Russell Crowe's reps issued a statement today to inform everyone that the actor is, you know, still alive. Why? Apparently New York radio station Z100 falsely reported his demise this morning. Just because you forgot him doesn't mean he's dead.

Mikey, a closeted 17-year-old Minnesota hockey player, was the author of a popular blog about being gay in the sports world. He was an inspiration to many. Sadly, he's now been outed as a 40-year-old. The blog's been shut down.

The Real History of John Dillinger and Henry Ford [Jalopnik]

Despite the signs posted around town today, In-N-Out is not headed to NYC this summer.

As its policy conference begins in Washington today, pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC called for a full settlement freeze, according to a fake press release.

How do we know Bill Cosby isn't dead? Just because he said so on his website? Either way, someone obviously didn't read our guide to "dead-ing" people using Twitter. Stupid amateurs.

Oh Ke$ha! The faux-drunken pop star with rotting Jack Daniels-teeth has released a new viral video in which she and her slinky friends change the famous Hollywood sign to say Ke$hawood. And people think it's real! It's clearly not.

Luis Carlos Montalván returned from the Iraq war and launched a media career — he's attending Columbia's J-School — based on a battle tale that made him a poster boy for PTSD. Now an AP reporter thinks he's a fraud.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has blown the lid off the mystery of prolific letter-to-the-editor writer "Ellie Light" : She's Barbara Brooks, a California nurse. Except now Brooks says it's really her husband, Winston Steward (pictured). These people are weird.

"The only thing worse than having to eat a bowl of piss-soaked Corn Flakes is not being able to use the footage."—Vice co-founder and Hipster of the Decade loser Gavin McInnes, via email. Hoax confirmed, allegedly? [Previously]

Balloon dad Richard Heene reports to jail today. He's still insisting the whole thing wasn't a hoax. Pitiful. Man up, Richard; you're the greatest sci-fi hoaxer since Orson Welles did War of the Worlds. You're just less popular. [CP]

Herman Rosenblat is the Holocaust survivor whose Oprah-endorsed story of meeting his wife while in a concentration camp turned out to be fake. When his publisher found out, they demanded their advance back. We've got the documents.

Andrew WK: he is an actual human, named Andrew Wilkes-Krier. But he is also a piece of performance art whose persona was in part designed by others. This seems to confuse a lot of people! Including Andrew, sorta?

The Copenhagen summit has brought the global warming debate to a head, and the skeptics have the upper hand because Al Gore made a math error, scientists wrote mean e-mails, icebergs won't destroy Australia, and it's snowing in Copenhagen.

This morning, an elaborate hoax briefly convinced the world that Canada was going to take the lead on carbon emissions reductions and financial aid to Africa. But... why?

Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of that cute vomiting boy who did not get lost in the air in a balloon, will plead guilty tomorrow to charges that they concocted the story in order to become famous, which happened.

This Glenn Beck tweet links to a blog that has misread a piece of obvious (and terrible) satire, penned by a right-wing talk radio producer. Just like he did last week. They don't even get the unfunny jokes they make themselves!

Whoops! Rush Limbaugh accidentally read, on-air, statements attributed to Barack Obama that Barack Obama never wrote. He must be super-embarrassed! Especially after he made a big deal out of people doing that with him last week.

Well look here, it's our friend Robert Thomas—ex-associate of Balloon Dad Richard Heene—all up on the Today Show this morning. Thomas on Heene: "The negatives outweigh the positives." It seems so! Click through for the entire interview.

The Chamber of Commerce held a press conference in DC today to declare that it's ending its longstanding, controversial opposition to climate-change regulations. No it didn't. [UPDATED with fun media clips below!]