Indeed it's Friday again, and I can't remember ever being more thrilled to come into work half hung over on a Friday morning than I was today after a long night in my heat-and-hydro-less apartment that, even now, may still be without power.

You know, I'd seriously love to be able to blame someone for allowing Toronto's infrastructure to become such a decrepit clusterfuck, but I'm pretty sure this power outage is the result of decades of passing the buck at every level of government, so... what can you do? (Freeze your goddamn balls off, apparently, is one thing you can do.)

Meh. I just hope the pipes don't burst and fuck up my records.

Anyway, five o'clock is creeping closer, and even though I may be afraid to go home (in case I have nothing better to do than to sit there freezing in the dark), I'm sure some of you out there are desperate to get the hell out of here for the weekend. So here are a few ways to pass the time.

+ A toy that (kind of) predicts the future? Sign me up. [Arizona Republic]

+ Just a little story about Tommy Lasorda and the biggest fucking cock he's ever seen. [Deadspin]

+ Prefer your favourite team's radio commentators to the guys on TV? (If you're a Blue Jays fan and said No, hi Mrs. Campbell.) Well, now you can delay your radio signal so that it syncs with the images on TV. [Delay Play Radio]

+ The classiest bridal dress you're ever going to see. [PlayUsOut]

+ A hoax involving a fake Moldovan soccer player, Masal Bugduv, has its origins in Irish Literature. [Run Of Play via With Leather]

+ There are stories everywhere about how mind-boggling it is that a US Airways pilot managed to flawlessly land a jet in the Hudson River yesterday, but since James Fallows is a pilot and his is the one I'm looking at right now, I'll go with that. [The Atlantic]

+ And speaking of that averted-tragedy, apparently Vince Carter was an eyewitness. There's probably a joke in there somewhere, but I can't for the life of me come up with it. [Newark Star-Leder via Ball Don't Lie]

+ Screen shots from the LeBron-Cleveland Browns cock tease ad. [Sparty & Friends, via Deadspin]

+ The Friendly Bear on Skates is a friendly bear who looks like Riker and skates and occasionally has his head plastered in places like the bathroom at Sneaky Dee's. [Stillepost plus a nifty video on Google Video, most of it almost certainly NSFW (or just plain wrong)]

+ Morgan, Bench, Clooney, Ellen and WTF? [The Big Lead]

+ TheScore.com, now with extra bacon. [TheScore.com Hat tip: With Leather]

+ Are you sure your piss poor attempt at acting drunk isn't hurting anyone? [Holy Taco]

+ Clips and a trailer for James Toback's documentary Tyson, which premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.