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Welcome back to Around the Creative World. The number one series of blog posts on the internet. I hope you enjoyed your weekend.

Just as HoopsHype.com compiles interesting NBA stories from various media outlets around the country, or The Drudge Report aggregates interesting news stories, I compile these links from around the advertising, marketing, media, entertainment and internet worlds. Except, not on as large of a scale, and I don’t specialize in unsubstantiated NBA trade rumors, or have a political slant. But besides that, this blog is exactly the same as those sites.

• There are two new inventions that I’ve seen commercials for.  I can’t see them selling a lot, but they amuse me: The Potty Patch and The TreadDesk
• A yeti reminds you that if you get stranded in New Zealand while exploring, he can’t help you, because he doesn’t exist.
• Do you need a USB-powered chainsaw?  No, it’s not real, but it somehow is supposed to remind people about the environment.  I think I would just laugh at the fake ad and move on, but hey, what do I know?  I’m just a really smart guy.
• You’ve probably seen this but Michael Phelps is back in some Subway ads.  That was probably enough time.  (Based on the David Letterman-Kobe Bryant endorsement recovery time scale.)
• Want to relive the Apollo 11 moon landing?  Sure, we all do!  A  new website, We Choose the Moon, will let you do just that (kind of), in “real time.”
• Here’s a cool Michael Jackson tribute…but it will eventually drive you just as nuts as the media coverage: Eternal Moonwalk.
• A new Nike commercial features St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson, snowboarders, and cool t-shirt guns that I wish existed.  Chaos.
• Eleventh Hour is on Twitter.  You know, the social networking tool that the mainstream media has had a boner over?
• Microsoft realizes that Google Apps is a threat, and the next version of Microsoft Office will include a free, online apps component.  Un-bee-reev-able.  (What I imagine would be Kim Jong-il’s response.)
• Amazon may acquire Netflix.  I like this idea just a little bit better than the Time Warner-AOL merger.

Brian Laesch wrote this blog for Eleventh Hour.