Alt text on http://xkcd.com/862/ http://xkcd.com/862/ : "After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness

Alt text on http://xkcd.com/862/ http://xkcd.com/862/ : "After years of trying various methods, I broke this habit by pitting my impatience against my laziness. I decoupled the action and the neurological reward by setting up a simple 30-second delay I had to wait through, in which I couldn't do anything else, before any new page or chat client would load (and only allowed one to run at once). The urge to check all those sites magically vanished--and my 'productive' computer use was unaffected." Implemented in node.js: https://gist.github.com/845591 https://gist.github.com/845591 (by kuroikaze85)