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		<title>Does God Exist in Facebook?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/Ori+Sonata">Ori Sonata</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though the existence of God is still debatable, it turns out that God does have a Facebook account.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For thousands of years, the Existence of God have been a hot topic for debate and discussion. Millions of arguments have been proposed by thousands philosophers, theologians and scientists. So far, no conclusive empirical evidence for the Existence of God have been found and no one has been able to come up with something capable of satisfying everyone.</p>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2009/10/08/god_1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="327" /></p>
<p>The inconclusiveness of this problem is not really relevant for everyone. For some believers, God is considered the source of power, encouragement and courage. For other believers, God is considered as a kind of faithful and trust-able invisible friends with whom they could tell feelings words can never tell. These statements of faith could be seen not only in the real world, but could also be observed on-line. One only have to log in to their Facebook account to see their friends posting something that mention something related to God.</p>
<p>One thing from these postings that took my interest is the fact that regardless of how much postings I observe, I never observe either comment or response coming directly from God. For some people, this observation result may mean that God doesn&#8217;t exists. However, a while later I realize that it is incorrect to take such hasty conclusion from mentioned observation result.</p>
<p>There are events where people write something about someone known for sure to be exists in Facebook and get no direct personal response from said person. It could be either because said person have no Facebook account or he/she is not aware about the posts. Considering that God is usually depicted as knowing everything, I wonder whether God has a Facebook account or not. After a little search, I found out that God indeed have a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/God/10141208299?ref=mf" target="_blank">public profile page in Facebook</a>. This means that even if you can&#8217;t request to become God&#8217;s friend in Facebook, you can still become God&#8217;s fans.</p>
<p>My other article :</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.authspot.com/Thoughts/Personification-of-Inanimate-Objects-and-Abstract-Concepts.114562" target="_blank">Personification of Inanimate Objects and Abstract Concepts</a></li>
<li> <a href="http://www.purpleslinky.com/Offbeat/Funny-Childhood-Misconceptions.642865" target="_blank">Funny Childhood Misconceptions</a></li>
<li><a href="http://writinghood.com/writing-business/comments-yet-another-source-of-inspiration/" target="_blank">Comments : Yet Another Source of Inspiration</a></li>
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		<title>If Operating Systems Were Cars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/Scooter+JO">Scooter JO</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comparing cars to computer operating systems.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Windows=&nbsp;  Hummer H3</h3>
<ul>
<li> The car comes in many different versions with different prices and features. Extra features such as brakes, steering, and seats will require a more expensive version of the car.</li>
<li> With each upgrade, the car will become slower, bulkier, and less efficient.</li>
<li> The car must be registered with the Department of Motor Cars the first time its engine is started. If for any reason this registration does not take place, a thirty day grace period (exactly 720 hours) will begin, immediately  after which the car will cease to function.</li>
<li> When the car is purchased, it is registered to a single driver. Only this driver will be able to operate the car.</li>
<li> 80% of parts and accessories are designed solely for this car. However, parts older than five years are not supported.</li>
<li> During high-performance driving, the car may stop moving or stall. The only way to recover from this condition is to shift into neutral, roll up all of the windows, and stop the engine. If this is not possible, the engine may be stopped manually by holding the key in the &#8220;START&#8221; position for three seconds.</li>
<li> All repair and maintenance is handled by a third party in a foreign country. This party will not repair the car, but tell the user how to do it himself.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Linux =  Volkswagen Microbus</h3>
<ul>
<li> People who drive this vehicle are commonly referred to as &#8220;power users&#8221;, &#8220;cheap&#8221;, or &#8220;stupid hippies&#8221;.</li>
<li> The vehicle is not sold for money, but given away by farmer in Seattle.</li>
<li> Driving the vehicle will generally void the owner&#8217;s car insurance.</li>
<li> The vehicle must be custom-assembled by the driver. It&#8217;s exact configuration is extremely trivial and dependent on the user&#8217;s intentions.</li>
