it could be an interesting show; it's a scripted, limited run drama series in the shape of a Survivor-like reality game in which a person dies in every episode.
• A 3D remake of Re-Animator is on the way. it's a pretty brilliant idea, but we're not sure it would be possible to recapture the cheesy, hilarious, sleazy, bloody insanity of the original.
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader just got a Dec. 10, 2010 release date.
• A woman in Wisconsin found an old cell phone in her bag of chips. Whoops! And while we're talking weird and unlikely mistakes involving product purchases, some dude bought $26 worth of gas using his Paypal debit card, but was charged for $81,400,836,908.

Image Credit: Flickr user tom_bullock