More Info than Brains

I’ve always been a fan of formulas. Simple rules that allow me to think once, and apply to all. Picture it like situational prejudice – that is, being prejudicial towards situations, not being prejudice in certain situations.

Some classics include; 1/2 my age +7 is the youngest I’ll date, 37 is always the right number, and only 3 more drinks after I vomit blood in the urinal.

With my bookmark bar rapidly filling, I developed a new formula that, just like the bloody-vomit rule, might improve your lives as much as it has mine. With each web-author realizing that two hours old is too old, I find myself constantly cycling through my favorite blogs, community sites and video posts to make sure I keep up. The problem is that by the time I’m finished with the cycle, the first place I went has had time to update; all of a sudden it’s 3AM and I’m developing a bed-sore.

I’ve now imposed a limit of Four websites on the cycle plus two prospects. This allows a substantial enough window between cycles to take care of important things, like eating and tweezing. The two prospect sites are new sites that may make it into The Four if their quality exceeds one of the current Four.

Any more than four, routinely checked, websites and you risk a vicious, downward spiral into a world of mediocre writing and boring ideas.

My current four:
WebVomit(music)
MySpace(stalking/harassing)
Suicidegirls(news, community, pop culture and boobs – really, this could replace all of the four if they had better music coverage and more membership)
SuperDeluxe(comedy).

Prospects:
Facebook – Much better/higher functioning than the clusterfuck of //:codetag*7 that is MySpace, and now that they don’t restrict membership to snot-nosed college brats, it has potential.