CELEBRITY BUZZ – LifeStyles Condoms has offered Miley Cyrus 1 million dollars and a lifetime supply of condoms to be their spokesperson. Unfortunately for LifeStyles, Miley has promised to save herself until marriage. Still, there may be hope because we all know how that turns out.

The Best Links:

1. “Miley Sought for Safe-Sex Ed”
2. But We’ll Never Have Sex Again
3. “Could Miley Cyrus Appear On Your Next Condom?”

MUSIC BUZZ – His hit song, “Forever” — which includes the old Doublemint tagline “Double your pleasure, double your fun” — is not, as it turns out, a cute pop culture reference. It’s an advertising scheme hatched by Wrigley’s, announced after the song became a hit. Well played, you greedy monsters. Now does anybody have any gum?

The Best Links:

1. Chris Brown’s Wrigley Doublemint Commercial
2. So Was “Baby Got Back” a Commercial for Chili’s?
3. Chew on This
4. “Forever”
5. “Every Time You Chew Doublemint, a Pop Artist Gets Wings and Tom Waits is Stabbed With a Fiery Pencil Right in His Bellybutton. “
6. It’s Hard to Begrudge a Greedy Gum Hocker This Cute

BUSINESS BUZZ – Online coupon sites thrive as the economy declines. Companies like to offer coupons in slow economic times because consumers are looking for bargains and are less “brand loyal”. I don’t know about you, but I am shocked and offended that anyone would question my brand loyalty - even in the toughest economic times I insist on only smoking Newports.

The Best Links:

1. Online Coupons Bring New Life To Venerable Form (NYT)
2. Print Coupons At Coupons.com (Warning: Does Not Work For Mac Users)
3. CouponWinner.com - Lots and Lots of Coupons
4. Wow Coupons - Lots Of Food Discounts
5. New “Brandcaster” Service Shows Consumers Online Coupons Related to Content On the Web

BUSINESS BUZZ – Soda makers are trying out new forms of viral marketing. Jones Soda is having a contest to place a LOLcat on its label; Dr. Pepper says it will give everyone in America a free can if Axl Rose releases Chinese Democracy sometime in 2008.

The Best Links:

1. The I Can Haz Cheezburger/Jones Soda Contest
2. Unanswered: Why Does Dr. Pepper Care So Much?
3. No Soda for Slash, Buckethead, However
4. We Demand Democracy Now!
5. Axl Swears He Has No Idea if This is Some Marketing Ploy
6. LOLsoda!