Welcome to the last day of August. This is Around the Creative World for your Monday, August 31st, 2009. I’m your host, Brian Laesch. I will now pause for station identification:

You’re listening to the Eleventh Hour: the world beyond recruiting blog. Number one in Marina Del Rey since 2008.

OK, we’re back…

• Disney has acquired Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion.
• Noww u cain support edumacation threw Sonic’s nu “Limeades for Learning” program. Itz 2 leight 4 me. Help this future.
• Speaking of education (seriously this time), according to AdAge: Wikipedia Goes Offline to Help Rural Students in Peru
• Fox and Twitter hopes you are ready for “tweet-peats” (encore presentations of shows with cast and crew members simultaneously “tweeting” about the show). Sell now, Twitter. I’m just sayin’…
• New random television spot from Old Spice and W+K Portland: Scents for Gents
• Captain Morgan: Converting heavy uncontrolled substance users to rum consumers?
• Could the LA fires cause a partial TV/radio blackout? According to Variety, the LA fires threaten broadcast transmission towers on Mt. Wilson.
• Final Destination 36…I mean, The Final Destination, topped the weekend box office.
• Did I mention that 11thr is on Twitter?
• Stan Schroeder of Mashable: The Internet About to Turn 40, Last Seen With a Blonde in a Red Corvette
• TechCrunch: Facebook still isn’t as good as the company it just bought (FriendFeed).

Brian Laesch is a blogger for Eleventh Hour and Social Media Manager for The Rundown.