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Conceived by the guys who brought California-based The Counter, BUILT is giving guests the same premium burger with the luxury of creating their own in a new, fast-serve environment, which means cheaper burgers. Expect a college-age crowd (thanks to its location near USC) and, best of all, free on-site parking. Wait. Best of all: cheaper burgers.

Get off Instagram, don’t design minimalist posters for Wes Anderson movies, and stop talking about decades you didn’t live in, just for a second: it’s time for actual nostalgia. Desert Noises, a four-piece indie rock band hailing from Utah, have released a simply gorgeous music video—filmed in the 1940s.

Two years ago, actor Adam Goldberg sat around with his girlfriend brainstorming what the next new big social media thing would be. Already a man of Tumblr and Twitter (and hesitantly of Instagram), he thought he had it: “It’s sound. It’s got to be sound.”But unless you count the collective groans of boyfriends around the world when Pinterest caught fire, Goldberg was wrong. The next big thing, two years later, is video. More accurately, it’s Vine, an iOS app allowing you to capture six looping seconds with a stop-action camera, helmed by Twitter. Less than two weeks old, the app has seen a deluge of early adopters (and a lot of porn buzz), but what might be the most interesting thing about Vine is that it’s already been won.

I can imagine the Grumpy Cat isn't too pleased today now that there's another feline star on the internet breaking the heart of any dummy with WiFi. Meet Sam. He's a cat. He has what appear to be eyebrows. Sam, you dumb, cat, you're not supposed to have eyebrows! Eyebrows are for people! Ugh, when will cats ever learn? Well, I suppose we, as a human race, should keep taking pictures of them when they resemble us. And then sell them! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the pound because I'd much rather monetize my cat pictures than blog about them. [via Gawker]

I know that many of you believe that Justin Bieber is possibly a robot, perhaps just made out of plastic material resembling real human skin, and is just a money-making machine for a small group of anti-abortion Canadians. One might assume he looks like a Ken doll down there: no unsavory organs, no evidence of a GI system. Oh, you thought wrong, my friend, and I can prove it. 

Always one to eschew traditional mediums in favor of edginess, Lady Gaga decided to ink the title of her new album right onto her wrist, then instagrammed it for the whole world to behold. SO EDGY! I might just die right now, with my paws up.

Ugh, rich kids. It isn’t enough that they get into the best Ivy League universities, fly around the world in their own helicopters, and eat black truffle chips while ironically watching Girls in an attempt to relate to the unwashed masses—in their own Bang & Olufsen-outfitted home theaters, no less. They have to ruin Instagram with their La-Mer’d up faces too!

Just in time for next week's Fourth of July celebrations, Lana Del Rey, the strangest of indie pop ducks currently making dreamy and slightly insufferable music right now, has unveiled the video for her newest single, "National Anthem." I try my best to refrain from using "epic" to describe things that just end up on YouTube, but this might be Del Rey's biggest accomplishment in the sense that it looks like she actually tried. 

How is Internet Week different from any other week, you might ask? Are you required to do more tweeting, Facebook stalking, online shopping, Grindring and illegal downloading? No, you are not.