Irena Briganti, the Fox News PR assassin known as the media world's most vindictive flack, is quoted in the press all the time. But she's notoriously photo-shy. In fact it's been almost impossible to find a decent picture of her. Until now.

You are looking at, more or less, a portrait of the internet over an average 24 hours in 2012—higher usage in yellows and reds; lower in greens and blues—created by an anonymous researcher for the "Internet Census 2012" project. How, exactly, do you gather this much data? Well: not legally, that's for sure.

Who doesn't love the Ikea Monkey — the seven-month-old Rhesus Macaque found wandering around a Toronto Ikea yesterday in a shearling coat? ("His favorite," apparently, according to his previous owners who were relieved of him following the Ikea incident.) Everyone loves the Ikea Monkey, which is why Ikea Monkey is now…

What were the most powerful images of the year? Which images inspired you, which images moved you to tears, and which images broke your heart? Sure, you could look at Buzzfeed's list of 45 "incredibly inspiring pictures" ("warning: Some of these may break your heart") — but who has time to scroll through 45 pictures?…

Breaking: The Lord herself has called today's election for Barack Obama—and thrown her support behind gay marriage!—with these totally badass double rainbows over Honolulu polling place Hokulani Elementary, a school only a mile or two from where President Obama grew up. You should probably still vote if you haven't…

At long last, Americans can finally do their part to help out the Confederacy, or, anyway, the Museum of the Confederacy.

A new psych study out of Wake Forest University has found that everyone's best side is their left side. Really.

Stefanie Gordon slept for most of her flight from New York City to Palm Beach, Florida this morning. Luckily she woke up in time to snap these pictures through her window of the space shuttle Endeavour lifting off from Kennedy Space Center on its final mission to the International Space Station. (Click to enlarge.)

Radically transparent man of mystery Julian Assange says one of his sexual assault accusers took a "trophy photo" of him lying naked next to her in bed. He says this means she's lying about being raped. Which rape, you ask?

The first gay pride parade in Belgrade, Serbia since 2001 was the site of violent clashes between police and anti-gay protestors, who set fire to a building and reportedly chanted "death to homosexuals" and "the hunt has begun."

Back in our day, you didn't get your first social networking presence until you were at least old enough to walk. But a new study shows 92 percent of American babies under 2 have a social networking presence.

Tiger Woods hit a guy named Mark Pain (with a golf ball) on Saturday. Bummer! Except Pain is a photographer (for Britain's Daily Mail), and he was able to take a single, awesome shot before getting hit. [Daily Mail]

A tipster thought an image of William Shatner over the headline 'How the Chinese Explain the Rash of Horrific Knife Attacks on Schoolchildren' might be the best contrarian Slate piece ever. But it seems it was just a mistake.

Volcanic eruptions are very inconvenient if you have travel plans, or get caught up in one. But they are very nice to look at. Here's some of magma-and-ash-spewing Eyjafjallajokull's finest work.

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner reading what must be a hilarious issue of Mad in 1967, featuring the first Star Trek parody, "Star Blecch". [The Daily What]

Hey look: Here's a photo of Angelina Jolie with a baby adoption joke for a headline. As is often the case, you commenters went and did better in the headlining game than we did. Here are our favorites.

Ardent defender of their words and content, the Associated Press is now taking their talk to the streets! Where are their photo editors are trolling for pictures of today's crash these days?

So. There are some supposedly-real naked photographs of Kari Ferrell, the so-called Hipster Grifter, floating around this internet. We won't be posting them here because we're not savages. But if you're so inclined:here you go.

Rocker grrl Beth Ditto is none too pleased about her new Out magazine photo shoot. We hear that she is unhappy with how it came out. Though, considering the alternative, we think it's pretty flattering.