NP: John Cage, 4'33"

So, apparently there's a new study out that says that, despite what Facebook tells you, humans can only really maintain about 150 "friends".

This, of course, is not new news. What I find interesting is that neither of the two bloggers I've seen write about this have mentioned Malcolm Gladwell and The Tipping Point, where he discusses this exact topic in what I recall to be considerably detail, and relates it to the optimal size of military units. The premise is that you want your soldier to have a personal relationship with everyone in his unit, and there's a number -- I think it's 160 in the book -- where that's been demonstrated to break down.

I would also tie this back in to Jeff Hawkins' On Intelligence, where Hawkins ties this capacity back to the square footage of the cerebral cortex if you flattened it out.

Sometimes I think the blogosphere, for all it's searchable history, is ADD personified.