I thought the planking meme was dead, dead, dead. DEAD. But this pastor—most probably a friend of the couple—thought it needed a wedding planker to be truly dead. OK, Mr. Pastor sir, you win. We now can officially declare planking dead. Like, Mr. Trololo (RIP) dead. [Funnyur]

A storm more violent than anti-SOPA rage is sweeping across the otherwise serene plains of the internet. Families are turning against fathers, mothers against children, flocks against shepherds: is this advanced, non-Euclidian planking, or just something else entirely?

Planking? So earlier this year! Anyone can lie down on something. I do it every night on my bed. And I'm unconscious the whole time. But stocking—recreating the bizarre, hilarious world of stock photos—takes serious talent.

Months after the Facebook craze caught on, Hugh Hefner and his playmates tweeted planking photos from Playboy's mansion—after a rousing game of Uno, apparently. Check out Hef's plank for a scary glimpse of his future. [@HughHefner via AllThingsD]

It was chaos outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre Wednesday night . A documentary about the Electric Daisy Carnival rave was ready for its world debut when a star in the film, DJ Kaskade, tweeted "Today(at)6pm in Hollywood (at)Mann's Chinese Theatre. ME+BIG SPEAKERS+MUSIC(equals)BLOCK PARTY!!! RT!"

Greetings from sunny Los Angeles, California, where the two-day closure of a 10-mile strip of freeway has produced more death, carnage and abject misery than humankind has ever seen, or will likely ever see again. Just kidding! The non-event known as Carmageddon has resulted in an almost surreally quiet weekend in the…

Planking, the fad in which people take pictures of themselves lying face down and upload them to the internet, is not racist. It's just stupid. But bloggers and Twitter users are in an uproar over what they say is planking's origins in the slave trade.

Apple's got quite the reputation as being a tough employer, so once they catch wind of employees planking on the job, will they follow Woolworths in giving them the sack? I mean, that's a precious MacBook Pro he's planking on!

An Australian man plunged to his death today, with officials saying the fall was due to a new Facebook phenomenon called planking. Planking, or strategically lying on peculiar things and snapping a picture of it, suddenly seems less fun.