On a slow news day, massive time wasters are of essential value to anyone tasked with producing blog content. Thankfully, New York magazine has produced a time waster of such staggering depth that you could literally disappear into it for hours of lost productivity:

The Electopedia is the home for all minutia—sometimes interesting, often pointless— regarding the three remaining contenders for the presidency. Who is Barack Obama’s worst political enemy? What Swedish band does John McCain threaten to play in the White House elevators? How do the three candidates get along with their siblings?

(Answers after the cut!)

It’s Friday, and it’s approaching late afternoon. Don’t even pretend you have something more interesting to be doing.

1) Obama’s worst enemy? New York’s scribes claim 2004 Illinois senate competitor Alan Keyes, who once noted, “Christ would not vote for Barack Obama.”

2) McCain threatens to play ABBA in the White House elevators. Which might well surprise those that guessed Swedish metal aficionados Dismember.

3) As for siblings:

• Obama has seven half-siblings, two of whom he’s close with.

• John McCain is said to have warm relations with all of his siblings, and attempts to leave them out of the spotlight of his campaigns for office.

• Hillary’s relationship with her brothers is classified by New York, charitably, as “a liability.” The Russian/Georgian mafia plays a cameo in the story.