Do a million great ads offset a crappy product? Not quite.

Trying to convince their clients that "everything ages fast," Brazilian ad agency Moma mocked up some hilarious vintage 1960s-style ads for Facebook, YouTube, and Skype. (Including charmingly broken Brazilian English.) Yes, there's even a Keyboard Cat cameo.

The makers of Pretzel Chips have apologized and replaced their ads at NYC bus shelters that read, "You can never be too thin." Apparently some people think thinness shouldn't be encouraged. We agree. Pass the chips. [NYCtheBlog]

In your scraggly Thursday media column: CNN is proud of odd things, the Glenn Beck boycott is a failure, a lawsuit against Interview magazine, and Moe Tkacik takes DC.

Vice long ago morphed from a magazine about dirty hipster shit into a Corporation, which sells Cool. The fact that Vice is often referred to as "hip" is a dead giveaway of its clients lackluster levels of coolness.

In the last three years, the ranks of the American obese have grown by 2.4 million people. This, despite greater access to magical butt-toning shoes than ever before. If only there were another corporate behemoth to motivate us, technomagically?

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.

The American Apparel ad spoofer has returned! (It's still nonexistent, though).

Great human genius Justin Timberlake can do it all: dance, sing into an Autotune apparatus, and now, direct a commercial for his very own tequila brand. "I'm cool. I'm cool. I am cool," thought Justin, while directing the following commercial.

Though we would all like to think that saturation-style ad campaigns which blanket the media to the point that they begin to annoy even casual viewers would not lead to business success, alas, sometimes they do. Old Spice man. Yes.

A wealthy scion of an American dynasty is using his media knowledge and Hollywood connections to lobby power players to insert subtle liberal messages into movies and TV shows by manipulating their storylines. This is not propaganda, apparently.

This new ad could appear on one million blogs, and each would carry the same headline. We believe this ad was created simply to facilitate this headline. Why else? Anyhow. Scotch tape: for oral sex. [Copyranter]

This ad is meant to hypnotize you into purchasing Maynard Wine Chews. The only thing I want to buy after watching this is a gun to shoot that moose.

In the U.S., Pabst Blue Ribbon (or PBR) is a cheap, unpretentious beer popular among hipsters. In China, it's "Blue Ribbon 1844," costs about $44 a bottle, and is called a "world-famous spirit." It also comes in a funny bottle.

September issues are absolutely the thing for fashion magazines—a few short years ago, they were all competing to see whose issue could outweigh a watermelon. The last couple of years? Not so great. This year? Well...better, at least.

Vaseline got in serious PR trouble last week over their skin-whitening Facebook app. But hey, check out this Indonesian ad for their Skinwhite™ lotion. Take a moment to let it sink in. Wow, that's racist. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge.]

Incredibly vain parents are actually buying Huggies horrible denim diapers, so much so the brand regained the market share they recently lost to Pampers. This can only mean one thing: diaper war.

NBC and CBS are refusing to air this anti-Ground Zero mosque ad from the National Republican Trust PAC. Good call, since the ad is vulgar, racist, fearmongering garbage; a nauseating embarrassment that should be burned 50 times over. Enjoy!

As we bemoan advertising's ongoing death of euphemism, we must also ask ourselves which is worse: an ad which coarsely references vagina-shaving; or today's ad, which pretends to reference vagina-shaving, then pulls a switcheroo? Pander to us better, please. [Adfreak]

America's Cafeteria, McDonald's, is making obscene amounts of money selling its McCafé coffee simulacrum, and has plans to make even more obscene amounts on its new beverages. But first McDonald's must demystify this odd product, the "smoothie."