Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes

• With a gigantic, to-scale Gundam already constructed in Japan, why not follow up with a to-scale Gigantor? (Via)
• We love this magical explanation of the random items sometimes included with your French fries.
• Pirate Bay has its own YouTube now: VideoBay.
• The BBC got a 13-year-old to swap his iPod for a Sony Walkman for a week. Hilarity ensued.
• Cool search engines that aren't Google.
• Curious what's going to happen to Michael Jackson's stake in the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog now that he's dead? Epicenter fills us in on the details.
• Scientists have made a robot that chews and household robots that feed on pests to generate power.
• A web comic that retells The Lord of the Rings as an RPG played by impatient youngsters: DM of the Rings. (Via)
• A couple of new shots of Megan Fox in Jennifer's Body. Sadly, she is fully clothed in both. But in one she's wearing a cheerleader uniform!
• A look at the Star Trek shooting script reveals details on some scenes that didn't make the final cut.
• The increase in the number of nominees for Best Picture wasn't the only change to the rules for the Academy Awards; it's possible that in future ceremonies there will be no Best Song category.
• A web-based music player for Creative Commons licensed tracks.
• Tweetboard turns Twitter into a comment system for your site.
• Shiny Shiny details the 5 types of GMail user. Also, after recently listing the reasons why Twitter might kill blogs, the site now explains why people blog and why they'll keep doing it.
• Again comes the news that Sony is supposedly working on a gaming phone.
• Google had its comic about Chrome adapted into a manga.
• A Paul Bunyan/Babe the Blue Ox Centaur (or reverse minotaur?).
• Mecha Three Little Pigs, and hardcore Dorothy. (Via)
• An illustrator presents some amusing cartoon jumbles.
• Joystiq took a tour of Blizzard and brought back plenty of info about Starcraft 2.
• Edward James Olmos talks about The Plan.
• Cloverfield director Matt Reeves on his plans for the remake of Let the Right One in.
• Guy Pearce is in final negotiations to star with Katie Holmes in Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, a supernatural thriller being directed by Guillermo del Toro protege Troy Nixey.
• A photo of a jet going supersonic.
• Quantum processors sound pretty sexy.
• A 14-year-old girl became the youngest person ever to discover a supernova. And it just happens to have been a really strange supernova that defies everything we thought we knew about the phenomenon.
• 10 minutes of Batman: Arkham Asylum gameplay.
• The special features on the Blu-ray of Watchmen include director Zack Snyder taking you through the movie in great detail, shot by shot.

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