Whiz of the Web: Tuesday Torpedoes

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Total lunar eclipse, 8/29/07, over New Zealand

Some cool stuff is coming out of the NY Toy Fair, including pics of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull LEGO figures; some news and behind-the-scenes footage about upcoming movies like Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, G.I. Joe, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars; and Mattel Speed Racer toys.

Apparently there's going to be a total eclipse of the moon tomorrow night which will reach its peak for Philadelphians around 10:26PM. The moon will be visible throughout, but will turn red.

Right around the time the moon will be turning red as blood, the US Navy should be making their first attempt at shooting down that faulty spy satellite we mentioned a while back. Just make sure you're not anywhere near the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii at that time. (Via Jill)

Schrödinger's LOLcat.

Awesome - a song created using only sound effects from Windows 98 and Windows XP. Bill Gates must be so proud.

Lindsay Lohan has posed nude for a recreation of Marilyn Monroe's famous 1962 photo shoot, known as "The Last Sitting." As you might expect, the pics are not entirely safe for work. (Via)

Aladygma may be the codename for Cloverfield 2. Or it may be the name of a different J.J. Abrams project. Or it could be just a crazy rumor that's entirely meaningless. Who knows?

The Accidental Video Game Porn Archive is a collection of screen shots from video games that just happen to look like porn - but they're not. But they look like they are. It's funny! And marginally safe for work! Theoretically, anyway. (Via)

Word is that Deadpool and The Blob will both appear in the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Even better, Ryan Reynolds will apparently be playing Deadpool.

Jason Statham gave up some details about his upcoming film Death Race in a recent interview. Apparently it's more an homage than a direct remake of the original film.

Your first look at the Smurfs movie. Well, it looks like the cartoon. But the cartoon really wasn't very good so we're not sure if that's good news or not. (Via)

Watchmen has finished filming. Prepare to be disappointed! And if you're Alan Moore, prepare your black magic curses.

The Knight Rider TV movie got incredible ratings, which unfortunately means there will probably be a series now. We say "unfortunately" because we watched the first half of the thing and then had to turn it off because it was just completely awful. But hey, we did watch that first half, so we guess we're part of the problem.

MySpace is currently in talks with the four major record-labels to offer its users an ad-supported music delivery service. It'll be DRM-free, but no word yet on whether the music will be delivered via downloads or streaming. If it's streaming, we're not interested, but the promise of DRM-free music downloads might actually convince us to set foot on MySpace again.

Looks like they've nailed down a lot more of the cast of the upcoming Street Fighter film adaptation: Kristin Kreuk of Smallville is Chun Li, Michael Clarke Duncan is Balrog, Chris Klein is Nash, and Rick Yune is Gen, with Moon Bloodgood, Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, Singapore's Edmund Chen, and Hong Kong film star Cheng Pei Pei also starring.

Cinematical has a pic of the titular object from Richard Kelly's new flick The Box, as well as an image of the logo, a plot synopsis, and some interesting casting news about G.I. Joe. Apparently Jonathan Pryce has landed a "small but integral" role as President of the United States in the film.

After getting a new director a while back, Astro Boy is apparently now getting a new script. This doesn't seem like a good sign...

Cinematical has unveiled their Oscar predictions.

Christopher Lloyd has reprised his role as Doc Brown, complete with time-traveling DeLorean! Sadly, it was just for a music video, and not for a new Back to the Future movie. Still, the behind-the-scenes pics and video are pretty exciting. (Via)

Photo of the total lunar eclipse as seen over New Zealand in August of last year by Flickr user jurvetson

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