Caldwell Tanner didn’t use HBO’s Join the Realm website to create these unique House Sigils. Instead, he came up with his own designs for what popular websites might hang from their proverbial castle walls if they lived in the world of Game of Thrones. And we decided to join in on the fun. Look at the House Sigils and mottos from Twitter, Wikipedia, The Mary Sue, and more!

Zoe Lofgren made sure that her name echoed loudly through the hallowed halls of the internet (did you know we have halls? Yeah, like tons of halls. Acres. With pillars and junk.) a year ago during the SOPA/PIPA debates in congress, by loudly opposing it, and even engaging in a Reddit AMA, hoping to drum up some attention to the pretty alarming powers the bill gave to rights holders and the pretty alarming requirements it made of internet service providers. While I won’t say she brought the issue to Reddit’s attention in the first place, her engagement with a large and influential internet community became part of a temporary internet revolution that culminated in Wikipedia, Tumblr, Reddit, Google, and a host of other websites going completely dark or otherwise completely devoting a day to raising awareness of the bill.

She has returned to Reddit recently, at the turn of the tide to perform a rather interesting experiment:

James Cameron doesn’t care what you think. It’s one of the many privileges of having made billions of dollars. But even mega movie tyrants can get sick of myths that float around the internet. Especially if they have to do with Titanic.

In response to the long-standing theory explored by a Reddit user that Jack could have easily fit onto that door with Rose (don’t pretend like you don’t know what we’re talking about), Cameron has gone on the record stating that it’s not a question of space, but a question of buoyancy.

And to think we spent the entire day working yesterday without realizing: Joss Whedon was simultaneously doing an Ask Me Anything post on Reddit, letting Redditors of all kinds ask him questions and answering most of them. With The Cabin in the Woods out this weekend, The Avengers in less than a month, Much Ado About Nothing and In Your Eyes also coming out this year, there’s no question of whether Whedon might be looking for a little publicity for his projects.

Just, as usual, where he finds the time to do any of this. We’ve presented our favorite bits of the AMA, now finished, below:

If you found yourself wondering what the name of the second general of the Dutch Revolution was, or if that was even real, and you ventured on over to Wikipedia to look it up, you probably noticed that the site looked different today. Different, as in blacked out. And then you may or may not have panicked, because now how would you satisfy you thirst for random trivia that is probably somewhere else on the internet, but your go-to site has shut itself down, and now your brain must find something else to do for the next — hey, someone mentioned you on Twitter. You should check that out.

Anyway, you most likely heard about this earlier in the week, when the site’s administrators announced that in protest of the highly controversial internet censorship bills SOPA and PIPA, they would “censor” their own site for 24 hours. But Wikipedia is not the only site protesting today. After the jump, find out who else has shut themselves down, and see what the internet will look like should these bills become law.

Last week we told you the story of an Iowan encyclopedia writer whose epic Reddit comment might just get turned into a big budget movie, after the concept behind the script he is developing with Madhouse Entertainment was picked up, before it has even been finished, by Warner Bros., who also claimed to have acquired the exclusive rights to the concept. Specifically, James Erwin’s story of whether a US Marine battalion could overthrow the Roman Empire if unexpectedly transported there during the rule of Caesar Augustus, Rome Sweet Rome.

But The Hollywood Reporter raises an interesting question: is it legally possible for Warner Bros. to nab the rights in the first place? Naturally, this question involves talking about Reddit’s terms of service.

One month ago, an innocently asked question by a frustrated fan of HBO’s Rome (Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus if I traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion or Marine Expeditionary Unit?) spawned a three part short story penned by James Erwin, an Iowan author of encyclopedias and two-time Jeopardy champion. A week later, he was getting calls from talent managers and agreed to develop his story into a screenplay with Madhouse Entertainment. Yesterday, Warner Bros. preemptively bought the rights to the putative screenplay.

Because a battalion of marines might not have the total advantage that you might think. Here’s an excerpt from Erwin’s story:

Pajiba also has a short teaser promo.

Let’s hop into our Way-Back Machines and think back to the days when we either taped something from TV or it was never, ever seen again. No DVR, no BitTorrent, not even YouTube, not even DVD. Good old VHS. Well, someone on Reddit was wondering if anyone had been able to record something in this format way back in the year 2000, the year Nickelodeon aired a movie called Cry Baby Lane about dead conjoined twins who were hacked apart by their father and buried separately (because one twin was evil), only to be raised from the dead during a séance. It got little help from Nickelodeon before it aired around Halloween that year, and after it aired, it received tons of complaints from parents about its content and was pretty much never heard of again. Basically, they chose to forget it ever happened at all. But guess what, Nick? The Internet happened.

Reddit user Skopak has never seen a Harry Potter movie. He has also never read the books. So when he saw the last movie, he was confused, so he created his own story in his head. And now, he has made himself available to take questions on Reddit. If you cried during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, you are in for an even more emotional (though more confusing) journey. Click through for the most insightful responses.