1. If you’ve ever been curious about who would win in a potato sack race between Michelle Obama and Jimmy Fallon — well, now you know. The hilarious bit was part of the First Lady’s effort to promote her Let’s Move campaign.

2. Nicki Minaj will be performing her new song “Roman Holiday” at the Grammys this Sunday night before officially releasing her latest Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded single, “Starships,” the following morning on Ryan Seacrest‘s radio show. [via MTV News]

3. Hot on the heels of the Redbox/Verizon deal, Amazon has announced its own plans to partner with Viacom to bring TV shows from all of its networks to the Prime streaming service. [via Slashfilm]

4. Tina Fey is in talks to help filmmaker Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum, Real Steel) bring an adaptation of the popular children’s series Fancy Nancy to the big screen. While it’s not exactly the followup to Mean Girls that we were hoping for, this is excellent news for little girls everywhere. [via EW]

5. An “ambitious plan” by the design firm OLIN will transform the plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art into “a more efficient, pleasing and environmentally friendly space, with new fountains, tree-shaded allées, seating areas, museum-run kiosks and softer, energy-efficient nighttime lighting.” [via NYT]

Bonus Buzz: Gun-Slingin’ Kristen Wiig Appears On ‘Portlandia’

Today at Flavorpill, we thought that Google did a nice job of honoring Steve Jobs — Gawker, not so much. We imagined what Bob Dylan might be singing to himself in the wake of his not-so-shocking Nobel Prize defeat. We enjoyed BuzzFeed’s mini-interviews with 34 of Occupy Wall Street’s various protestors — a group that evidently includes an unshowered Dan Humphrey. We found ourselves crushing even harder on the women of Parks and Recreation after watching this video of them eating candy. We had way too much fun looking at photos of people freaking out in a haunted house. We took The Hairpin’s delightful “Which George Eliot Heroine Are You?” quiz. We were happy to see many of our personal favorites made Videogum’s list of the 10 best movie opening title sequences. We tried to picture Michelle Obama in a Woody Allen movie. We started thinking about who we’re going to be for Halloween this year — perhaps Lisbeth Salander would be a good choice? And finally, we revisited some of our favorite childhood toys in this adorable stop-motion video.

1. In response to Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue, Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes has decided to compile his own swimsuit publication. We don’t know about you, but we think that Picasso looks kind of airbrushed… [via Kottke]

2. For some reason Rush Limbaugh spent part of yesterday’s show implying that Michelle Obama is fat — or at least eats to much fatty food: “The problem is — and dare I say this — it doesn’t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice. And then we hear that she’s out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving, yeah it does — what do you mean, what do I mean?” [via Gawker]

3. Is Radiohead planning to release a companion album to The King of Limbs in the not-so-distant future? More importantly, how many of us would really care at this point? [via NME]

4. Last week, Detroit’s RoboCop statue reached its goal of $50,000 in fully crowd-sourced funding thanks to Kickstarter. Now io9 gives you a first look at what it could look like.

5. Paramount has decided to release a 40-minute longer Director’s Fan Cut of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never for an exclusive one-week run beginning this Friday, February 25, only in 3D. Slashfilm explains why even non-fans should care.

Bonus link: Sir Paul McCartney dancing at a Lady Gaga concert

If you’re a fan of the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America,” you know that for every intimidating panel of culinary specialists that get to judge the delectable-looking offerings from the competitors, there’s always another panel made entirely of odd ducks.  We imagine it might be a tad frustrating, if you’re an iron chef, to get all set up for the battle of your life and realize you’re cooking for the palate of…Jewel? And yet, these weirdo celebrity guests often provide the most entertaining judgings, if only because of their lack of culinary refinement (or surprising abundance of it.) Decide who rocked and who shouldn’t be allowed near a kitchen, after the jump.

