
New words for Merriam-Webster, five weddings for five siblings in one day, and 104-year-old climbs Mt. Hood.
Pop stars reign supreme in Forbes magazine’s list of social networking superstars. Rihanna tops the list with 23.8 million Twitter followers and 59.6 million Facebook fans, followed by Lady Gaga, Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry.
Also, in China, an angry grandmother has found a new way to deal with fast traffic. She dressed an inflatable doll in lacy lingerie and tied it to a tree near the crosswalk, telling the UK’s Daily Mirror that she hoped drivers would slow down if she “could give them something worth looking at.”
And on its third full day on Mars, the Curiosity Rover has sent back the first 360-degree color pictures of the Red Planet.
17-year-old Austin Wierschke won the U.S. National Texting Championship held in Times Square yesterday, after out-texting his competitiors for a second year in a row. In addition, Wierschke won $50,000 and will go on to compete in the upcoming global texting championship.
Also – a $145.49 hot dog hits Sacramento, California and makes it in the Guinness Book of World Records for most expensive hot dog ever. The 18-inch beef frank is topped with Swedish moose cheese, Italian white truffle butter, french mustard, garlic-herb mayonnaise, smoked maple bacon from New Hampshire and local balsamic vinaigrette.
A passenger on an Alaska Airlines flight looked out the window of a plane and saw what looked like a damaged area on the wing with a handwritten note saying, "We know about this."
The story sparked a huge backlash on Twitter and American Airlines apologized, explaining that a maintenance technician wrote the note to let the flight crew know that it was an approved "trim repair" to the wing.
The airline has stressed that the plane was safe and there was nothing to worry about, but conceded that the note was "not appropriate and did not follow company procedures."
Also trending this morning, video of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton caught on camera dancing during her trip to Johannesburg, South Africa.
During NASA's Curiosity rover's landing on Mars, the internet went wild over the rocket scientist in mission control with a mohawk. The scientist gained 20,000 twitter followers overnight and now has his own Tumblr page dedicated to him.
CNN's John Zarella was able to track "mohawk guy" Bobak Ferdoski down and found out that the 32-year-old changes his hairstyle for every mission and has a masters degree in aeronautical engineering from MIT.
Also trending this morning, the NFL will have a female referee for the first time in history while regular NFL officials are locked out by the league.
Shannon Eastin, who has spent time officiating high school and college games, will be part of the replacement crew officiating Thursday's Packers-Chargers game.
Finally, an adorable little girl named Camrynn is being called the cutest NFL fan ever after she told Arizona linebacker Sam Acho that she loved him when she got the chance to meet him at training camp.
Trending this morning, Nadya "Octomom" Suleman has put herself up for auction on the website whatsyourprice.com, where users bid on dates with other users. Bidding for a date with Suleman starts at $500.
Also popular, images from inside NASA's mission control during last night's rover landing.
Several embarrassing, yet funny posts were sent out last night after someone hacked the official Facebook pages for several Major League Baseball teams. The MLB warned fans about the inappropriate material and said it was working with the social network to identify the hackers.
Also trending, the infamous "tan mom" who was charged with child endangerment for allegedly letting her 5-year-old daughter use a tanning bed has gone au naturel. Patricia Krentcil sat down with Touch Magazine to show off her natural glow, although she wouldn't commit to giving up on tanning permanently.
Finally, Gawker's log of actor Samuel L. Jackson's hilarious live tweets about the Olympics.
London mayor dangling in zipline fail, teddy bear drop calls for "free speech" & "50 Shades" outsells Harry Potter in UK.
Crop circles appear in wheat field, the fabulous nails of Olympics and Snoop Dogg now wants to be called Snoop Lion.
Brett Favre back on field as asst. high school coach and LL Cool J plays cardboard Whack-A-Mole at a summer camp.

