We debunked that viral video of the Shell Oil party disaster yesterday, and speculated it was a particularly elaborate Yes Men hoax. It was. Here's their video revealing how they did it and why.

Looks like Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are pulling a sort of Joaquin Phoenix I'm Not There thing, but with way more Smartwater. The couple are currently working on a short film parodying Aniston's life, rife with frenzied paparazzi, hushed will she or won't she baby rumors, and all the general "tabloid interest in Jennifer's life." Que cinematique!

NPR announced today that Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, will be retiring as hosts of the popular weekly call-in show Car Talk.

Back in 1997, a grocery clerk in Oregon listed a classified ad in a survivalist magazine that read:

Is Miley Cyrus poking fun at her wrist-cutting rumors?

Actor Brian Presley, whose alleged attempt to hit on model and seatmate Melissa Stetten during a recent flight from LA to New York was live-tweeted by the latter and has since gone viral, posted a Facebook message last night denying Stetten's version of events.

A Montreal police official has confirmed that LA detectives are probing a potential link between the gruesome "Body Parts Murder" that took place in Montreal last month and the unsolved murder of Hervey Medellin — a gay flight attendant whose head, hands, and feet were found near the Hollywood sign in January.

A McDonald's restaurant in Tampa apparently had so many health code violations it initially barred a state health inspector from entering the kitchen.

A hazmet team was called in to dispose of a mobile meth lab set up inside the loss prevention office of a south St. Louis County Walmart by a woman detained for shoplifting.

A member of the influential Imperial Irrigation District of California's Imperial Valley is under investigation for child abuse following the emergence of disturbing footage showing a man identified as Division 5 director Anthony Sanchez repeatedly striking his stepson with a belt for not being able to catch a baseball.

Fish and Game officials in California's Nevada County were alerted by passers-by to a man allegedly attempting to unload a pair of bear cubs at a local gas station in North San Juan Wednesday afternoon.

The dream of the nineties is alive in Tokyo, according to The Washington Post. Apparently people over there still use fax machines. And not just for sending…what documents do you send via a fax machine, anyway? Whatever, they use them for sending absolutely every kind of document.

Stephen Colbert doesn't trust the New York Times, and hasn't for a while. On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen explained their latest offense: attacking Mitt Romney for nothing more than the size of one of his homes and the massive renovation that he has undertaken there.

The next time you get caught doing something you shouldn't (stealing food off a friend's plate, coveting thy neighbor's wife, etc.) one way you could try to get out of it is by opening your eyes really wide and yelling "Oh, what, what time is it, where am I, oh, man, I was asleep, bro, I was fast asleep and I just woke up and found myself here doing something I shouldn't – what happened?"

In New York, you may not be able to drink large quantities of soda but, if Governor Cuomo's new proposed marijuana decriminalization becomes law, you will be able to carry around an ounce of weed without it being a misdemeanor. On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart had a little trouble reconciling these two ideas.

Know what the Weather Warlocks over at The National Weather Service were doing while you were taking a two-hour outdoor "working lunch" Thursday? They were issuing an El Niño watch.

This Sunday, Oprah is sitting down on a giant couch with Michael Jackson's daughter Paris to have a chat about (Oprah air-quotes) "normal" childhoods, coping with the death of a parent, and other very Oprah topics.

Canadian folk hero Ryan Gosling returned home to his ancestral land Wednesday to attend the graduation of his mother, Donna, from Brock University. He brought Eva Mendes. Canada freaked out.

Today the National Republican Congressional Committee invited anyone on the internet to sign a petition to repeal Obamacare, then livestreamed a printer as it printed out the personalized petitions, one-by-one. The most logical thing in the world happened next: People trolled the shit out of it.

One of my favorite things that Malcolm X ever did was admit that he was wrong. His hajj to Mecca expanded his worldview and in an epiphanic letter home, he advocated his new-found belief in racial unity, explaining, "on this pilgrimage, what I have seen, and experienced, has forced me to rearrange much of my thought-patterns previously held, and to toss aside some of my previous conclusions."