Handoverjob: Saddam didn't seem too happy to be sitting in front of some highfalutin judge last week, seeing as how he'd lost his job as ruthless dictator of Iraq and spent the last few months with American soldiers watching him go potty. But that didn't stop that competitive desert fox from challenging the justice to a couple rounds of Jan-Ken-Pon, or Rock, Paper, Scissors to the Nippon-challenged. See Saddam in action at http://bigmixup.com/rockpapersaddam/.

Tape backup: Sometimes the line between brilliant and out-to-lunch can be so thin as to be invisible. The PlusDeck is a drive for your PC that lets you - wait for it - play and record cassette tapes. That's right, you can turn your old Young MC and Weird Al tapes into MP3 files, and record a mix tape for your '84 Z-Car in much the same manner. Appropriately, it's made by a Korean company called BTO. Take care of business at http://plusdeck.com/english/.

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