The Week In Geek...

A round-up of geeky news you might have missed...

(1) Star Wars: The Musical: The six Star Wars films are being 're-imagined' into a live, two-hour show which debuts in London in April.

(2) Democracy Usurps Feudalism: The western world's last remaining feudal nation, the island of Sark, has become its youngest democracy.

(3) Does This Mean We Are Not Alone? The Hubble telescope has found both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of a distant planet which could be the first indications of alien life forms.

(4) Watchmen Goes Mobile: Exclusive documentaries, iPhone applications and film footage from Watchmen has been made available on iTunes - but (except for the video podcast) just in the U.S. at present.

(5) A Date With The Doctor: In case you'd missed it, The Next Doctor, the Christmas Doctor Who special is on at 6pm on Christmas Day in the UK; then Doctor Who At The Proms, a musical show which features Music of the Spheres (a specially-filmed scene with the Doctor and the Graske, written by Russell T Davies) is on New Year's Day at 1.5opm.

(6) Kiss Of Deaf: Chinese woman goes deaf after passionate kiss; newspapers warn of 'dangers of kissing'.

(7) Iron Man Shoots For Musical Gong: The original score for Iron Man has been nominated for a Grammy. The music award winners will be announced on February 8.

(8) Deadlands Coming To A Board Near You: The cult wild west/horror RPG setting Deadlands is being transformed into a boardgame next year by Twilight Creations, publishers of the popular tile game Zombies!!! Sadly, Pinnacle's own Deadlands prepainted miniatures game, Slaughter Gulch, has been scrapped.

(9) Actors' Strike Could Scuttle Oscars: Actors are being balloted in January over the possibility of a strike, just ahead of the Oscar ceremony.

(10) 'Oldest Brain' Unearthed: Archaeologists in York have dug up the remains of what could be one of the world's oldest brains.

(11) Carlyle Steps Through Stargate: Robert Carlyle has effectively ruled himself out of being Doctor Who's 11th Doctor by taking the lead role in the new Stargate franchise - Stargate Universe.