What's worse than making a 9/11-themed ad? Making a 9/11-themed video!

September 11 as an advertising theme: it is not a good idea. It's really not. Even if you have a good cause. This ad is for the World Wildlife Fund, though! No. Do not do this, in ads. [Adfreak] UPDATED:

A man who wanted to be on Paris Hilton's "best-friend" reality show has been arrested after sending in pictures of children in sexual positions, some "masochistic," as part of his application. And justice finds another asshole sicko. Hooray! [Houston Press]

It's official: MTV is going ahead with that horrible and unnecessary Teen Wolf series.

Listen up, aspiring actors and musicians! On August 28th, you can forget the fact you're waiting tables and you don't have an agent and delude yourself into thinking you're a star! A company called EL-Nightlife is holding an event called "A Walk Down the Red Carpet." If you've ever wanted to "feel and look like a celebrity for the night," you'll be thrilled to hear that EL-Nightlife is now making it happen. Because "anyone can purchase tickets for $40 and elevate them selves [sic] to super-star [sic] status." Details on this exciting event, the absurd press release, and some background on the illustrious founder of EL-Nightlife, Grigorij "Greg" Richters, after the jump.

Yesterday we pointed out that a fella named Justin Massler had sent an apparently insane horse-themed letter to the New York Observer. Now Justin is acting even more apparently insane. We think it's just bad performance art!

NYC Prep'sSebastian Oppenheim laughs while his friend Gabriel Aiello puts on a Hitler hat and mustache. What would Rags McTattershanty say?! Also, swastikas. Hilarious.

Lots of people are looking to save a few bucks these days. One thing you probably should not do as you search for ways to trim your budget: Attempt to perform plastic surgery on yourself at home.

The U.S. government has released the results of a new study that found dramatic increases in teen pregnancy, as well as instances of various sexually transmitted diseases, during the latter years of George W. Bush's presidency.

Burger King is constantly getting tons of free publicity for its outrageous offensive (and wacky!) ads, which it sometimes apologizes for afterward. Could this be a purposeful strategy? Of course! But now they're fucking with the goddess Lakshmi. Bad move.

The spots did not come from Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Microsoft's edgy ad agency of record. Instead, they were from an agency called Bradley & Montgomery. And they were directed by Bobcat Goldthwait. Who said earlier this month:

The hot new idea among people who think about "journalism," and the sanctity thereof: let's ban linking, on the internet! Let's also ban wheels, in order to save the horse industry. Let's also ban talking about things!

On the one hand, Alex Jones is a (terribly entertaining) unhinged conspiracy theorist who rants about the New World Order and FEMA Concentration Camps and produces crazy movies about how 9/11 was an inside job and how Barack Obama is basically Hitler. All of this is well and good for a late-night radio talk show host! But for an elected member of the House of Representatives to appear on his show might strike some people as a sort of implicit endorsement of his more outre beliefs.

Please don't insist on having your dogs attend your wedding. Don't dress them up in special outfits, or make them play the role of ringbearer. Don't require they sit for wedding photos. Or send them for pre-wedding beauty treatments. Your guests may smile politely and tell you what a cute idea it is. These are the same people who will be laughing at you for weeks to come. (Unless, that is, the person is blind and it's a seeing-eye dog we're talking about, in which case ignore what you just read.) Next thing you know people are going to start holding bar mitzvahs for their canines or something. Oh, right. Too late. [NYDN]

The failing San Francisco Chronicle has started—in the midst of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression—a blog by two idly rich guys. Topic: "What's it like to be rich?" Lots of dodging pitchforks, I imagine.

Here it is, at long last, the idea that will save print and the newspaper industry as a whole! It's deceptively simple! And the chances of it backfiring horribly are...even or better!

Ever feel like Twitter is just too, well, free? A new company allows you to pay for select tweets. To prove this is a terrible idea, fallen loudmouth banker Tim Sykes has jumped on board.

Well well. If you didn't get enough of Scarlett Johansson's ruinous crooning with her thoroughly unnecessary vanity album of Tom Waits covers, it is your lucky year: she is putting out a musical album, again!

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a bankrupt paper run by a greedy Republican flack. They're going to save themselves by hiring America's most unpopular and/ or idiotic Republicans as columnists:

Swine flu panic is just a week old and like most Americans you probably have only one thing on your mind: how can I make some sweet fast cash off this thing? Enter guerrilla marketing.