• Condé Nast Publications exists no more. The company will now be known simply as "Condé Nast," since the powers that be there have finally realized that people like to read stuff on the Internet every once in a while. [NYP]
• Bill O'Reilly invited Jon Stewart on his show this week. (Bold!) Unfortunately, all of Stewart's good jabs were edited out. (Not surprising!) [Gawker, NYT]
• Keith Olbermann is feuding with journalists and bloggers. Once again. [HP]
• Fashion mags struggled during the second half of '09: Sales of Vogue and Marie Claire fell by 15%, while Elle and Harper's Bazaar were flat. [NYM]
• Exits: Lifetime CEO Andrea Wong has been ousted from the network amid lackluster ratings. And the president of TV Guide Network is stepping down.
• Rumor has it Howard Stern may replace Simon Cowell on Idol. [P6, LAT]
• The cover of the new issue of SI has some people hot and bothered. [LAT]
• Magazines that tried cutting prices to boost sales? It didn't work. [AdAge]
• A rundown of the ads you can expect to see on Super Bowl Sunday. [ABC]
• Last Sunday's Grammy Awards boosted music sales this past week. [LAT]
• The Oscars are officially a month away. Mark your calendar. [The Wrap]

Skydivers are regular people, they put their speedsuits on one leg at a time. They look for ways to cut down on their morning routines like shaving during their rapid descent towards the ground.

Here's a hypnotic look at our dystopian "Augmented reality" future, in which our vision is at all times obscured by constantly-morphing hovering clouds of computer-generated brand logos. Helps you understand why your grandparents hate the internet. [via Adfreak]

If life is at its roughest and the whole world seems dark, a good, long cry could be in order. Exploit that common weakness and listen to strangers sobbing on this completely normal, totally not creepy, anonymous all crying hotline.

This must be seen to be believed, this latest inept volley from would-be California Senator Carly Fiorina. It is her attack ad against fellow Silicon Valley Republican person Tom Campbell, apparently assembled by the production team from Saturday Night Live.

Douchebag Advertising genius Donny Deutsch says it didn't "make sense" for Mancrunch.com to try to buy a Super Bowl ad, because, come on, how many gays would be watching football? Eh? Castigat ridendo mores, Donny Deutsch. [Agency Spy]

Scotland: "The home of the bagpipe and penicillin." Well how can you not invest there? Then again, France is the home of organum and aspirin. Tough choices. Provocative ad, in any case. [Copyranter]

This ad may be a tad unbelievably sexist, given the prolonged, gratuitous shot of a girl's cleavage, but when it comes to the matter of protecting one's country, all bets are off.

Tragically, travel accommodations for kitty businessmen have always been sorely lacking... until now! With the continuing wonders of Japanese culture, feline professionals have their own hotel and transit consultants to cater to their every wish and whisker.

The delicate balance is restored. Who wants to live in a world where Taco Bell is telling us they can make us skinny?

Who doesn't hate getting a ticket? Who doesn't love happy looking dogs? In this super cool world man and animal form the perfect symbiotic relationship and everyone wins.

CBS is still undecided on whether or not to air a gay-themed commercial during the upcoming Super Bowl. The spot, from the dating/networking site ManCrunch, shows two fans who get more than friendly when both simultaneously grab for the chips.

To give you an idea how unimaginative American Apparel's latest dubious entreaty for amateur assvertising is, I already had a photo called "AAbutt" saved on my laptop. Anyhow. You could win a grab bag, so enter! Click to enlarge.

The internet is basically a place where you get free cat pictures in exchange for shadowy Big Brother-style ad conglomerates harvesting every bit of data about you and using it to psychologically manipulate you into rampant consumerism. Now, with disclosure!

Today in our occasional series of Reporters Gamely Trying to Do Other Things and Failing Miserably, For Journalism: Ad Age's Larry Dobrow tried out for a TV pitchman job. Good enthusiasm! Just makes you miss Billy Mays that much more.

Those really annoying trucks that drive around, clog up city streets, and serve no other purpose than to expose you to some dumb ad? They're getting an upgrade. Taking a cue from those horrific RVs that Lubavitch Jews use to proselytize with, the "mobile billboards" will soon blast music as they drive around town.

Spain is close to banning TV ads for "slimming products" and plastic surgery before 10 p.m.—which would make them even more restricted than alcohol ads. Even though alcohol makes you fat and surgery makes you pretty? Savages. [Ad Age]

Gary the mattress salesman hasn't met a racial stereotype that he isn't willing to exploit, and does an amazingly thorough job of offending just about everybody in this 45-second commercial.

It's only been a couple of weeks since the TSA announced plans to install 300 full-body scanners at airports around the country. Which is more than enough time for an ad agency to figure out a way to exploit the subject and suggest in a new ad campaign that women will now need to pay more attention to the lingerie they wear. [Copyranter]