Whiz of the Web: Thirsty Thursday

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you.

• WHYY is getting together with Bassetts Ice Cream to create a new ice cream flavor, but they're asking YOU to help. The question is, if WHYY were ice cream, what would it taste like? Submit your ideas for a new flavor based on WHYY to icecream@whyy.org. The only guidelines for the contest are that flavors be developed around chocolate and vanilla. Also, all entries must be received by noon on March 31, 2008.
• Web comics! We love them. Penny Arcade put up what may be the best memorial to Gary Gygax we've seen yet. Once again, Basic Instructions teaches us how to live, laugh, love... and win at rock-paper-scissors. Finally, VGCats presents 100 Kirbys.
• "Scientists at a Japanese university said Thursday they believed another planet up to two-thirds the size of the Earth was orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system." Apparently nobody has actually seen the planet; their calculations just lead them to believe it must exist. At the moment it's being called "Planet X," and, says the lead researcher, "Because of the very cold temperature, its surface would be covered with ice, icy ammonia and methane." (Via)
• CHUD got a little more info out of Djimon Hounsou about that dream project he said he was going to be in, and apparently it's Conan-related. Huh. That's unexpected!
• The news has been spreading across the internet that Patrick Swayze has cancer. Some outlets are reporting that it's terminal and he has only weeks or months to live, but the real story seems to be that he "has a very limited amount of disease and appears to be responding well to treatment."
• A charity in the UK whose goal is "to encourage more people to walk, and to ensure our streets and towns are designed to allow people to do that" is spearheading a campaign to pad lampposts on Brick Lane in London to prevent "walking and texting" injuries. That may be the funniest thing we've heard today.
• We keep saying the Watchmen movie is going to totally suck... but we have to admit, we were pretty excited to see the first photos of the main cast members in costume, posted by director Zack Snyder on the film's official production blog. (Via)
• Check out this impressive, thrilling action and effects clip from The Red Baron, a German-produced WWI dogfighting movie starring Lena Headey of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. There's also a pretty cool German-language trailer for the flick on that same page. Here's hoping the movie gets a US release date soon! (Via)