Christian Bale lost about 275 pounds for his role in this cross between Memento and Fight Club. And, man, did he look awful. You should watch this one, though, for all it’s faults, it’s on the higher end of 3 stars.

This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.

So Mad Men is pretty great, and this was my favorite quote from last week’s episode. I wanted to memorialize it on my corner of the web for Googlesterity (Google + Posterity = Googlesterity, get it?). I read somewhere about how Aaron Sorkin probably watches Mad Men every week and kicks himself. The best thing about Mad Men is that AT LEAST once an episode I’m blown away by a scene. Just like when West Wing was excellent.

“Lesson Five: High Morale Makes Creativity Cheap. If you have low morale, for every $1 you spend, you get about 25 cents of value. If you have high morale, for every $1 you spend, you get about $3 of value. Companies should pay much more attention to morale.”

Wanna hear a neat trick? OK, it goes like this:

1. Find the Social Security number of someone who uses TD Ameritrade Institutional
2. Call TD Ameritrade, and press 3 for the “online” department.
3. Tell the nice man, “Hi! I forgot my username and password.”
4. He’ll ask you, “What’s your Social Security number?” Tell him.
5. He’ll tell you the username, and reset the password to the last 4 digits of the SSN.
6. Profit!

Seriously, the dude didn’t even ask for my name. I feel very safe, though, since it’d be pretty hard for someone to get my Social Security number. It’s not like I’ve had my identity stolen, or anything.

Via Portfolio, we find that the The Waverly Inn, the restaurant owned by Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair stores the garbage overnight in a refrigerated room so that, as a courtesy to neighbors, it can be picked up at 10 AM instead of 2 AM. What a mensch.

Similar to last year’s discovery of an apartment in the Providence Place Mall, but much more nefarious, someone is growing dope in the Mall Of The Americas. Pretty soon, we’ll be saying to each other, “Remember when malls were just for shopping?” I don’t really have any crazy mall adventures, do you?

I have a reputation among certain friends as a junk food junkie who will eat whatever, whenever, wherever. I don’t think this reputation is completely unwarranted as I enjoy Ho Hos, Suzy Qs, and Ring Dings as much as anyone, and probably more. (Incidentally, in creating this post I stumbled across something I’d long been suspicious of: Hostess and Drake are owned by the same company, IBC.) Anyway, yes, I enjoy these tasty cakes, but not in excess, and really, I only eat them a couple times per month, if that. This shouldn’t brand me a junk food junkie, should it?

I made a can of corned beef hash the other morning and realized, “This is the worst food I eat.” It’s gross. A serving is half a can and contains 42% of my daily sodium and 55% of daily saturated fat. This is not a good thing to eat. I only eat half a can, but eating a whole can is easy and has been done. I love hash. That said, I don’t think I’ve eaten more than 3 servings of it this year.

So what’s the worst food you enjoy? Worst can be defined as something bad for you, something you think is tasty but gross (tongue, liver, etc), or could be something of a social conscious thing like veal. Leave your answer in the comments.

From this long, though interesting profile of super fundraiser, Haim Saban, the man who brought America the Power Rangers: “At the appointed time, Saban, Arad, and Simmons sat down…Then Saban turned to Arad and, referring to Simmons, confided in Hebrew, “Now we gut him like a fish.” Without missing a beat, Simmons—who, unbeknownst to Saban, was born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel—replied in Hebrew, ‘You asshole. I’m one of you.’”

Here are three galleries of outstanding photos from the Beijing Olympics. (Note: some of the photos, and the site that hosts them, may not be work-appropriate.)

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(via Kottke)

Omlet UK will deliver 2 chickens and a fox proof run if you live in certain parts of the UK. I’m thinking chickens might be a bit harder to keep than this lets on, but, you know, people keep cats. And cats don’t lay fresh eggs everyday.