<li> The vehicle uses homemade gasoline.</li>
<li> The only parts and accessories that are fully compatible with the vehicle are either obsolete or made by a thirty-year-old man living in his mother&#8217;s basement.</li>
<li> If the driver requires assistance, he must get it from a random stranger with the exact same car.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Mac OS X =  Toyota Prius</h3>
<ul>
<li> This vehicle is very small and efficient. It is faster than the H3, but it costs about twice as much.</li>
<li> There are no optional features. There is one version of the car.</li>
<li> Most of the accessories for the vehicle are expensive and propriety, but some are redesigned  versions of accessories from the H3.</li>
<li> The car is well-manufactured and has a large staff of fair, experienced mechanics.</li>
<li> The Prius does not use gas &#8211; it produces its own power from garbage it finds in the road.</li>
<li> The car is used mostly by rich professionals who want work to be more fun.</li>
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		<title>How to Talk to Girls Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/mthorn">mthorn</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are millions of women on the internet at any moment. Here's what you should say to them.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you&rsquo;re scared of talking to girls in person? Don&rsquo;t worry, we all are. But lucky for us, a man by the name of Al Gore invented a little thing called the internet. On the internet, you can&rsquo;t spend five minutes without running into a girl, or at least a racy picture of one. But when you actually have the chance to interact with a girl&mdash;in a chat room, on AIM, in a Gilmore Girls forum&mdash;what the hell are you supposed to say? Well, here are some simple tips that will make you king of the chat room, master of the message, fuehrer of the forum. Fuehrer in a good way, I mean.</p>
<h3>Pick Your Screen Name Very Carefully</h3>
<p>Lots of guys just slap together their name and a bunch of numbers for their screen name, and I think that&rsquo;s just awful. I mean, what could be less memorable than &ldquo;Rick41068&rdquo;? When a girl sees a screen name like that, she thinks, &ldquo;Oh, there&rsquo;s another loser named Rick I won&rsquo;t make out with.&rdquo; You&rsquo;ve got to set yourself apart from the pack.</p>
<p>And just adding an adjective to your name isn&rsquo;t going to do it. &ldquo;SlickRick41068&rdquo; is no less pitiful than &ldquo;Rick41068.&rdquo; This is how SlickRick would fare online:</p>
<p>SlickRick41068:&nbsp; hey whats up? &nbsp;</p>
<p>Hotgirl25:&nbsp; u r a loser</p>
<p>SlickRick41068:&nbsp; lol wut?</p>
<p>Hotgirl25:&nbsp; i said leave me alone! &nbsp;</p>
<p>SlickRick41068: &nbsp;is it my screen name u don&rsquo;t like?</p>
<p>Hotgirl25:&nbsp; of course its youre screen name! if not for that ud be like the perfect guy and i would totally love to date u.</p>
<p>Hotgirl 25 has signed off.</p>
<p>But she didn&rsquo;t really sign off, she just blocked you. All because you didn&rsquo;t have the right screen name.</p>
<p>And making a sexy screen name might be the worst idea of all. &ldquo;BigDickRick69&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t going to impress any girls, trust me. Having something about how big your penis is in your screen name is like getting a tattoo on your penis that says, &ldquo;This is a big penis.&rdquo; It&rsquo;s redundant, or, more likely, it&rsquo;s false.</p>
<p>So pick a screen name that&rsquo;s clever without being witty, obscure without being incomprehensible, and, most of all, memorable. Something like &ldquo;shitman61,&rdquo; in honor of the notoriously incontinent Roger Maris, or &ldquo;assman61,&rdquo; in honor of Cosmo Kramer. Something like &ldquo;cogitoergocum,&rdquo; in honor of the great Descartes, or the fiendishly post-modernist &ldquo;thisisascreennamenowkissme.&rdquo;</p>
<h3>Be Enigmatic</h3>
<p>If you let a girl know exactly what you&rsquo;re thinking, then she has no reason to wonder about what&rsquo;s going on in that brilliant head of yours. She&rsquo;ll stop thinking about you as soon as the conversation ends. That&rsquo;s why you should be as perplexing as possible, planting little mysteries in her head that will soon blossom into full-blown romantic interest.</p>
<p>Gilmoregirls36DD: &nbsp;why do u call urself mysteryman?</p>
<p>mysteryman:&nbsp; do i call myself mysteryman?</p>
<p>Gilmoregirls36DD:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;its ur screen name</p>
<p>mysteryman:&nbsp; is it?</p>
<p>Gilmoregirls36DD:&nbsp; r u planting seeds of mystery in my brain? cuz it feels like u are</p>
<p>mysteryman: a man, having a mirage, sees an oasis in a desert. what does he see?</p>
<p>Gilmoregirls36DD:&nbsp; um&#8230; an oasis?</p>
<p>mysteryman: &nbsp;what&rsquo;s ur favorite oasis album?</p>
<p>Gilmoregirls36DD:&nbsp; definitely maybe is definitely my fav!</p>
