Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices

• Nerd cakes! We've posted some of these before, but others are new to us. (Via)
• 100 essential skills for geeks.
• 5 auto atrocities to throw down a black hole.
• Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine have signed on to star in a new indie horror comedy called Tucker and Dale vs. Evil.
• Warren Ellis presents Quatermass.
• Stunning Audi sculpture.
• Bottle cities.
• Clever business cards.
• Ads depicting sci-fi classrooms.
• Dudes were doing this all weekend, and are still at it as of this writing: playing through every Mario game to raise money for Child's Play.
• Another Michael Jackson video game, apparently in development for several months, is on its way.
• Mass Effect 2 gameplay footage.
• The cast of the films talks about what life will be like without Harry Potter.
• The kid in The Road might also get a role in the American remake of Let the Right One in.
• Leonard Nimoy talks about what he thinks might be next for "Spock Prime."
• The ISS discusses how to choose your evil pet.
• A dragon sculpture made almost entirely out of soda can pop tabs.
• USB sunglasses.
• Simon Pegg and Nick Frost talk about their new movie, Paul.
• John Wayne's final performance on film is about to be made available to the public. The straight-to-DVD movie is called Thunder Riders of the Golden West and it's about trucking cowboys looking for gold on the site of atomic bomb tests.
• The Pentagon is backing a plan to turn crickets, cicadas, and katydids into cyborg chemical detectors to help protect soldiers from chemical attacks.
• Photos of engineering disasters.

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