A Redditor claimed to have spoken with the best friend of the real-life Annoying Facebook Girl today. Was he being honest, or was it just an elaborate hoax?

Rebecca Black! During 2011, search for her grew 10,000%. This volume took her to the top of the Google Zeitgeist list of rising searches of the year. The week after her video was released, "Rebecca Black" was more searched than "Lady Gaga."

The pre-trial hearing of suspected Wikileaks source Bradley Manning began today in Fort Meade, where hundreds of his supporters and activists gathered outside the court to protest the charges against the 23 year old ex-Army intelligence analyst.

The divided viewpoints on Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) was reaffirmed during today's House Judiciary Committee hearing, with opposition from both parties and introduction of an alternative bill dubbed Online Protection & ENforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN).

While it was originally unclear, a user tip unlocked the origin of the vectorized Luigi image: a thread on the now-defunct LUELinks board dating back to August 2007.