<p>mysteryman: lol!</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s good not to be too mysterious the whole time, though. Throw in the occasional &ldquo;lol&rdquo; or even &ldquo;rofpwm&rdquo;&mdash;rolling on the floor playing with myself&mdash;just to let her know you can be a normal guy, too, should the need arise. But if she ever gets close to discovering who you really are, you must bury her in thicker layers of enigma. Because once she sees the real you&mdash;the sad little man cowering behind his computer screen in his semen-stained boxer shorts&mdash;she&rsquo;s gonna run for the hills. And can you blame her?</p>
<h3>Making the Transition from Internet Relationship to Real Relationship</h3>
<p>If you feel the desire to meet your internet girlfriend in person, you must broach the topic very delicately with her. Most importantly, you must gradually prepare her for the profound disappointment that she will experience when she finally meets you. You can accomplish this through some strategic joke-making.</p>
<p>enigmaboy: hey, wouldn&rsquo;t it be funny if when we met up, u were like totally disappointed with me?</p>
<p>buxomprincess: how do u mean?</p>
<p>enigmaboy: like if some of the things i said about myself weren&rsquo;t exactly accurate &#8212; wouldn&rsquo;t that be hilarious?</p>
<p>buxomprincess:&nbsp; haha i guess</p>
<p>And you should print this conversation out, so that when she doesn&rsquo;t find your shortcomings so hilarious in person, you can show it to her and say, &ldquo;See? This is funny! You said so yourself!&rdquo;</p>
<p>Now this isn&rsquo;t to say that I recommend going beyond a purely electronic relationship. In fact, I discourage abandoning a fulfilling online relationship for what will surely be a mutually unfulfilling physical relationship. Because online relationships are convenient&mdash;you never have to leave your living room, never have to shave, never have to wash your clothing; they involve fewer messy attachments than regular relationships&mdash;if you&rsquo;re tired of a girl, you can just change your screen name, or start visiting a different Gilmore Girls forum; they&rsquo;re cheaper&mdash;for example, I gave my online girlfriend six dollars through PayPal for our one-year anniversary; and they completely avoid the oppressive sexual shame and physical abuse that are such integral parts of all healthy regular relationships.</p>
<p>So meet a real girl if you must. But if you can handle crippling physical loneliness, then stick with online relationships. I think you&rsquo;ll find them very unhumiliating! And in my opinion, that&rsquo;s all a guy can ask for.</p>
<p>Happy typing!</p>
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		<title>LOL: Not So Funny After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/Rask+Balavoine">Rask Balavoine</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOL hasn't always indicated hilarity. Far from it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL is the well-established acronym indicating an amused response to something communicated in a text message or email. However it had a life of its own long before the advent of electronic communication, and still causes momentary discombobulation when used in communicating with people of a certain generation, especially in Ireland.</p>
<p>One area of life in which the letters have long been used to indicate something far from jocularity is in the area of accommodation for elderly people, Nursing Homes, Retirement Homes and the like. In these institutions staff members often use the acronym to refer to &ldquo;Little Old Ladies&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Staying in Ireland, and going back a few hundred years in time, LOL has long stood for &ldquo;Loyal Orange Lodge&rdquo;. The Religious/Political/Paramilitary &ldquo;Orange Order&rdquo; is a body existing to protect and further the cause of a Protestant understanding of the Christian Faith and the maintenance of the Union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Order has branches in all parts of Ireland and these are known as Lodges (<strong>L</strong>oyal <strong>O</strong>range <strong>L</strong>odges), and they don&#8217;t cause anyone to Laugh Out Loud, especially if they are neither Protestant nor Unionist.</p>
<p>LOLs also pop up in Scotland, Canada, USA, Australia and even in India, founded no doubt, by loyal subjects who don&#8217;t really want to live in the blessed Kingdom.</p>
<p>The members of the Lodges demonstrate regularly. These demonstrations take the form of  a military-style march along main roads by hundreds of members making a nuisance of themselves and preventing people from going where they want when they want. They dress up in black suits, bowler hats, and they wear orange sashes round their necks. Bands kitted out in colourful uniforms usually precede the marchers, with pipes, accordions and drums. They often play Christian hymns as they lead their suited brethren. It&#8217;s all a bit dark and menacing but part of the culture, and if you take it a certain way you probably would laugh out loud.</p>
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		<title>10 Humorous Mouse Pads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/Nelson+Doyle">Nelson Doyle</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laughter is the best medicine to lift up your day. Mouse pads are an effective vehicle for delivering healthy doses of humor each time you sit down at your computer.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These &ldquo;10 Humorous Mouse Pads&rdquo; will deliver the humor that you have been searching for.</p>
