Relax. Take it easy. Put your feet up and enjoy. NHL Bloopers.

Here’s the link. The embedded version was annoying some very important people.

Here’s another one from nhl.com. I’ll file it under “lighter side”.

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My son is working on a magazine of his own, and you know what? I made the cover! We had the photo shoot last night. Here’s the cover shot:

Having seen that, I must say that I am a little curious to see what he did with the interview.

My name is Risto Pakarinen, and I’m a freelance journalist. A mid-evil mercenary. Judging from all the emails I get every day, many of you dream of being freelancers, too. “How did you get your very own blog?” people ask me. Well, let me tell you.

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A local businessman was stunned to realize the meeting he attended at lunchtime required no input from him whatsoever.

“I think this proves one of the oldest economic theories wrong. There is such a thing as free lunch,” Kenneth Adam, CFO, said. “I just had one.”

The meeting with a local tax consultant was arranged by Mr. Adam’s PA.

“I did nothing but eat: my PA fixed it all, I didn’t buy anything, and I was totally texting with my buddies all through the lunch, like I always do. I’ll even bill somebody for my time,” he said.

“Frankly, when my business school professor said there was no such thing as free lunch, I believed him. This is mind-boggling.”

AC Milan defender Paolo Maldini misses the next Champions League match, a quarterfinal game against Bayern München, for disciplinary reasons, the club announced today.

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David Beckham, former England captain, announced today the acquisition of the English national team. “There’ll be some changes,” Mr. Beckham said at the press conference.

The terms of the contract were not disclosed, but according to our sources, Beckham is said to have paid 200 billion pounds for exclusive control of the national team for three years.

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I’m in Finland for the Finnish Custom Publishing Day, and staying at a hotel. Every time I eat alone in a restaurant – and that happens regularly on my numerous visits to the old country – I think about this movie: Steve Martin, The Lonely Guy.

No spotlights on me tonight, though.

Weird Al gone bad. Well, no, he did “Bad” a long time ago. Here he is, white and nerdy.

Lyrics after the jump.

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This hilarious silent movie version of Star Wars off of BoingBoing: