- IAC Interactive expressed interest in buying Yahoo Personals, using the logic that unemployed people have more time to look for trim on the Internet. Seeing as dating usually costs money, which is generally scarce for the unemployed, could we suggest instead a Redtube buy? Oh well – if anyone actually has the scratch to pay for a nice date, they can always use IACI’s recent acquisition, UrbanSpoon, to pick a restaurant.

- TheReformedBroker published his who’s who of financial bloggers today, with a high-school theme; Jason and I are beyond pleased that he classified us as “cool kids behind the gym, flicking cigarettes at teachers’ cars.” My mom reads LOLFed, and I bet she remembers fondly the many calls from the principal… uh, sorry, Mom.

- Best headline ever? Scam Busters: False Profits of the Aporkalypse

- While we’re in that vein, CNBC in defense of bacon.

- What’s it worth to let Ace Greenberg get near your boobies? About $2 million.

- Latest cost-saving initiative by the banks: not maintaining homes they’ve foreclosed on. Yeah, but if Sasquatch moved into one of those overgrown yards, they’d sure be anxious to claim licensing rights to his image, I bet.

- USNWR bangs the fail drum for the New Chrysler. This article brought to you by Ford

- The AlcoLOLics hand out the below-investment-grade rating.

- And finally, not finance related, but here’s a face I could never foreclose on.