<h3>Golfing Humor Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/longstraightjpg_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.bcdgolf.com/Images/LongStraightJPG.jpg" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>&ldquo;Long and Straight and a Little to the Right&rdquo; by Brett Cameron Doyle a best-selling author and cartoonist, provides us with a little golf humor for the desktop. Learn more about B. C. Doyle <a href="http://www.bcgolf.com" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<h3>Teacher&#8217;s Aid Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/thelecturemousepad_1.gif" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.defdesigns.com/TheLectureMousePad.gif" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>Who said that you can&#8217;t teach an old dog new tricks? Just don&#8217;t point your finger in the face of a hungry dog or if you just polished off a can of Vienna Sausages. You get the point and if not, you do have five other fingers, two pinkies and two thumbs to get your point across the next time around.</p>
<h3>HAY! Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/haymouse_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.gonecat.com/images/haymouse.jpg" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>&rdquo;HAY! is for horses. Aren&#8217;t you glad that you are a jackass?&rdquo; This is tribute to my granddaddy, because he use to say this all of the time when I would visit him at his house. The mouse pad isn&#8217;t all that humorous, but that old thyme saying is at least to me.</p>
<h3>Punk Poodles Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/acafepresspunkpoodles_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://ricklondon.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/a-cafepress-punk-poodles.jpg" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>Stray dogs really do go bad as this Homeland Security surveillance clearly proves.</p>
<h3>Star Trek&#8217;s Dirty Little Secret Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/aprintfectionkirkjohn_1.gif" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://londonstimestees.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/a-printfection-kirkjohn.gif" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>What happens behind close doors, stay behind close doors. Captain Kirk&#8217;s dirty little secret is revealed.</p>
<h3>No More Confusion Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/pad20_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.atlasmousepads.com/Pad-20.jpg" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>This is the perfect mouse pad for people who just need a user&#8217;s guide to get started using their new mouse pad.</p>
<h3>Cat and Mouse</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/designmyworldjerryrevengemousepad_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://fashiontribes.typepad.com/main/images/design_my_world_jerry_revenge_mousepad.jpg" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>This is a cute spin on mouse pad humor, but I suspect that some people just will not get it.</p>
<h3>PAC-Man Humor Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/pacmanbucklebelt_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.popgadget.net/images/pacmanbuckle-belt.jpg" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>Anyone who has ever played PAC-Man should get this joke. Of course, it is usually the other way around after realizing that after all of the clever maneuvers have only caused your PAC-man to become cornered.</p>
<h3>Mouse Trap Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/mousetrapmousepad_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.geekalerts.com/u/mousetrap-mousepad.jpg" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know, but for some reason I find some humor in this mouse pad. It looks so real that I would probably only use it as part of a practical joke at the office &#8211; I really never liked the job anyways.</p>
<h3>Custer&#8217;s Last Mouse Pad</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/24/custerslastmousepad_1.jpg" alt="" /><br /><a href="http://www.prweb.com/prfiles/2007/03/22/513644/CustersLastMousePad.jpg" target="_blank">image source</a></p>
<p>General Custer&#8217;s last stand didn&#8217;t go exactly as it was planned as the history books have recorded it and now, this mouse pad reminds of us that things in our lives could be a lot worse.</p>
