Congratulations to the Los Angeles Lakers for winning the 2009 NBA Championship last night. In honor of Phil Jackson’s 10th title (which I can personally celebrate, since three of them came with the Chicago Bulls), here are ten links that you will hopefully enjoy.

And in case you were wondering where you are: this blog is a personal extension of Eleventh Hour.

Who is Eleventh Hour?

A boutique agency specializing in the recruitment of skilled personnel. Find out more here.

Here are the links:

• Cannes Festival entries are down 20%. Attendance is down 40%.
• AdAge’s Henry Blodget says “Sorry, There’s No Way to Save the TV Business.”
• ‘The Hangover’ won it’s second consecutive weekend and I contributed to that. I may go see it again.
• Google competing with Geico? Not exactly…but they putting out strikingly-familar inanimate objects with “googly eyes” advertisements.
• Have you seen the “Hammer Pants Dance” yet?
• Facebook is already approaching 6 million custom usernames.
• Re-Inventor of the Wheel Looking for Investor Through TechCrunch (That’s my headline, at least.)
• Fidel Castro’s son was duped online by a Cuban blogger in exile who posed as a woman. (I guess this counts as being from the “Creative World.”)
• ‘Hunch‘ will make decisions for you. (Making manual decisions for yourself is so 2008.)
• ADWEEK posted a Q&A with David Lubars, chairman and CCO of BBDO North America and president of the Cannes Film and Press juries.

Brian Laesch wrote this blog while wearing one of those Phil Jackson Malcom X hats.