​Two and a half months after the fact, Gawker's Adrian Chen has identified the guy who fooled Occupy Wall Street into thinking that Radiohead was going to play a free show at Zuccotti Park. It's this guy Malcolm Harris who writes for lit-mag The New Inquiry. He says he and his friends thought up the prank in order to get more people to go to Zuccotti Park, which at that point was still not at max capacity. Or something. It's all very odd.

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Artist's rendering of the prankster's weapon.

​The world of pranks can be split into two halves: The funny (e.g. fly-in-the-ice-cube gag) and the the unfunny (e.g. regicide). The Daily News has the story of a series of pranks that fall in the latter category. Since last year, Mamadou and Assetou Sy have had the police, fire department, or ambulatory services called to their Dyckman Houses apartment over 150 times. The mystery person has been sending emergency personnel to the couple's apartment so often, Assetou says, "Every time someone knocks on our door, we say it must be the police." To whoever keeps doing this to the Sys: Please stop.

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​It's important to watch your figure while under house arrest. Dominique Strauss-Kahn knows this, and so he's been having Lean Cuisines and Crystal Light delivered to 153 Franklin Street in TriBeCa. And also people have been trying to prank him, which is hilarious and we'd all like to see more of that, right?

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​Yesterday, the lonely dudes of 4chan enacted their plan to prank the lonely dudes of OkCupid. The trolls had set up fake OkCupid accounts depicting cute single women, with which they'd attempted to lure "forever alone" guys on the dating site to Times Square, where they would all collectively be stood up. The idea was to create an "involuntary flashmob" of confused nerds while the 4channers, who are really cool and socially well-adjusted people, would laugh at them.

Go-time was last night at 7:30! How did things play out?

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SteveCuozzo.com

​In yesterday's New York Post, columnist Steve Cuozzo continued his usual pattern of slamming the Department of Transportation, this time in reference to their plans for 34th Street, which he calls a "grand boulevard," like we live in Paris or something. He starts by describing the DOT's bike lanes as "detested" and argues that they have "merely forced cars to park far from the curb and turned streets into parking lots." Cuozzo then rails on and on against the "34th Street plaza" in his usual anti-bike, anti-DOT way, calling the whole thing an "ill-advised scheme." Streets Blog offers a point-by-point rebuttal to Cuozzo's writing, in which the "insanity is usually self-evident," but local blogger and cycling enthusiast Brian Van Nieuwenhoven took a more guerrilla anti-Cuozzo approach. He bought SteveCuozzo.com for 2 years and redirected it to the website for Transportation Alternatives, Cuozzo's sworn enemy.

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​Chris Hansen -- the host of NBC's infamous child sex scandal exploitation show To Catch A Predator -- was not arrested for child molestation. Yet "chris hansen arrested for child molestation" is a "volcanic"-level trending Google search, currently ranked in the top spot. How did this happen and what does 4Chan's kind deed from yesterday have to do with it?

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​What do Rupert Murdoch, a former Page Six gossip columnist, a guy who works at the News Corp commissary, and the founder of College Humor have in common? They were all part of what might be the greatest media prank of all time.

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