• Despite rumors and speculation, the Dick Clark who hosted New Year's Rockin' Eve was actually him, and not a photoshopped image. [TMZ]

• Now that Scarlett Johanson and Josh Hartnett are living together, their open relationshp, filled with orgys and threesomes, can continue to blossom. [Page Six]

• We don't which is more ridiculous — Tom Ford's temper tantrums, or a VF staffer calling Graydon Carter conservative. [Page Six]

• Brad Renfro hasn't been in a movie in like, 10 years, so his publicist had to think of something to get people talking. [E!]

• Canadians are so multi-talented. Avril Levigne is acting now, and she doesn't even have a famous sibling. [Egotastic]

• Google flipped its rivalry with Yahoo over the sizes of their search indexes into a marketing gimmick, asking users to guess how many billions of pages it's scoured.

• Meanwhile, Google is taking back its one-year blacklist of CNet after a News.com scribe used Google's own search engine to find out information about its execs. Finally they're getting the hang of this PR thing.

• Air America is scrounging for cash, begging listeners to help keep it afloat by donating cash and buying schwag. Embarrassingly, unlike NPR, Air America is a for-profit venture.

• By now, Katie Couric is used to being thrashed in the media, but that won't stop her from showing a little leg.

• Graydon Carter confirmed the widely acknowledged rumors that Tom Ford was brought on board to oversee Vanity Fair's next Hollywood photo spread.

• The average person spends nine hours each day consuming media .. and exactly 15 seconds forgetting about it.