Amazon-Post revisited still again

My q is gonna sound silly to many of us, esp those not terribly interested in current events. However Amazon fields a regular set of links for recent favorite articles in the Washington Post. But if you are, then I suggest you contact Amazon (or the Post?) to get on their list

Problem is, it comes so often, each with typically a dozen or two new entries; and as every title or link suggests a subject of interest I'm overcome by overchoice

So I need various simple, quick means to generate a random number. For instance adding the figures in today's date, 1-8-15 yields 24: So I count 4 titles down from the top, then if of any interest at all, open the link

Using birthday, 11-11-30 of course drops me 'way off the page; though at 85 I've forgotten my sons'. Or I could count the number of books on the shelf beside my work station; though the disadvantage being it's not as random and so I'd overuse it

The present time of course might somehow qualify. But where 12:30 also probly too big, 12 + 6 gives 18. So anyhow you get the idea

Thanks to any other such as I; though yes, no, I do wonder sometimes if we're entirely okay up there