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    When 18-year-old Jackie Rosas of California saw something disturbing on a blog she follows regularly, she didn't just feel worried for a minute, then click over to a new site. Rosas took action, and that helped save the life of a teenager she'd never even met.

    It's a pretty amazing story. Rosas was able to help authorities track down the identity of the 16-year-old girl who made a suicidal threat on her Tumblr blog, even though they only knew her first name. 

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    Some people give Jimmy Kimmel a hard time for routinely asking parents to pull mean pranks on their kids in the name of quality television entertainment. Personally, I can't get enough of those awesomely cruel videos of children weeping over their terrible Christmas presents or reacting to the upsetting news that their parents ate all their Halloween candy, but if you prefer your Kimmel Kid Programming to be a little more on the awwwww side, may I recommend The Baby Bachelor.

    In the clip, Kimmel pokes fun at ABC's The Bachelor/The Bachelorette franchise with a little help from his adorable nephew Wesley. Wesley is single, lives with his parents, and he's looking for love ... while perched in a stroller and dressed in a pint-sized tux. This video is so freaking cute you just might forgive Kimmel for his kid-pranking ways (although in true Kimmel form, at least one child does a bang-up job of crying on cue for the camera).

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    You've seen the pants-wettingly hilarious Bad Lip Reading videos, right? On the off chance you're unfamiliar, it's a YouTube channel run by an anonymous music/video producer who has a diabolical knack for overdubbing bizarre vocals over existing footage. Bad Lip Reading has taken on Twilight, Hunger Games, the NFL, and now -- hooray! -- it's The Walking Dead's turn.

    I really and truly don't know how the genius behind Bad Lip Reading manages to match the lip movements and voices so well, but he/she knocked it out of the park again with this send-up of our favorite zombie show. Even the most annoying characters are laugh-out-loud hilarious (Andrea whining about how it's not fair that she doesn't have a banjo? HAHAHA), and wait until you see the Governor's musical number.

    Yes. Musical number. You really don't want to miss this clip.

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    I'm not automatically charmed by fan-created YouTube prom/dance invitations sent to celebrities (sometimes they seem more manipulative/creepy than adorable, you know what I mean?), but I have to admit that Pepperdine University student Shaina Kohli put together a pretty great clip for Joe Jonas when she asked him to her senior formal. It was so cute, in fact, that not only did Joe Jonas respond with a counter-invite for her to attend a Jonas Brothers concert -- he also surprised her in person on the Today show to ask her to be his special guest.

    That would make a sweet little feel-good story on its own, but what's really amazing about the whole thing is the video Jonas made for Shaina. It is, without a doubt, the most hilariously awesome response a celebrity has EVER made to a YouTube invitation.

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    Perhaps the most amazing thing about the Internet's answer to Seth MacFarlane's "We Saw Your Boobs" Oscars song isn't that someone created a parody video, but that they did it so quickly. Just two days after MacFarlane shocked and awed critics with his widely-panned musical name-check of actresses in the audience who'd been topless in movies (Meryl Streep, Naomi Watts, Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway, Halle Berry, Nicole Kidman, and Kate Winslet), Kevin Gisi posted a spoof aimed at male actors. It's called, awesomely, "We Saw Your Junk."

    Here's what Gisi wrote with his YouTube posting: "I figured if we're going to objectify women, we sure as heck better objectify men too!" Oh, and it DOES.

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    Damn you HBO and your clever marketing ploys. Everyone who's anyone knows that season 3 of Game of Thrones, pretty much the best show on television, is premiering on March 31. And we've said it countless times before, this one is gonna be the best one yet, based on the source material, A Storm of Swords. But when HBO debuted the poster for the third season, it was rather disappointing due to its simplicity. It kinda looked like something a middle school student could sketch.

    But then the tables, oh how they did turn. Never for a second should anyone doubt the geniuses behind this fantasy series. What was just a boring shadow of a dragon is being used in an amazingly epic way that might bring a tear to even the most cynical, misanthropic eye. It's pretty incredible.

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    Have you ever longed to see the cast of Downton Abbey perform a British boy band song? Boy, who HASN'T, right? Well, thanks to some insanely meticulous video editing, now you can enjoy all your favorite Downton characters (Mary, Matthew, Bates, Anna, Carson, Thomas, Lord Grantham, the Dowager Countess, EVERYONE. Even Sir Richard Carlisle!) "singing" One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful."

    I've seen video mashups before, but this one really goes above and beyond. I mean, I have absolutely no idea how someone goes about creating something like this. Is there special software that helps locate certain words? Is it MAGIC? At any rate, with the sole exception of swapping "the way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed" for "the way that you flip your hair gets me flabbergasted," every single lyric is included in the Downton version. You have to see this thing, even if you hate One Direction -- or Downton Abbey, for that matter.

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    Love him or hate him, Zach Galifianakis has come out with an entertaining and really weird pre-Oscar video featuring some extremely famous guests. He's got an Internet talk show, called "Between Two Ferns" on Funny or Die, and part 2 of his Oscars series just came out to much jubilation.

    On his show, he gets to interview an "average-looking redhead in a weird dress", aka Jessica Chastain, Sally Field, who admits she really hates pennies, "Daniel Day-Lewis," and the very lovely Bradley Cooper.

    From Zach asking if Zero Dark Thirty is about Chris Brown to wondering if Sally Field is Jewish since she hates pennies (Lincoln's on the penny, after all), this is five minutes of your life you'll be very happy you spent watching this video.

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    About a year ago I wrote a mother-in-law-nup (MIL-nup), so that one could comfortably hand their sweet boy over to some son-stealing Jezebel. Clearly, I'm still bitter, but it made me realize that there should be "nups" for lots of things.

    Like email and social networking. I'm not talking about the spammers who seem quite certain I have a small penis, I'm lonely, I could use Prozac and Cialis, and I should get said drugs from Canada.

    No, I can forgive the Internets, but what I cannot forgive is the annoying emails and Facebook requests from my supposed friends and family. You guys are on shaky ground, which is why I've written this "e-nup," and I say everyone signs!

    I hereby decree that:

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    This weekend, I literally saw the most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my life on the Internet. And that's saying a lot. Actually, full disclosure, I didn't even see this thing in its entirety. I had to stop the video, as I knew I'd never be able to unsee it, but I saw enough. You guys: A girl named Giovanna Plowman -- AKA "Tampon Girl" -- ate a dirty feminine hygiene product just so she could become YouTube famous. (That's the most euphemistic way I could possibly put it.)

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