Flotsam and Jetsam

For the lack of a better term, I've decided to share the hopefully cool, but surely random (fantastic, an effortless bit of irony halfway through my first sentence) items that I encountered while trying to "work" under the general heading of flotsam and jetsam. At times, a decent internet connection is the kiss of death insofar as productivity is concerned. Oh well. I suppose that I could suffer from interminable boredom and slog on like the dutiful soldier that I could be, but that just wouldn't be me. Besides, there's so much cool stuff out there, it would be a travesty not to point them out.

1. First of, here's an interesting article that budding multimillionaires and people of leisure should read, The anatomy of a diversified portfolio.

2. Bill Simmons updated his Basketball Blog, most recently with a mailbag, but he had an even better entry before that on LeBron James' masterful Game 5 performance against Detroit. A Simmons-esque moment characterized the latter, where Simmons writes:

After it ended, I had a reader compare it to a player catching fire in the old "NBA Jam" arcade game, when every jump shot would result in the basketball being on fire. I had a Pistons fan named Duane e-mail me, "Watching LeBron's performance in Game 5 made me feel like Ron Burgundy. LBJ pooped in my refrigerator, ate the whole wheel of cheese and I'm not even mad. That was amazing."

The NBA and Ron Burgundy. Classic Simmons.

3. Here's an excellent countdown of The Sopranos' 10 Most Memorable Whackings, which ought to help people keep score while waiting for this excellent series to complete its final run.