DIRTY PROJECTORS play an unpluggedy "No Intention" on SIRIUS XM.

MEAT PUPPETS stooped by KEXP for a mini-set streaming now via NPR.

TINY VIPERS did three free songs for Daytrotter.

YO LA TENGO played a Mountain Stage mini-set streaming via NPR. Plus, Ira Kaplan talks to ClashMusic about "what is a big influence?"

ROSEANNE CASH stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming now via MPR.

CARL SAGAN and STEVEN HAWKING: "A Glorious Dawn." Sagan auto-tuned sounds a bit like Kermit the Frog.

MY MORNING JACKET will get animated on American Dad, November 22nd.

WHITE RABBITS singer/guitarist Greg Roberts and drummer Jamie Levinson talk to Crawdaddy about their upward trajectory.

GLASVEGAS will be recording drums at Rick Rubin's house.

ART BRUT frontman Eddie Argos will release a side project in January.

CLASH of the TITANS teaser trailer is online.

LINDSAY LOHAN was secretly dating Heath Ledger when he died, according to her stage mom.

MADONNA is set to fly to Brazil to meet the parents of toyboy Jesus Luz.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and JESSICA BIEL are now friends with benefits, according to a completely anonymous source.

JENNIFER LOPEZ's sex tape is off the auction block, after a Los Angeles Superior Court entered a temporary injunction against its release by her first husband.

TRACY MORGAN drove people from Carnegie Hall with his raunchy stage routine.

RACHEL McADAMS may take a "major role" in Spider-Man 4 -- Felicia Hardy, known to comic fans as The Black Cat.

VETERANS' DAY:  Today is the 91st anniversary of the end of WWI.  My traditional links still hold up today:  "Mustang" at Social Sense reviews the holiday's history and thanks vets for the present.  Army Maj. Elizabeth L. Robbins reports that the current war has inspired a remarkable level of civic involvement that goes largely unnoticed -- except by those in the field or recovering stateside. BONUS: The WaPo's David Ignatius has an excellent piece today.

AFGHANISTAN: NATO leaders expect member states to commit more troops to train Afghanistan's expanding security forces at a meeting of alliance military representatives this month.

IRAQ: Arab and Kurdish military commanders in Kirkuk are making efforts at cooperation despite their bitter political differences -- a surprising development that offers some hope that one of Iraq's most difficult ethnic divides may be narrowing.

PANDA PAIR engineers an escape from the zoo.

UNLUCKY BUCK: Deer loses head-butt with lawn ornament.

A RARE TURTLE is kept from Indian authorities by hundreds of poor Hindu villagers, who believe it to be an incarnation of God.

TEEN vs. POLAR BEARS, on an ice floe in Canada.

DO BUNNIES really need this kind of help?