Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions

• Many pictures of robots, most of them creepy (Via @BillCorbett). We're particularly disturbed by the third picture. In other robot news, a robot programmed to love got a little carried away. But it's all okay because they can also serve us ice cream.
• The folks at Wired present 10 things they would have bought at WonderCon if they'd had the money.
• Various bits of Google news: the company has changed its Latitude service, which lets you broadcast where you are to your friends, such that it will no longer remember where you were, for privacy and security reasons. Google and Universal are considering "a premium version of YouTube... that would contain videos, interviews and other footage from only major label artists." Finally, Google says it doesn't expect to see a fall in revenue, but will be hanging onto its cash and making only very conservative investments.
• A video list of 5 was to steamroll your enemies in Halo Wars.
• A group of British researchers are trying to enhance the virtual reality experience with virtual touch, taste, and smell.
• The painfully sad true story of the kids from Slumdog Millionaire.
• Star Trek is coming! A plot synopsis has hit the web. Plus, here's Chris Pine talking about playing Captain Kirk.
• Here's a sad story about geeks selling their prized geeky possessions to get by in the bad economy.
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix is getting a patch. Details here.
• The Beatles: Rock Band will ship for Xbox 360, Wii, and PS3 on 9/9/09. Number nine... number nine... number nine...
• Blade goes to Springfield!
• If you order Sonic Youth's new album early (starting March 24th), you'll be able to stream it on April 28th, and you'll also get a bonus limited-edition live album, plus additional MP3s.
• Miley Cyrus is pissed because Radiohead wouldn't hang out with her backstage at the Grammy's. Heh.
• Super Punch has a couple of equally great, but totally unrelated links: video of a shrimp fighting an octopus, from a Japanese game show where they apparently routinely force marine animals to fight each other; and a list of sci-fi novels available for free download as PDF files, including Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars.
• A new reality competition show called WCG Ultimate Gamer premieres next Tuesday on the Sci Fi Channel.
• A new trailer for the upcoming video game inFamous.
• GameFly has opened its first game rental kiosk, known as a G-Box, which sounds kind of dirty to us. Dirty hot.
• Batman: Arkham Asylum will be a Games for Windows Live release.
• New screenshots from Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits.
• A new viral site advertising BioShock 2: Sea of Dreams. (Via)
• Star Wars Battlefront III is rumored to be back with its original developer, Pandemic.
• The Supervillains list five pathetic Marvel superheroes not even worth killing.
• A blind man can now see with the help of a bionic eye.
• Turns out Saturn has yet another moon, although this one is only about a third of a mile wide. Uh... isn't that just called a space rock?

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