Yep, it’s the bananaphone. It’s no baloney, that’s for sure. And now that it’s annoyingly stuck in your head for the rest of the day, here’s what it’s going to do to you.

Mexico has an airforce?

“It’s midnight. I’m standing in the kitchen of my temporarily-rented apartment, clad in nothing but my underpants. I’m watching the Chicago DVD on my 17in Powerbook, and repeatedly lifting a kitchen chair above my head for exercise.

If you want, you can touch me; some of the glamour might rub off on you.”

“The singles below are real people with real issues. Some are overweight. Others are crippled by debt. Quite a few live with their parents. But they all have one thing in common: They are available. And they’ve put themselves out there with the hope of finding someone willing to accept them at face value. So, please, scan their profiles. You may not get exactly what you want, but at least you know exactly what you’re getting.”

Dana Robinson is the ex-girlfriend of one of my daily reads, Andre Torrez. She’s got a personal weblog where she posts the unedited version of her personal ad. It’s much funnier in her words.

This is just about the geekiest thing ever. And I love it. Even I could get into a game like this.

Yep, that’s Donald Rumsfeld shaking the hand of Saddam Hussein in this photo dated December 20, 1983. The National Security Archive at George Washington University has published a series of declassified documents detailing U.S. support for Saddam Hussein in the early 1980’s.

The documents show that during this period of renewed U.S. support for Saddam, he had invaded his neighbor (Iran), had long-range nuclear aspirations that would “probably” include “an eventual nuclear weapon capability,” harbored known terrorists in Baghdad, abused the human rights of his citizens, and possessed and used chemical weapons on Iranians and his own people.

The American response at that time? To renew diplomatic relations with Iraq that had been broken off since 1967, provide intelligence and aid to support Iraq in its war with Iran, and send presidential envoy Donald Rumsfeld for a personal visit with Saddam.

Ha! McSweeney’s is compiling a list of “Open Letters to People or Entities who are Unlikely to Respond.”

An Open Letter to Penguins

Dear Penguins, I would like to apologize on behalf of my species for making fun of you….I’d like to start by saying that we realize that you are not actually wearing tuxedos. We don’t quite understand the evolutionary purpose of your black-and-white color scheme, so we have simply said that you wear tuxedos to be funny….Second, the polka music. We do in fact realize that this music is not playing all the time in Antarctica. (Likewise, we are also aware that polar-bear habitats do not feature naturally occurring tuba music.)”

Also,

An Open Letter to my Hairline

An Open Letter to my Eighth-Grade Yearbook Photo

Other stuff on Sweeney’s:

Changes to the Hotel California, made in response to Mr. Henley’s recent complaint

Interviews with people who have interesting or unusual jobs

Saddam’s Interrogation Logs

More Pope Reviews

Okay, 24 has just got to be the greatest show going. Every show has me on the edge of my seat, often yelling at the screen cheering on the good guys and cursing out the bad guys. The show totally stresses me out – my heart gets racing and I’m constantly having to catch my breath in the commercials. I’m so riled up by the end of it, I have to take a walk to cool down.

Last night’s show was no exception. We’re down to the last three episodes and they’ve turned it up way past 10. I hate that I have to wait another whole week for the next one.

From Yahoo Top Photos: “A Pakistani street entertainer balances his goat on a pole…” heh. goat on a pole. I don’t know why I find that so funny. But there ya go.

I’m not sure why they got into the business in the first place, though I’m surprised that they would be pulling out after such a short time. Microsoft is not known for throwing in the towel so quickly. I guess they realized that they weren’t going to be able to throw their weight around in a field dominated by companies that really know what they’re doing.

File this quote under “Huh?!”: “…Microsoft entered the Wi-Fi field with hopes of ‘raising the bar’ on security, ease-of-use and performance and now feels it has accomplished those goals.”

Hrm… something just doesn’t seem right here: Microsoft, Security, Ease-of-use, Performance. The words just don’t seem to work together…