Danger Guerrero emailed me about the embedded video below: “This is a clip from ABC news last night featuring researchers and scientists in China putting on huge panda costumes to go interact with baby pandas. I don’t think it needs more context than that.”

He’s right, too — this is best enjoyed at face value. It was DEFINITELY worth ABC’s money to send a news crew to the other side of the planet for a two-minute story with a reporter in a panda suit. Alert the Pulitzer committee.

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This is a delight. In this collection of commercials for Panda Cheese — a product of Egypt — people who say no to Panda Cheese learn that the decision comes with repercussions. Specifically, an assh*le panda shows up and ruins their day. The execution is pitch-perfect — the direction, the creepiness of the panda, the dissonance between the violence and Buddy Holly’s “True Love Ways” — I award this ad campaign five panda attacks (out of five) for a perfect score of PANDAMONIUM!

Seriously, this is the best video to come out of the Middle East since… uh, since… there’s no way I can finish that joke without mentioning terrorism, is there?

(thanks to Rob at Topless Robot for the tip, video also at boing boing)

Everyone’s getting T-shirts. Until 10 a.m. Central time this morning, all Threadless t-shirts are $9, including Pandamonium here. [Threadless]

Boo. Remember the awesome Method commercial with the lecherous soap bubbles? Yeah, people complained about it — some even said that it condoned rape (WTF?) — and Method pulled it. [AdRants]

I give up. The series finale of “Monk” became the most-watched one-hour cable show ever when it drew 9.4 million viewers on Friday night. That’s about three times more viewers than most-watched episode of “Mad Men,” and well over twice the most-watched “Sons of Anarchy.” Note to Grandma and Grandpa: there are other basic cable channels besides USA and TNT. [The Live Feed]

Glayvin! Adrianne Curry, the original “America’s Next Top Model” winner and Playboy model extraordinaire played some World of Warcraft… NUDE! Link is safe for work, unfortunately. [Gamma Squad]

Because women are bad at everything, you see. A 1980s instructional video for operating guns. [Everything Is Terrible via Videogum]

‘The Fabulous Lives of Women Who Get Cheated On’: VH1 will chronicle the lives of NBA WAGs in “Basketball Wives.” [VH1]

Yummy. An interview with “Modern Family’s” Sofia Vergara. There is nothing I don’t love about this woman. [LA Times]

Today’s the day that both of the remaining households without cable or satellite television finally make the switch to digital TV feeds, and it’s INSANITY!!!  Ahhh WHAT’S HAPPENING????  How was I supposed to know?  Who saw this coming?!?!?!?  Or, as The Live Feed — which is live-blogging news about the transition — smartly put it:

2.8 million Americans [are waking] to a new dawn of inconvenience, a disaster akin to a power outage (if the outage only impacted one appliance in your home, was entirely solved by a trip to Best Buy and you knew it was coming for two years in advance).

So what’s the problem?  The problem is that it’s a GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY, MAN.

In a sprawling, consummately paranoid tirade, “Dr. A. True Ott” theorizes that the DTV box is a miniaturized version of the military’s HAARP project, a device that he claims will be used to totally pacify the world’s population, allowing the “New World Order” (funded by those international Freemason banking consortiums, natch) to deploy the military industrial complex and create a global fascist police state.

Quick everyone!  Collect all the bottled water, canned food, and pandas you can find, and get to the bomb shelters!