If you thought my OuLiPo love was a little kooky, just wait 'till you check out OuMyPo [thanks, Sean!]. That's short for "Ouvroir de MySpace Potentielle," which means exactly what you think it means: Workshop of Potential MySpace.

OuMyPo "seeks to uncover new MySpace structures, patterns and behaviors," such as:

the "F+7″ method: Replace every friend in your "Top Friends" list with the friend seven entries after that person in your "My Friends" list

…and…

try the "Pimp My MySpace HTML Lipogram" whereby you cannot use any HTML codes containing the letters h, t, m, or l when constructing your page

According to the first comment on this post on Poetry Foundation's blog harriet, OuMyPo is the work of one Luke McGowan, though this is otherwise unverifiable, at least through google.

If this all sounds absurdly silly, consider the fact that my younger brother spends an amount of creative energy on his MySpace (well, now Facebook) profile comprable to that which I spent rewriting bad pop-punk song lyrics to make fun of my high school, drawing terrible cartoons featuring myself and my two best friends as the dubious superheros "the triangle girls," and compiling an epic compendium of (then-)hilarious quotes from friends, family, and teachers alike.

OuFaPo, anyone?