A Sicilian advertising agency rolled out 18-foot posters of Hitler in pink uniform across the capital city, Palermo, to promote a teen clothing line with the slogan: "Change Style—Don't Follow Your Leader." Some people are quite angry. [Telegraph]

Facebook's privacy policy says they can provide "any of the non-personally identifiable attributes we have collected" to advertisers. But a new report shows that they actually sent data that can easily be tied to your name.

We invite you to gaze upon these dozen classic advertisements for jobs that long ago disappeared, mostly. (Not included: Journalist). Pine for the days of abundant taxidermy and banjo careers!

Finally, the magazine industry has switched from its befuddling "Read magazines to see a nice Michael Phelps photo" ads to these hack-y "Use magazine names in a ransom note" ad. Success is just around the corner. [Copyranter. Click to enlarge.]

Ever since the Wall Street Journal debuted "Greater New York" on April 26 and sparked a good old newspaper war with the New York Times, media watchers have been giddily blogging and tweeting out photos of various ads the paper has been plastering all over town to promote its new metro section.

In your competitive Tuesday media column: the fashion mag ad race is heated, GQ manages to sell electric doo-dads to people somehow, Michael Wolff's beef parade marches on, and the NYT rocked by "getting a good political story" scandal.

You see a cool YouTube video of people running on water. It's called "liquid mountaineering," and you share it on Facebook and Twitter. Then you find out it was a viral marketing campaign. And you feel like a tool.

We're not sure if this is The Most Annoying Billboard Ever Erected, but it does prove one thing: You, the consumer, will never tire of animatronic fish singing catchy songs in an effort to sell you something. Never. [Copyranter]

In your uproarious Thursday media column: Gerald Posner lawyers up, your favorite comic strip goes dark, a reporter's ready to run against John McCain, the internet gets more ad money, and something wacky is going on at Elle.

Jes Sachse is a 25 year-old Canadian model and artist who has Freeman-Sheldon syndrome, a genetic disorder that's left her with a curved spine, uneven legs, and a partially paralyzed hand. She's also the best fake American Apparel model ever.

Amour, a Canadian porno television network, is running a slew of promo ads showing, haha, dumb porno girls being dumb. 1. Since when does porn need ads? 2. Sexist much? 3. What's wrong with you, Canada? You've changed. [via Adfreak]

In your merry Monday media column: Happy birthday to the Huffington Post, Time Inc's magical advertising salesmanship, working for Felix Dennis is always a party, and the biggest dope ever on television, revealed!

Psychedelic abstractions and bubbly fantasies from 7UP's early 1970s "See the Light" ad campaign make one wonder just what was in the so-called "Uncola".

It was nice of Phantom Fireworks to release video of Faisal Shahzad buying fireworks at their Pennsylvania store. But it does strike us as a little unseemly to have stamped a huge watermark on the video with their cartoon logo.

Do you love to have your boobs almost hanging out, but not at work? Why not buy this product, "Cami Secret?" It's basically a napkin you put under your sweater to cover your boobs. What next, flying cars? [Adrants]

Interesting little factoid: a new study finds that 99% of the creative directors behind this year's Super Bowl ads were white. Makes sense. Who else loves milk, Betty White, and Tim Tebow? [Ad Age]

"Fuck the brands that are fucking the people," declares this trade magazine ad for American Apparel, a company run by Dov Charney, who is literally fucking the people. [Copyranter at AnimalNY. Click to enlarge.]

We've collected some of our favorite and most memorable Apple ads from the last three decades, so take a trip down memory lane with us as we go through Apple's most iconic TV spots.

Right now the New York Times website features an ad for the new Queen Latifah movie Just Wright next to a story about country music star Chely Wright coming out of the closet in this week's issue of People. Oh, the irony! A screenshot is below:

Nutripro diet dog food puts things in terms that you pet-coddling, Snausage-tossing, pooch-fattening, smothering-with-love fat dog owners can understand: Your fat dog isn't fucking. And that's wrong. [Via Adfreak. Click to enlarge]