most entertaining waste of my time

I have found a new favorite website which adds to my list of sites that are 'the most entertaining waste of my time especially when I'm sitting in class' these sites include:
1. Gear Attack: 'keeping gear addicts up to date on great prices one deal at a time'
2. geekologie: 'a geek blog dedicated to the scientific study of gadgets, gizmos, and awesome. There are a lot of shiny new things out there, and Geekologie is dedicated to finding every last one of them for you.'
3. woot! and shirt.woot! derby: 'America’s most sensational fashion sensation! Oh, wait, we were thinking of those rubber wiffle-slippers everybody wears now. Shirt.Woot, on the other hand, is a web site that applies the Woot model to selling t-shirts: a new one every day at midnight Central time, sold cheap.'
4. Facebook: 'gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected'
5. Yahoo!: varies from '600 spam messages' to 'no unread messages in your inbox'

as I write these I realize how limited my access of the world wide web really is; also, how sad it might be that i get my current events from facebook and geekologie rather than a CNN which claims to be 'among the world’s leaders in online news and information delivery' But than again, according to google so does www.beacononlinenews.com, www.nowpublic.com, www.twitter.com and www.worldtek.com so i dont really know who to believe anymore and I think I should start just worrying about my immediate surroundings like they did before phones or computers, just to simplify my life.

Usernames from the past

So when the internet first became popular and everyone created email addresses and AIM screen names they were all some sort of inspired representation of themselves. I even fell into the creative username trap; my first AIM screen name was prncssbubbles45 and my email was little_tinkerbell_girl@hotmail.com who knows if its still active, its probably just full of spam mail now or someone who sent me an email because I wrote it in their yearbook. But how can you blame a helpless 8th grader wanted to be a part of the social network that is the internet. I've noticed that it's not just young pups trying to find themselves in this world that have representative usernames, my dad also suffers from this form of self expression. gonehikingtoday@yahoo.com or something like that is one of his emails. I'm not sure what makes people decide that they should have a "grown up" username; for me, it was applying for scholarships. I had this feigned image of myself in college and i felt that to complete the image, i needed to create a more sophisticated username. this was the beginning of sharnarossberg@yahoo.com. It definitely got my point across, I wasn't some tinkerbell_girl that you were just throwing your money at, I was a responsible adult that deserved to get payed to go to school. Unfortunately, my email address had little affect on the money i received, which was pretty much nothing Since i focused on the impact of my email address rather than my application, might have also stunted my merit of getting any scholarships. I feel that I am still a better person for abandoning the tinkerbell_girl of the past and moving on to bigger and better things. Changing my email address has possibly been the best thing I've done for myself ever since i discovered that putting ranch dressing on anything amplifies the flavor ten fold. I do still hang on to that prncssbubbles45 character though in case i need to reminisce the summer of 2002 past.