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		<title>A Short Illustrated History of the Nerd</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/R+J+Evans">R J Evans</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where did the nerd originate, both as a word an individual and, possibly, a species? What were the original societal perceptions of the nerd? How have these changed over the decades? Enter the world of the nerd and discover for yourself this fascinating and light hearted illustrated history of the  origin of the species. Darwin, eat your heart out.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>One Last Jobs</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/1_2.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7950449%40N03/1172090604/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p>First we need to address the very term &#8220;nerd&#8221;.  What exactly is it?  We know that it usually has derogatory connotations (though that may be changing, see &#8220;Nerd Pride&#8221; below).  Usually a nerd was someone whose life passions were not shared by the majority of the population.  Their heroes were not shared by the ubiquitous &#8220;man in the street&#8221; (who would simply not get the joke in the picture above).  In fact most people traditionally saw the interests of a nerd as strange and somewhat weird.  However, with the advent of the internet, nerds have increased in number exponentially.  The nerd herd has arrived.</p>
<h3>Drag and Drop</h3>
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<p>Often at High School nerds were partly classified by their disinterest in sport and their acquisition of knowledge considered intellectual and somewhat esoteric by other student (who usually didn&#8217;t know what esoteric and intellectual mean, but hey).  Rather than engaging in social activities the nerd could often be a loner.  Occasionally they were lucky enough to meet others of their genus &#8211; Nerdus Sapiens &#8211; and were allowed to take over a table in the cafeteria.  This was not, as some would think, an attempt by the majority to include the small nerd herd.  Rather, it was a form of deliberate and insidious social exclusion.</p>
<h3>Disrespect to Nerds</h3>
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<p>As such nerds were often considered outcasts by &#8220;normal&#8221; members of society and the term, when used, was an insult.  Such was the ferocity of public opinion against the nerd that slights against the herd were, for example, casually used as cheap marketing ploys (see above).  Replace the word with a derogatory label based on gender, color or religion and you can see just how offensive the above advertisement truly was.</p>
<h3>Nerd Sex</h3>
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<p>Nerds had therefore to cultivate their own language (see above) which could be understood only by other members of the herd.  A rebuse interpretation of the above would be &ldquo;As you get to the University of Chicago, the amount of sex expected approaches zero.&rdquo;  If you failed to snigger at that or had to wait for the &#8220;translation&#8221; then you probably do not fit in to the nerd category.  Many people would not accept the truth that nerds did, in fact, engage in the Wild Thing and until recently the nerd was often regarded as something as if not more virginal than a certain icon of Christianity.</p>
<h3>The Nerd of July</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_4.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelatacker/213708621/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p>Nerds celebrate occasions just like any other substrata of society.  They do make a special effort to make it their own, of course, but can often be misled and occasionally ignorant of the history of their own kind.  To trace the origins of the word we must pay homage to that wordsmith of wordsmiths, Dr Seuss.  His 1950 masterpiece &#8220;If I Ran the Zoo&#8221; contains the first printed instance of the word.  Gerald McGrew, the narrator, maintains he would collect &ldquo;a Nerkle, a Nerd and a Seersucker too&rdquo; to be housed in his imaginary zoo. That was way back in 1950.  As such, &#8220;If  I Ran the Zoo&#8221; can be seen as the Holy Book of Nerd-dom.</p>
<h3>The Nerd Bathroom</h3>
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<p>It is of little surprise that most nerds are unaware of their own history.  After all, their obsessive behavior is such that they have been know to adapt rooms in their domiciles in order to pursue interests that many would find unusual or even unsettling (see above).  Dr Seuss had no idea what he had started and soon the word spread to wider (adult) society.</p>
<h3>Nerd Army</h3>
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<p>This was the beginning of the appearance of the nerd as a specific genus.  It is strange that perhaps there had been no previous discovery of the word (though there was &ldquo;bluestocking&rdquo; for the female of the species way back in the eighteenth century).  However, in 1951, Newsweek magazine pointed out the widespread use of the word in Michigan in the country known as the United States of America.  The Army of Nerd was beginning to burgeon.</p>
