Whiz of the Web: Monday Meat Slices

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment.

• Apparently there will be a hotel in space in 5 years. A three day stay will cost you a cool $4 million.
• As you may have noticed from past postings, we're pretty big fans of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Reading lead singer Toren Atkinson's blog this morning, we had these observations: Supercthonic would be an awesome title for an album. And the entire concept of writing a song about the "living fossil" coelacanth and titling it "Coelacanthem" is pure brilliance.
• As many expected he would, New Line co-chairman Robert Shaye seems to be relaxing his former position on Peter Jackson and the company is once again talking with him about directing a film version of The Hobbit.
• The rights to make new Conan movies have moved again, this time to Millennium Films, and this time it sounds like it might actually happen; Millennium plans to start production by next spring on a Conan film that's more faithful to Robert E. Howard's original stories.
• Those lucky bastards at Wizard World in Chicago this weekend got to see a sneak peek of what sounds like some really awesome footage from Dark Knight. Sci-Fi Wire has a pretty detailed description of the footage here; if you keep a close eye on YouTube, you might be able catch some pirated video before it gets pulled by the studio.
• You can watch the intro to Beautiful Katamari for the Xbox 360 - and, perhaps more importantly, listen to the new intro music - right here.