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Today at Flavorpill, we rediscovered five vintage Apple products that time forgot. We learned how not to treat your ex when you’re both appearing on national TV. We liked the idea of a Jonathan Demme-directed adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. We tried to figure out whether this frightening trailer for Eli Roth’s Clown is real or fake — either way, it’s terrifying. We wondered what kind of Jedi mind control Michelle Obama has over the fashion industry. We watched a bridge in Toronto get demolished. We wanted to take a bite out of the world’s largest toast portrait until we found out that it’s a picture of someone’s mother-in-law. We were rather uninspired by the name of Conan’s new band: Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band. And finally we said a sad goodbye to Happy Days star Tom Bosley. He was always one of our favorite TV dads.

Drew Friedman’s Too Soon?: Famous/Infamous Faces 1995-2010 features the artist’s scathing, closely studied caricatures of celebrities and politicians from a nightmarish pop-culture alterna-verse.

Originally published in the pages of publications like New York magazine, Time, and The New Republic, Friedman’s images portray modern icons in all of their grotesque, media-puffed glory. His pantheon of parodied subjects includes everyone from Michael Jackson to Cindy McCain — all of whom are depicted in a creepily cartoonish style.

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1. Some random guy doing Ian McKellen doing The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song [via HuffPo]
2. The author of Let The Right One In has written a zombie book that we hope becomes a zombie film. [via GeekTyrant]
3. Download Spin’s free Bonnaroo 2010 mixtape, featuring tracks from Phoenix, Chromeo, and the National. [via Vulture]
4. Do you know what the M’s in “M&Ms” stand for? [via Today I Found Out]
5. Watch a second grader give Michelle Obama the third degree about the immigration debate. [via GOOD]
6. Pee-Wee Herman is coming to Broadway! [via EW]
7. Kreepie Kats: Don’t Leave, Jacob! (Not Without Doing Full Frontal) [via The Awl]
8. The world’s largest inflatable airship is huge. So why can it only carry 2,000 pounds? [via Kottke]
9. If we were going to pick a visual artist to mess with, it wouldn’t be Tracey Emins. [via Jezebel]
10. Read the beginning of Bret Easton Ellis’s new book, Imperial Bedrooms. [via Esquire]

The 2010 celebrity commencement speech has been a strange one, so far. While we continue to await Lisa Kudrow’s talk at Vassar, Wyclef Jean’s keynote at Western Connecticut State, and several others, this season has already yielded a treasure trove of wonderful (okay, and some awful) wisdom. We may not agree with all of the 10 lessons we’ve collected here (Obama’s diatribe against technology, Glenn Beck’s very existence), but we’ve taken other luminaries’ (Meryl Streep, Bill Clinton, Rachel Maddow) words to heart. Who can resist a graduation season that features both a goofy Anderson Cooper and a dead-serious Alec Baldwin?

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1. For the first time ever, Americans would rather be surfing the web than watching TV in their free time. Is that because they’re watching TV on the Internet? [via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
2. This is strange: Pixar director Brad Bird (Ratatouille, The Incredibles) is in negotiations to direct Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible IV. [via Vulture]
3. What do you think of Twitter‘s forthcoming redesign? Do you want more stats? [via The Awl]
4. Barack and Michelle Obama will make a taped appearance on next week’s Idol Gives Back, a special two-hour charity performance/fundraiser. [via FOX News]
5. Robert Pattinson is in discussions to play Kurt Cobain in David Fincher‘s upcoming biopic. [via PopCrunch]

Bonus link: A narrative mashup of 500 Quentin Tarantino/Coen Brothers scenes

1. MGMT‘s upcoming sophomore release, Congratulations, which isn’t due out until April 13, leaked over the weekend. As a result, the band is now streaming it here. [via Vulture]
2. Rumor is that Parks and Recreation‘s Aziz Ansari is in final talks to host the 2010 MTV Movie Awards. [via EW]
3. When Showtime’s Nurse Jackie returns for a second season this month, Dr. Cooper will be tweeting in character and in real time from @DoctorCoop. [via NYT]
4. A new Joyce Carol Oates short story from the latest issue of the New Yorker is online for your reading pleasure.
5. Did you see Michelle Obama‘s cameo on last night’s episode of The Simpsons? The character was voiced by none other than Angela Bassett. (video) [via HuffPo]

Bonus link: An interview with Jonathan Lethem‘s Second Life avatar