<h3>Nature or Nurture?</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_7.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/44476338%40N00/407139912/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p>The debate still rages as to whether nerds are born or are, rather, the result of some aspect of their upbringing.  Many illiterates have produced nerd offspring and are unable to pinpoint what happened to make their child a nerd.  Some blame themselves and they often create support groups in places such as New York and San Francisco. That is leaping forward a little in time, however.  By the early years of the 60s, the term had gone viral and appeared throughout the USA in television, radio and other media.  The word was reported in far away places such as Scotland (where people have red hair and strange accents). Globalization of the brand was not far off.</p>
<h3>Nerd Pride</h3>
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<p>Nerd Pride was not yet born, however.  It would not be until the late 1980s that Pride and Power would become part of the nerd lexicon and it would be the new century before it was formally celebrated.  Back in the 60s the term still meant something ever so slightly different. The nerd had yet to step, like a shy and nervous gazelle, in to the full light of societal inspection.  Instead, the word simply meant someone who was dull.  Other synonyms at the time would include &#8220;drip&#8221; or &#8220;square&#8221;.  Man.</p>
<h3>Nerd Day Cake</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_9.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chantastic/1590993819/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p>It was the decade of the seventies, one of grace, delicacy and high culture, where the word truly came of age.  The decade that gave us The Osmond Phenomenon, Wonder Woman on TV and Gerald Ford as President also brought the word nerd to maturity.  Social ineptitude, overt bookishness and an extreme interest in Star Trek came to embody the word.  Or vice versa.  It was a strange decade.</p>
<h3>Nerds Give the Finger</h3>
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<p>For a long time, for over a decade, the term nerd was not one that anyone &#8211; even the true nerd &#8211; would wish to have thrown towards them.  Nerd Pride was not even nascent and the finger of nerd was spotty, bespectacled and book-toothed.  The seventies, THE decade of the stereotype, saw the TV show Happy Days popularize the term like never before, even if its use was not in a fifties fashion (the decade in which the show was set). The Fonz, played by Henry Winkler, is responsible for the misappropriation of the term. May he burn in Hell.</p>
<h3>Motivational Poster Nerds</h3>
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<p>Nerds today should be aware, as they go about their way, of the debate that still surrounds the origin of the term.  Many people claim, rightly or wrongly, that they originated it.  Science Fiction author Philip K Dick claimed it as his own in 1973, even though he used the alternative spelling &#8220;nurd&#8221;.  This was later discovered to be untrue, having appeared in that form as far before as 1965 in a student magazine from Troy, New York.  Something of a shame for nerd culture, as only Mr Dick could possibly surpass Dr Seuss in terms of sheer kudos as &#8220;High Originator of the Term&#8221;.</p>
<h3>Nerd Tattoo</h3>
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<p>Although never recorded on paper (an old fashioned medium for education), many maintain that the word derived from the word &#8220;drunk&#8221; spelled backwards.  A &#8220;knurd&#8221; would be someone who chose to study and be conscientious in their pursuit of academic achievement rather than being a hairy beer-swilling jock (whose very presence at a seat of academic learning makes them a walking talking oxymoron).  Another version of the word, &#8220;gnurd&#8221; was widespread during the early seventies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  MIT is often considered to be a kind of beacon for the global nerd diaspora, so this may well have some truth in it.</p>
<h3>Nerd Pet</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_13.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lockergnome/34588249/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p>Further etymological debate abounds.  Some say that the word&#8217;s origins are inextricably linked with the popular 1930s &#8211; 1950s ventriloquist Edgar Bergen.  One of his dummies was called Mortimer Snerd and was a very dull witted chap.  This is fairly close to the original meaning of the word however it was normally associated with boring rather than stupid.  Others speculate that the word was adapted from the 1940s widespread term &#8220;nert&#8221;.  This was itself born of the word &#8220;nut&#8221; and meant someone who was stupid, crazy or both.  This is improbable.</p>
<h3>Spell-It-Out Nerd</h3>
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<p>Thanks to the decade that was the seventies, the stereotypical image of the nerd was truly on the rise.  In TV and film, the nerd is mostly presented as a white male (though in the UK&#8217;s &#8220;The IT Team&#8221; one is Black British) with skin problems, braces and baggy trousers and thick lensed glasses.  Some linguists posited the idea of the nerd as &#8220;hyper-white&#8221; as the depiction of nerds often involved their usage of arcane and old fashioned language.  This supposed rejection of African-American oral culture through something approaching linguistic fascism by the nerd herd has, as an idea, been supremely trounced by the inexorable rise of the nerd of color in the nineties and noughties. The rainbow nerd is here to stay.</p>
