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Microsoft Live's mildly humorous approach to search with a political bent. If I hear the "we must have change" bit again I'm going to hunt down the producer of this and...

Will this post get me banned as well?  We'll see.

The Secular Student Alliance issued this press release:

Check it out for yourself.  Go to groups and search for "atheist".  Note the several pages of results that all refer to the Atheist and Agnostic group.  Click on any of those links.  They all lead to unrelated sites.  Deception on a grand scale.  It almost seems to be more work than was required.

So is this being done by MySpace or to MySpace?  Either way it's a sad comment on the state of this online community. .. src="http://shots.snap.com//client/inject.js?site_name=myspace" type="text/javascript">..>

CPU - The more you use your computer, the more cr*p piles up inside.  Cr*p on your hard drive, cr*p in memory, even dust bunny cr*p in the case.  To refer to all this garbage, we use the acronym CPU, for Cr*p Piling Up.

SYSTEM BUS - You've all heard that the internet is called the "information highway".  Well, you can't very well walk on a highway, you need a vehicle.  Let's all get aboard the system bus and ride the world-wide information highway.  When you're well-known on the internet, you get to ride in the short bus.  You can all be my guests, it leaves from the 4th Street depot at 6:00am.

BUS SPEED - Even on the information highway there are laws.  You can't throw cigarette butts out the window, you can't drive in the emergency lane and you aren't allowed to speed.  To maintain equal access to all the marvelous stops along the way, speed has to regulated.  Some drivers have Porsche-like DSL connections while others are still plugging along on their Nash Rambler-dialup connection.  For this reason internet speed is limited to 55 MPH, which translates in techy terms to about 27.6 kajillion bits every 2½ weeks.

NORTH/SOUTH BRIDGE - Information (data in tech talk) travels every which way across your motherboard (the big green thing inside your computer that supports all the other devices, which is why it's called a mother board).  It's a zoo.  There's no organization, no order, no reason.  This is why Windows works so well on modern computers.  Every so often information crosses paths with other information.  For example, a YouTube video is racing (at 27.6kjb/2½wks) toward your monitor connection while the audio from it is headed toward your speaker plug.  If they collided, it would be chaos.  You might get bits of audio on your monitor and wind up hearing a dog on a skateboard.  To prevent this, pioneering geeks devised an information bridge, so traffic could bypass other traffic and collisions would be minimized (though sadly not eliminated).  There's a North Bridge and a South Bridge.  Little lines on the motherboard direct the data traffic toward the appropriate bridge it needs to cross to reach its final destination.  It's vitally important that the North Bridge and South Bridge be properly oriented.  The North Bridge should face up while the South Bridge should face down (for those of you in Australia just reverse these directions.)  You may have to stand the computer case on its face to assure proper orientation.  This procedure is greatly simplified if you followed my earlier advice to suspend your computer case from the ceiling with an electro-magnet.  (Note: my buddy Thom still has a few 1000 watt electro-magnets for sale, guaranteed to hold a 50 case perfectly suspended above your workspace.  Hurry, holiday pricing ends January 1st or when sold out) 

VIRTUAL COMPUTER - Just a fancy name for a notepad and pencil.

GRID COMPUTING - A way of laying out the machines on your desk, primarily used by the anal retentive.

MESH COMPUTING - A term devised by a hair-lipped tech for computer desktops containing over 275 shortcut icons (most of which lead to long-ago deleted programs) or browsers with at least 10 toolbars.  Obvioushly a mesh.

Four days off in a row!  I have two projects which need to be completed by next weekend (almost 4 days as well, four hours of work on Saturday). 

My primary project is building the storage shed next to the cottage so I can get all the stuff that doesn't fit into the house protected from theft and the weather.

My second project is getting my newsletter published.  I'm only four months behind.

I've added a background to my profile that should, to anyone who understands what the big red A stand for, make clear my opinion of religions.

I'd like to think this will slow down "friend" requests from people who "love Jesus and want to spread his love to the internet" or believe any other theistic hooey.  To all those who persist despite my friendly warning, let me say with love...don't bother.  I do have friends who are theists, but I'm picky about them, and only allow those I know to be decent people above and beyond their theism to call me friend.

I've secured the domain onelessgodthanyou.com, and as soon as I can begin construction (this weekend, perhaps) I would like to see the site become an outreach to our brothers and sisters trapped in the life-sucking mindset that demands obedience to the gods.

I used to be reluctant to mention my atheistic beliefs around friends. Since I knew they were believers, or at least wanted to believe they were believers, I knew I wouldn't impress them with my well-thought-out arguments and rationalizations that discredited their faith. Why piss them off needlessly, I thought. Just keep such things to yourself.

Then this current atmosphere of right-wing fundamentalism started to grow, and I knew the time had come to quit being too polite, too concerned that I'd upset someone. The time had come to stand up and be counted, to rail against the coming darkness. It's time to stand in opposition to those who would have the world believe America is a theocracy.

My inspiration for the site name comes from one of my favorite atheistic quotes, one I'm sure many of you are familiar with;

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."

Stephen F Roberts

Once onelessgodthanyou.com is up and running, I'd appreciate suggestions and requests on its content and design. I want it to become a site that informs and intrigues theists of all stripes. Perhaps it's not too late to help a few of them see the light of day, a day spent thinking for yourself.

I can fully understand why so many extremely hot, toned and tan, vivacious young women with a MySpace page where for a small fee and an email address I can see them in the buff would want to be friends with me and my penguin sidekick.  What's not to love?

Yet you and I both know that their real desire, their unbridled passion, isn't for me and my bird-brained buddy.  It's strictly for paying customers and addresses they can sell. 

Sorry, but my interest in friends like that is minimal, especially since I can look at naked young women for free all over the internet.  So I won't be approving your "friend request".

I can't speak for the penguin.