CrazyFingers
The Power of Lame Compels You
As far as ninjas being cool, I think as a kid you find them cool because the way they're portrayed is a bunch of highly trained, elite assassins that do a bunch of cool martial arts. When you're older and learn what they really were, it turns into a sort of "Cheering for the under dog" sort of thing. They, against all odds, decided enough was enough and fought back against their government. You can say what you want about them, but they DID know how to fight (the training for Ninjitsu isn't exactly easy and took guys a lot of time to learn it) and for what they were, they put up a hell of a fight.