<h3>Nerd Art</h3>
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<p>Typical of the nerd is their obliviousness to negative perceptions of them by others.  When their interests lie in subjects that are of mystery or little interest to others, this was often translated in to disdain and a deliberate attempt to socially exclude them.  This disdain has been typically turned on its head as the herd community reached critical mass in the early 1990s.  As technology, mathematics and science become more pivotal each year to the survival of Homo sapiens, so the nerds have increasingly become self aware of their own importance to the continuation and constitution of society.  Nerd Pride was born. The nerd is King.</p>
<h3>Nerd Love</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_16.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/haykello/2186258090/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_17.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideaconstructor/100633212/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p>It would be remiss not to mention Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate and Doctor Who here, pivotal as they are to nerd culture.  They are the holy grail of nerd existence and those fully wishing to understand the herd should take time out to study these TV shows in depth.  Secondary study can also be found in role-playing games, notably Dungeons and Dragons.  Tertiary academic pursuit in the understanding of the nerd should, necessarily involve Comic Book 101 and Trading Cards 101. Without a full and proper knowledge of these three vital strands of their culture, the nerd can never be properly understood or appreciated.</p>
<h3>Nerdtivity</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_18.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/terribleminds/2093300456/" target="_blank">Image source</a></strong></p>
<p>The new century has brought with it new demands and those often best equipped to deal have been the nerds.  The era of the nerd is upon us and the tenor of the age is one of celebration, almost, rather than of ostracization.  This is the dawning of the age of nerd-quarius.  The computer and internet have helped in this and many nerds have accumulated wealth beyond the dreams of avarice as a result. The majority of parents do not now despair if their offspring show signs of nascent nerdiness.  Rather, many see the nerd as intelligent, interesting and socially acceptable.  Many women see the male nerd as excellent marriage material, due as much to his genetics as his wealth.  This evolution in attitudes has happened at the same time as a weakening in the societal emphasis on the negative side of nerd-dom.  TV shows such as &#8220;Ugly Betty&#8221; and &#8220;Chuck&#8221; show the nerd in a positive &#8211; even sexually appealing light.</p>
<h3>The Nerd Evolution Timeline</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_19.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/david_han/623205062/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p>So, we come to the age of the nerds.  Darwin versus the Bible is an irrelevance to most nerds as they believe in an alternative evolution (see above).  More and more, society in general believes that it is not a bad idea, after all, to be intellectual.  Kids&#8217; TV shows often encourage young viewers no to care about the anti-intellectual peer pressure of latter day Biffs.  Slashdot even has a tagline directed at the community &#8211; &ldquo;News for nerds.  Stuff that matters.&rdquo;  Incorrectly attributed to Bill Gates, the quote &#8220;Be nice to nerds. Chances are you will end up working for one&#8221; has become common currency.  There is even, in Spain, a for real Nerd Pride celebration which since 2006 has been celebrated on May 25.</p>
<h3>Nerd in ad kitchen</h3>
<p><img src="http://images.stanzapub.com/readers/2008/08/19/280157_20.jpg" alt="" /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/banana2000/1640529948/" target="_blank">Image Source</a></strong></p>
<p>Of course, all this means that there are now huge amounts of people who pretend to be nerds.  This can be seen in the rise of Nerdcore as a whole.  However, a word of warning to the pseudo-nerd.  The real deal can sniff you out as an imposter immediately.  If you borrow the image, concept and culture of the nerd so you can stand out as an individual, remember that this is a contradiction in terms to the Nerd de Verity.  As such you will be shunned on discovery!</p>
<p>So, the nerd has come a long way in the sixty or so years since the word made its first appearance.  What the next sixty years holds is anyone&#8217;s guess, but it promises to be more than interesting.  Where the nerd herd goes next may well determine the future progress of humanity.  Only time &#8211; and the internet &#8211; will tell.<a target="_blank"></a></p>
