Has everything that's happened with the economy this week made you feel like a semi-insignificant pawn in a game of chess?

Well, that's because you are. As proof, check out TheyRule, a website that graphically shows you who sits on the boards of most major corporations. As you can probably guess, it's basically a big, nasty, tangled web of powerful individuals and corporations mixed up with each other and the government. Not surprisingly, many of these corporate big wigs sit on the boards of not just one, but several major companies. Take Vernon E. Jordan. He sits on the board at Asbury Automotive, Xerox, J.C. Penney, Sara Lee, and American Express, and, oh, was also a Clinton Administration advisor. In addition to seeing which boards various people sit on you, the site also links you to search listings for each person so you can dig deeper if you really want to feel bad about your station in life.

While this site has the potential to be really depressing, it's (of course) got a fun little schadenfreude tool that makes the icons for the execs who sit on multiple boards look fatter than the others. Okay, so it's not that awesome. But we'll take what we can get in this case.