But that those of you who do may find interesting.

One of Brendan’s chief complaints about the iPhone seems to be that he couldn’t connect it to his lapper and use it as a modem.

If I’m reading this right, that seems to have been fixed by some enterprising computer person.

I’m really just posting this for those of you who actually know how to do that kind of thing. I don’t know how/if/why it works.

Enjoy.

Marlins pitcher Dontrelle Willis challenged Barry Bonds yesterday, throwing “fastball after fastball,” and Willis won the duel: Bonds failed to hit a home run, striking out once and popping out twice. So he’s stuck at 754 home runs, one short of Hank Aaron’s record, heading into today’s 4:30 PM EDT game against Florida, which is the last game of his homestand. The Giants hit the road tomorrow for a three-game series at Dodger Stadium, followed by a three-game series at the Padres.

Meanwhile, as the inevitable historic homer approaches, ESPN’s Gene Wojciechowski asks:

What will Barry Bonds tell his three children if one day their curiosity overwhelms their loyalty and they ask, “Daddy, did you cheat?”

What will he say to the revered Henry Aaron, whose 33-year home run record is about to fall, if Hammering Hank asks, “Tell an old man the truth: Did you beat me fair and square?”

And what will Bonds tell himself when career home run No. 756 arrives? Will he ask if the means justified the end?

Eating mashed potatoes on the roof of a 34-story downtown highrise at 3:30 AM:

This is what the view was like:

Turns out, soccer players do better when playing for a monetary reward instead of playing to avoid being tortured:

Iraq delivered an inspirational victory Sunday by winning the Asian Cup with a 1-0 victory over Saudi Arabia, a beacon of hope for a nation divided by war.

It was an extraordinary triumph for a team drawn together from all parts of the Gulf and with its players straddling bitter and violent ethnic divides.

Iraq scored on a 71st-minute header by Younis Mahmoud and dominated the final against heavily favored Saudi Arabia, a three-time Asian Cup champion. This was Iraq’s first Asian Cup title. …

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s office announced that each player on the Iraqi team would receive $10,000.

The win is being greeted with celebratory gunfire.

Just got a breaking-news email from ABC News with this rather scary headline: “WASHINGTON, D.C., CLOSES AT LEAST TWO GREEN LINE METRO STATIONS AS DEAD BIRDS ARE FOUND.” But based on the AP article, it doesn’t sound like terrorism:

Authorities have confirmed that the substance that killed up to 20 birds at the Greenbelt metro station and brought hazmat crews to three others is rat poison.

D.C. fire department spokesman Alan Etter says the metro will have to figure out if the poison was put out by an employee or contractor.

He says they “strongly suspect” that the same substance was responsible for the dead birds at Naylor Road, Anacostia and Takoma stations.

He says the birds from the D.C. stations are being packaged up and taken to the health department, since the rain and wind caused most of the substance to wash away by the time the fire department got there.

The discovery came shortly after noon today and caused the Greenbelt and Takoma stations to close during the investigation.