In your bursting Wednesday media column: Conde's hot young tech guy is the second coming, the future of the Conde Nast cafeteria considered, Dennis Publishing's burnout analyzed, News Corp's Rangers bid denied, and Time magazine's cover heavily touted.

In this parody, SportsNation ponders what demographic advertisers are really targeting when they hire pro athletes like Favre to star in their commercials. Also, Michelle Beadle and Colin Cowherd discuss the impact of Favre's "retirement" on the Wrangler brand.

Your personal data is making Facebook insanely rich, and the social network would like you to know that: Facebook executives just told Bloomberg the company's advertising sales are exploding and that they plan to go on a big buying spree.

For 12 years, Henrietta Leung drew a $200,000 annual salary at HSBC and Credit Suisse. Laid off during the recession, she's currently exploring a new career path: exposing herself in softly lit photographs. She enjoys it greatly.

Making money in online media is tough. So we wish success to all most who try. However! This sweet and friendly Dan Lyons profile of PR man Dan Abrams calls for some gentle clarification.

After a report on The Jersey Shore's impact on business in Seaside Heights, the topic shifted towards Snooki's arrest and bike fall. Rosanna Scotto attempted to move on with the program, but not before one last look at Snooki's fall.

Today is Barack Obama's 49th birthday! Yesterday he told reporters that he's gotten a lot more gray hair in the past year. For his birthday, we decided to put together a photo comparison for him. Sweet of us, no?

Gawker.TV Trivia, a daily question & answer game that tests your knowledge of television—past and present. Do you think that you've got it? Check out the answer to today's question, inside.

Some raw footage has leaked of Katie Couric practicing an introductory segment on Sarah Palin in 2008, during which Couric says about Palin's kids, "Where the hell do they get these names?" Scandal! Lamestream media!

Conde Nast yesterday announced its plans to move its headquarters from Times Square to the new and improved World Trade Center. And today all you hear is Conde employees complaining about it. Are their complaints well-founded? Or are they yellow?

Execs at Discovery Communications, the media conglomerate fronting the money for Oprah Winfrey's upcoming OWN network, said they budgeted $100 million to launch it, but that still won't be enough. And yet for Oprah $100 million is like pocket change!

I'm no "LEED certified environmental consultant" or "person with a grasp of basic science," but it seems to me that brewing coffee one cup at a time via disposable plastic "K-cups" is a mite wasteful. Well, that's just "consumer perception."

It's unclear why, but this taxi jumped the curb and crashed through the scaffolding in front of the TD Bank at the corner of 21st and Park this morning. We're glad we took the subway! More inside.

Katy Perry pontificates on Google Alert addictions. Laurence Fishburne isn't speaking to his porn star daughter. George Clooney's girlfriend knows you're jealous of her, and she will rub her happiness in your face. Wednesday gossip indulges bad habits.

Barnes & Noble is putting itself up for sale! Remember when everyone thought B&N would become the Wal-Mart of book selling, an indomitable corporate force controlling the literary world? Boy how wrong that was, huh?

[Justin Timberlake does his best Midnight Cowboy impersonation while filming a scene for Gawker's new favorite movie Friends with Benefits in New York. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

New York Post sex columnist Andrea Peyser is doing her very best to win "Most Hysterical Anti-'Ground Zero Mosque' Column of the Day." Did it contain the word "perverted?" Check. "Erect?" Check. "Ball gag?" Check. Andrea, you win!

She was seen taking medication for the STI at a nightclub, even though she's underage. This actress got knocked up with her producer's baby, and this rich man (gasp!) takes out his own trash. Quel scandale!

Lawrence Salander, the former prominent Manhattan art dealer arrested last year for stealing more than $100 million from his clients, has been sentenced to 6 to 18 years in prison. He ripped off John McEnroe, Robert Deniro, and many others.

The Taiwanese company that's made a niche for itself animating some current news stories has put out one that examines Lindsay Lohan's life and struggles. Never ones to let facts hold them back, this one also includes a shower scene.