Whiz of the Web: Friday Fried Onions

• Supposedly Iranian state television is broadcasting a Lord of the Rings marathon in an attempt to keep people inside watching TV and not protesting in the streets (via). Another story says the government is blocking all online activity except gaming.
• How do you know if you're a hipster? Let Crave Online help. (Via)
• Minesweeper: The Movie. The sad thing is, they probably will try to make a movie based on that game eventually. (Via)
• That Jon Favreau. What a kidder.
• That's just how I roll. (Via Camden)
• Jezebel makes Fox News palatable by filling it with pictures of actual foxes (via). Meanwhile, Agent M is currently in the midst of a cute photo posting spree.
• How to meet and woo a nerdy girl. (Via)
• Roger Ebert's pretty amusing panning of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has already made the rounds, but now he's posted a longer piece about the film and what it means to cinema (via). Meanwhile, the folks at Cinematical select seven absurdities they kind of love about the movie. Except these sound more like things they didn't like about the movie. Finally, some odd spam about Transformers recently hit Twitter.
• The latest on the live-action film adaptations of Cowboy Bebop and Robotech.
• Yesterday was sad and surreal as two famous icons of popular culture passed away: Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. The news of the death of the King of Pop exploded across the internet in especially dramatic fashion (via Sarah).
• The 50 greatest trailers of all time. (Via)
• Michael Cera and Shia LaBeouf are supposedly among the top choices to play the founder of Facebook in David Fincher's The Social Network. In other casting news, it seems Scout Taylor-Compton will be playing Lita Ford in The Runaways, not Alessandra Torresani as previously reported.
• The bunnies do the first FIVE Harry Potter movies in only 30 seconds! Those little guys are incredible. (Via)
• Geekadelphia continues its series of Wizard World interviews with Battlestar Galactica stars with Edward James Olmos.
• Underwire reviews Virtuality.
• A furniture store used popular Iran-related hashtags to advertise on Twitter. That's just wrong.
• Top 10 literary ménages à trois. (Via)
• Doubt: The Video Game.
• Jimmy Fallon beat Tiger Woods at golf!
• Clay-mation Resident Evil.
• Blizzard is still hesitant about bringing its MMOs to the console.
• BurgerTime Deluxe!
• Neil Gaiman explains how the 20th-anniversary Sandman comic deal fell through, among other things.
• Who's really responsible for crop circles? Stoned wallabies, that's who!
• 2 inches worth of toppings on one pizza! And in other pizza advancements, an in-car pizza oven.
• Master Chief's senior portraits.
• The oldest musical instrument ever found!
• The world's largest alarm clock.
• Dude, that's just creepy.
• The cute story of a very geeky proposal at Wizard World Philly 2009.
• There might be a Smallville TV movie in the works called Metropolis.
• Morning spoilers! Plus some extra spoilers from the G.I. Joe movie novelization.
• The deadliest schoolgirls of all time.
• Apparently there could be life on Titan if you just cooked it a little longer.

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