I missed my Friday Flash game window, so I’m posting this now: Neave’s Webgames has Flash versions of a bunch of arcade favorites, including Pong, Space Invaders, Snake, Simon, and Tetris. What fun… 
Sarah Silverman’s (formerly of SNL) “10 Things Men Don’t Know About Women” is pretty funny.
RetroCrush presents The World’s Coolest Beer Bottles. And the Quantum Beer Theory is kind of cool too, along with some informative links. Mmm…beer 
. While you’re at it, catch up on the latest bar slang, you boozgart.
Almost everyone has heard the sordid tales of the stunningly avaricious executives of Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco. As the SEC deadline for reporting company “earnings restatements” approaches, more companies will probably be forced to admit their accounting innaccuracies (read: cooking of their books). In this light, the Fortune Magazine report on “The Greedy Bunch,” a list of the most greedy corporate executives and how much money they have made at the expense of their shareholders, is particularly interesting. The article and its associated stories goes into a good amount of detail on these unconscionable actions, but this passage in particular incites my wrath:
The not-so-secret dirty secret of the crash is that even as investors were losing 70%, 90%, even in some cases all of their holdings, top officials of many of the companies that have crashed the hardest were getting immensely, extraordinarily, obscenely wealthy. They got rich because they were able to take advantage of the bubble to cash in hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of stock--stock that was usually handed to them via risk-free options--at vastly inflated prices. When the bubble burst, their shareholders were left holding the bag.
I just can’t fathom how these executives can live with themselves knowing that they have profited at the expense of thousands of people’s lives. W’s Accounting Industry Reform Act is too little too late and is hypocrisy in the highest degree, but that’s another rant I won’t get into right now. For this legislation to be at all effective it has to have actual consequences, not a slaps on the wrist that don’t do a damn thing to help compensate the employees and shareholders whose stocks have been decimated.
Do you remember The Muppet Show? I grew up watching the show, so when I came upon this great site on The Muppet Show I was pretty happy. It has an exhaustive list of episodes as well as a profile of all of the Muppet characters; definitely worth a look.
In preparation for their 25,000th (!) show, ESPN is showcasing their best SportsCenter commercials. If you haven’t seen these commercials before, then you’re in for a treat. If you have, then you should have already clicked on over and relived their hilarity!
Whatever-Dude’s Worst Superheroes Extravaganza is right on the money. Personally, though, I think the Superfriends’ Wendy, Marvin, and Wonder Dog should have topped the list; they turned one of my favorite cartoons into a bad Scooby-Doo knockoff! 
The HisTory of Michael Jackson’s face shows the disturbing transformation of the King of Pop into the almost unrecognizable figure he has become. What a shame…
Funniest. Link. Ever. If that’s not enough to tantalize you, the link is a video of the Leonard Nimoy ‘60s hit “The Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins.” I had heard the audio before and thought it pretty funny, but you have to see the video to fully appreciate its hilarity.
This might be an old rumor by now, but I figured I’d repeat it. Apparently there are whispers among the NHL that Wayne Gretzky might make a comeback a la Mario Lemieux and Michael Jordan. The Great One denies these rumors, saying “I’m not coming back, trust me. I’m about three lines away from our fourth unit.” I hope that these “workouts” being cited as evidence for his return are just that and that he’s not contemplating returning to the NHL. As much as I’d like to see him play again, seeing any former great play as a shadow of his former self is a travesty IMHO.
