A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.
- First of all, the news that swept across the geek-iverse like an awesome-storm yesterday: one of the greatest fantasy sagas of all time, A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, is going to be adapted into an HBO TV series, with each season covering one novel (there are four books so far, with the fifth on its slow way through Martin's mind and hands and onto the page). When we read the news, there was a widening of the eyes, a deep gasp inward...and then we couldn't breathe for a few seconds. So...freaking...awesome!! (Via)
- Groundhog Day is coming, and this year the Pennsylvania Tourism Board is going all out with an online game/experience wherein you have to help Punxsutawney Phil in his cross-country search for his shadow, who has cracked under the pressure and run off. Yes, it's exceedingly silly. (Via Nicole)
- Real-life samurai superhero saves police. Yeah, that pretty much says it all right there. (Via)
- What do you think, Tom Hanks as the next James Bond? Maybe? Nah, maybe not. (Via)
- Gotta love this story: a Philadelphian successfully lost weight on the Wii diet! He didn't change his habits at all except to add playing 30 minutes of Wii Sports every day, and after six weeks he lost 9 pounds and 2% of his body fat. Just another good reason to play lots of Wii!
- Okay, no video game is that fun - and the Atari 2600 certainly wasn't.
- Very strange - a bunch of stop-motion animated action figures play Guitar Hero II. Thank you, internet. Speaking of Guitar Hero, looks like Neversoft will be developing the games from now on, and apparently they could use your help.
- So you may have heard, somewhere or other, that a World of Warcraft expansion got released a little while ago which allowed players to level up beyond the previous limit of 60. Well, some geek already got himself up to level 70, in a little matter of 28 hours.
More after the jump...
- If you're like this Phillyist, you hate sitting on the toilet, not doing anything, while your technological gadgets lie useless, yards away from you. Well, lucky for us, there are some super tech-enabled toilets coming our way - like the Microsoft eToilet, and this totally sweet Kohler toilet being offered in a Roto-Rooter contest.
- We're rather pleased to learn that the creators of Lost have a plan and an end-point in mind, and that it will happen probably during the fourth or fifth season, finishing the series off at around 90 or 100 episodes. We love the show, but it's telling the kind of story that really needs to come to a conclusion soon, or risk dragging itself out into complete stupidity and irrelevance, like "The X-Files."
- Crud. Now Disney's got their clutches on John Carter of Mars. We're still glad that it's going to be turned into a movie series...but we liked it better when Paramount and Jon Favreau were attached.
- Speaking of Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow has just been cast as Virginia "Pepper" Potts, Tony Stark's personal assistant, in Favreau's upcoming Iron Man film.
- Remember the guy we mentioned the other day who's developing the bear-proof, bullet-proof armor suit? Well here's a sweet video of the suit in action. It sure can take a beating!
- The blog Screenhead has put together a fascinating list of the most unfilmable novels. Check it. (Via)
- Jim Caviezel is going to play a mysterious man from space who falls to Earth during Viking times and has to help them fight a monstrous alien that followed him down. It's a sci-fi adventure epic called Outlander. Sounds sweet! G4 has some video of the monster.
- Who's up for a really poor quality video of the first couple minutes of the next Highlander movie?! Probably not many of you, huh? Ah, well. It's there anyway, if you're interested. (Via)
- Sounds like one of our favorite movies from last year's Philadelphia Film Festival may have helped to bring about some pretty important reforms to the MPAA's crappy film rating system. Bravo!
- Dude - GForce: Battle of the Planets movie. Sweet.
- Looks like the new Ninja Turtles movie is going to be Lovecraftian! Sort of. Anyway, this new trailer isn't all good, but we're still hopeful. (Via)
This photo of author George R. R. Martin wearing a sort of Cthulhu pirate hat brought to you by Flickr user Brother Bimbo del Doppio Senso
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