Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you.

• We haven't read the Inheritance Trilogy, but the trailer for the film adaptation of the first chapter, Eragon, is pretty promising. Sure, it's your typical fantasty epic, young boy is the chosen one, magic and dragons and swords, let's defeat the evil king against terrible odds kind of thing. But it looks cool! The only thing that's really disturbing us is the fact that Jeremy Irons is in it. We've got nothing against the man normally, but his presence in a movie about dragons is giving us horrifying Dungeons & Dragons: The Movie flashbacks. (Via)
• Joystiq has the word that Wal-Mart won't be having Nintendo Wii demo kiosks in their stores due to fears that kids might hurt themselves or others while flailing about in their attempts to play the games. Pfft! C'mon, Wal-Mart. No dirty words in your music, no Wii, nothing the least bit dangerous or cool. Could you get any more lame?!
• Hamlet, Act II, Scene II (the bit where the prince meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) performed by cat people. Just as pointless and wonderful as it sounds. (Via)
• Time-lapse video of a woman's pregnancy - the gestation, not the birth. Basically, you watch her belly grow really big in about 20 seconds. It's pretty cool. (Via)
• Apparently, they're making Aliens vs. Predator 2. Who knew? Anyway, there's some casting news available, if you care; nobody really exciting is involved as far as we can tell. We weren't one of the many people who decried the first film with such vehemence; we actually thought it was pretty good, all things considered. But even we're kind of disappointed they're making a sequel - or at least, a sequel that doesn't include Ash or Jason or somebody cool like that.
• There's a pretty cool Flash game up now to promote M&M's Dark Chocolate. It's a big painting containing 50 visual puns that suggest the title of a "dark" movie (mostly horror movies and thrillers). You click the clue on the painting you think you've solved and type in the title. Solve them all fast enough and you end up on the Wall of Fame. We're headed back to try to guess some more right now... (Via)

Photo of the Wal-Mart on Karl-Marx St. in Berlin by Flickr user L'Hibou