Busty bombshell Christina Hendricks is the new face of staid outerwear brand London Fog. We think the lusty execs on Mad Men would approve of the campaign, even though we're thinking more about what's underneath than the raincoat itself.

Facebook abruptly removed ads for pot legalization group Just Say Now, saying the ads' marijuana leaves might encourage Facebook members to try toking. A social network founded on college campuses can't really think its users are strangers to pot.

Pepsi cola has already been revealed to be the pinnacle of the entire universe. But that has not resulted in Pepsi's "Max" chemical product beating Coke's similar chemical product in market share. Solution? War.

The cast of Katie Holmes rom-com The Romantics did a J. Crew ad campaign, and the result is an aneurysm of creamy cupcakes, tasteful khaki, and fresh-faced youth. Katie even exorcises a few Tom Cruise-related demons. Let's take a look.

According to its trailer, The Romantics is about tasteful white people getting married in a scenic white people place. (Maine?) Quoth J. Crew's synergistic The Romantics advertainment: "Friendships and alliances are tested and the love triangle comes to a head the night before the wedding, when the drunken friends frolic in the nearby surf and return to shore… without the groom." That sounds… macabre. (And kind of interesting? I hate it when I accidentally like something I meant to hate.)

To make a few extra bucks, movie star Nicole Kidman has done a sexy, sensual ad for... an as-yet-unbuilt shopping mall in Rio de Janeiro. The ad manages to make Rio look a little ugly and Kidman a lot selly-outy.

"It's the way they surround the story. With OTB results and ads for phone sex." This fake New York Post version of the New York Times' infernal, inescapable 'Weekender' ad does have its moments.

CBS's corporate advertainment show Undercover Boss was wildly successful at making propaganda palatable and, indeed, superficially desirable. Now, CBS is ordering up a companion series. But will it also help workers internalize a self-destructive dynamic? Oh you bet!

Here in America, product placement is an unstoppable commercial machine that will only continue to insert brand advertisements into ever more ridiculous niches. In Europe, though, they're awfully conflicted; they'll allow product placement, but only by making it awkward.

Apple is directly creating ads on the iPhone and imposing "tight control" over the creative process for its "iAds" platform, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. The control-freakery has already driven away Chanel and delayed other campaigns.

Spirit, the airline known for charging $45 for carry-on bags, has created the world's most brilliant Steven Slater spoof ad: a man, sliding down a chute, with beers. Nobel Prize for Advertising as well as Flight, to Spirit Airlines. [Consumerist]

Tasteful, muted architecture is actually illegal in Times Square. Explains a lot.

Worried that little Jimmy's been playing with his sister's dollies? Notice a certain limpness in Bobby's wrists? Well nip that problem in the bud by sending him to karate school. That'll cure Nanciness! So say these karate school ads, anyway.

In your evasive Thursday media column: the WSJ is becoming more like your little hometown paper, Mediaite doesn't justify itself to anyone, an alt-weekly judgment upheld, and Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck have a mystifying chat.

Advertisers and TV producers are sharpening their claws in anticipation of a new cash machine: Will sassy steward Steven Slater do endorsements? Which ones? A TV show? Great minds weigh in on how to exploit our new hero for profit.

A tipster in Midtown today spotted this moving ad for billionaire heiress/aspiring pop star Emma Lasry's hot new single, "Closet Bitch." We know you can afford a little more for graphic design, Emma. Come on now. Another pic below.

A group of Mormons has created an ad campaign apparently designed to convince Americans that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is not that weird and Mormons are kind of cool, sometimes. Want to see the ads?

Hooray, revenue! Twitter has just hired its first two sales executives, who will tout Twitter as a very engaging platform for users and, thus, advertisers. Trouble is it hasn't been a very engaging platform for the two executives in question.

The MTA has agreed to run these ugly ads opposing the Cordoba House (or, in the ad's words, "WTC Mega Mosque") on its buses. Luckily, there are no buses left in New York, thanks to the MTA's service cuts. [NYP]

Rock star adman Alex Bogusky abruptly retired from advertising this summer, saying he wanted to pursue other, more righteous initiatives. Has Burger King's greatest pitchman really had a change of heart? Or is his narcissistic personality disorder acting up again?