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......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Some sad news this morning: the actor Roy Scheider, whom most of us remember from his role in Jaws, has passed away. It still doesn't appear to be officially official, but the WGA strike is pretty much over now. Whew! Thank God. Now get back to work, people!!! We need our bread and circuses! The English-language trailer for Forbidden Kingdom is......

Fun around town, for $10 or less: If You Missed Them on Conan: Bell X1 performs at Upstairs at World Café Live (3025 Walnut), 9PM. Free Where’s That?: Ars Nova Workshop presents Little Women and Where From Here? at the Rotunda (4014 Walnut), 8PM. Free An Inconvenient Puppet: Puppet Karaoke Inconvenient Goof Show, hosted by Al Gor, at the M Room (15 W. Girard), 9PM. $5 Go Batty: Aderbat, Bon Savant, An American Chinese, and......

A tall, icy glass of our favorite internet junk, just for you. Welcome to the next big steps forward in lolcats meme technology: lolsecretz (via) and lolthulhu. Brilliant! Artsy gamers just might want to enter Konami's Design Your Own Contra Character contest. Make a game character that embodies what Contra is all about and you could have your design included as an unlockable character in Contra 4 Mobile, get your name in the game credits,......

The best of the internet, chopped into tiny bits and grilled for your enjoyment. Apparently there will be a hotel in space in 5 years. A three day stay will cost you a cool $4 million. As you may have noticed from past postings, we're pretty big fans of The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Reading lead singer Toren Atkinson's blog this morning, we had these observations: Supercthonic would be an awesome title for an......

The shapeless dough of the internet, formed into tasty pellets and baked to perfection, just for you. Curious about that new Pepsi Summer Mix you've seen in the stores? Well, don't try it for yourself, for God's sake! Apropos of Something is here to try it for you, and report back just how awful it really is! In this case... it's apparently actually not really that awful. So maybe you should try it after all.......

It’s the final day of station WHYY 90.9’s fundraising drive. I know, I know, you don’t like to be asked for money, because you’re a stingy bastard, and you hate those annoying pledge drives, but just think of all the moments that you’ve spent with good old NPR this year. Checking the weather before you leave the house on Morning Edition; commuting with Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane; picking-up great conversation starters on Fresh Air......

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with......

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Albert Hammond Jr., guitarist for the indie-rock group The Strokes, just released his solo album, Yours to Keep, last month. Tonight, he'll be singing along with his band (Marc Philippe Eskenazi - guitar / keyboards, Steve Schiltz - guitar and Todd Dahlhoff - bass) at the Theatre of the Living Arts starting at 7PM. New Musical Express (NME), a huge music magazine in the U.K., equates Hammond's new CD to "an intimate, frequently beautiful and......

What's new and/or interesting on TV this week. The Riches (Mon, 10PM-11PM, FX) - The pilot episode of a new show featuring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as a couple of gypsies who decide to steal the identities - and the palatial estate - of a rich couple they killed by accident on a deserted road. But they've also stolen money from their gypsy clan, which means the leader is after them. Interesting concept, and......

Tomorrow night, The Slip, New England's quickest-rising stars (not named Matsuzaka), are hitting Philly for a headlining show at World Cafe Live. If you're a fan of bands like Umphreys McGee, you'll be blown away by these three dudes. Last time through the area, they opened for My Morning Jacket and didn't really get a chance, in a six-song set, to prove why they've been voted Boston's best live band. Phillyist has been sold on......

...If you want to be like the Annuals at the TLA this past Wednesday. The band seemed to have a love/hate relationship when it came to percussion. At times five out of six band members devoted their energies to maracas, wood blocks, or simply picking up a spare set of drumsticks and battering the nearest drum set (there were two to choose from). But, when the percussion section ended, band members simply tossed the used......

...Poop: People bronze their babies' poop? Seriously? (Via The Superficial.) ...Talent: This is implying that you think Jessica Simpson can sing at all. (Via What Would Tyler Durden Do?) ...Punk'd: Poor Bruce Willis. First his ex marries a man-child, and then his pal does what the man-child is famous for. (Via New York Daily News.) ...Aging: Poor Mick Jagger. It can't feel good to know that Keith Richards will most certainly outlive you by......

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom. Shanghaiist gets all excited this week over a new nightclub in the city unfortunately named "Snatch" and Mike Tyson is scheduled to......