Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions

A steaming hot pile of our favorite things from around the internets.

• As we did in our news post, let's get all the holiday-related stuff out of the way first: just in time for Thanksgiving, Cinematical finally announced the winners of their Halloween costume contest (definitely not our favorites, but we never got around to voting, so we guess it's our own fault). They also have a list of Seven Movie Characters They'd Hate to Have Thanksgiving With. Meanwhile, 1UP is talking turkey (via) - turkey games, that is - and Download Squad has some virtual stores you might want to visit instead of going out into the Black Friday madness today.
• Casting news for the G-Force movie! Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi and Tracy Morgan will provide the voices for three of the lead computer-animated characters, and Bill Nighy and Will Arnett will be playing live action roles.
• Some dude figured out how to make your PC register the Rock Band drum controller.
• Toren Atkinson has just posted on his blog part one in what he promises will be a series of posts on the history of comic books.
• Spider-Man: The Musical was an inevitability, really, and it's something we would have been amused by but not actually interested in - except for the fact that it's the amazing Julie Taymor who's trying to make it, and she wants her lead duo from Across the Universe - Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood - to play Peter and MJ.
• Maggie Q is rumored to be the front-runner to play the role of Silver Fox in the upcoming Wolverine movie.
• Kind of an interesting little featurette about the process of filming Dark Knight in IMAX. (Via)
• Wired has a mind-blowing little article about the weird tricks a Harvard physicist is making light beams perform using Bose-Einstein condensates cooled nearly to absolute zero.
• The fight against DRM marches onward! Now British music retailers are coming out against it, too.
• Wow, now this is really taking one for the team. The folks at LoadingReadyRun have pledged that the more money they receive for the Child's Play charity, the more they will play Desert Bus - widely agreed to be one of the worst and most agonizing games of all time.
• Finally, Joystiq has a fun clip from Chowder that gamers might enjoy.

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