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		<title>My Top 12 Spam Sender Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like most people, I used to hate spam. I&#8217;d lie awake at night calculating how many hours of my life I&#8217;d lost trawling through the &#8216;bulk folder&#8217; of my email account because I didn&#8217;t dare &#8217;select all&#8217; and &#8216;delete&#8217;, thinking, &#8220;You never know, there could be a legitimate email in there somewhere, lost, lonely, confused, surrounded by an unsavoury and motley swell of &#8216;enlarging products&#8217;, knock-off Rolex watches and Gucci shoes, $20 PhDs, not to mention attractive, young Russian au pairs desperate for my company.&#8221;</p>
<p>Anyway, I used to hate spam. But, after a while, you begin to realise that some things cannot be fought against, some things are inevitable. Death, taxes, another series of Big Brother and, now, spam.</p>
<p>And so, I have learned to love spam.<br />The &#8217;sender&#8217; names alone are reason enough to rejoice. So, here, for your amusement and because I&#8217;m at a bit of a loose end right now, are my top 12 spam &#8217;sender&#8217; names.</p>
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<li>Filbert Ethelbert. The parents of this poor unfortunate clearly had a thing for Berts. Sesame Street fans, possibly.</li>
<li>Bill Till. There&#8217;s a time and place for rhymes. Filling out a birth certificate is not one of those times.</li>
<li>Granny Just. Sounds like a geriatric vigilante. &#8220;Go ahead, punk, help me across the road.&#8221;</li>
<li>Eal Sph. In case you&#8217;re wondering, the surname is pronounced, erm, &#8217;sph&#8217;, I suppose.</li>
<li>Dwain Swane. See 2.</li>
<li>Krogh. A good drinking buddy of Conan the Barbarian.</li>
<li>Margery Justice. The prim and starchy, middle-aged assistant of Granny Just.</li>
<li>Dusti Debra. Debra must spend an awful lot of time in libraries. Not moving. An awful lot of time.</li>
<li>Bald Jackie. &#8220;Sorry, which one is &#8211; oh, yeah, there he is.&#8221;</li>
<li>Bendicity Sangbang. I just don&#8217;t know where to begin with this one.</li>
<li>Bald Septimus. &#8220;Sorry, which of these Roman centurions is &#8211; oh, yeah, there he is.&#8221;</li>
<li>Austin Lung.  International Respiratory Organ of Mystery.</li>
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		<title>Tetris: Not Just a Game, But a Cultural Icon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/R+J+Evans">R J Evans</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you know when something has become part of our popular culture? Usually when it evolves, spreads, and appears in different ways. See how Tetris has become one of the biggest cultural icons of our time.]]></description>
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<h3>Office Building Tetris</h3>
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<p>Hera an entire office building in downtown Tokyo is converted in to a giant game of Tetris.  An absolutely amazing feat, it must have involved hundreds and hundreds of office workers with split-second timing!  Seriously thought, the ability to programme an office&#8217;s lights led to this fantastic display.  A serious Tetris aficionado must have been the mastermind behind this!</p>
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<h3>Tetris as Performance Art</h3>
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<p>OK, so the &ldquo;voiceover&rdquo; is slightly annoying here, but you have to give it to the people who set this up &#8211; it must have taken a heck of a lot of organizing!  Best probably watched with the sound turned down unless the compulsion to go out and find the &ldquo;voices&rdquo; involved and tear out their throats becomes too much!</p>
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<h3>Tetris Ninjas</h3>
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<p>Although shot from afar (probably for the best) this video shows that Tetris can indeed be translated in to all forms of art &#8211; here we have miming &#8220;ninjas&#8221; performing the game, much to the adulation of the audience!</p>
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<h3>Tetris for the Idiot Show Host</h3>
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<p>This will amuse you &#8211; and you don&#8217;t even have to speak Japanese to get it, such is the visual appeal of Tetris.  A Japanese show host decides to show off his Tetris skills but at each level the game conspires against him and he has a hard job keeping up with the technology!</p>
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<h3>Tetris Goes Euro Trash</h3>
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<p>Ah, these crazy Europeans, what won&#8217;t they do to the art of music?  Here we see the Tetris music given the full Euro Trash treatment.  The most annoying thing about this song is, like the original game music (itself a rip off), it will stay in your head for hours, if not days afterwards.</p>
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<h3>Tetris Versus Stickman</h3>
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<p>Just as Alien Versus Predator was just a matter of time, so it had to be that the Stickman and Tetris at some point had to cross paths.  Who (or what!) will come out on top when the Stickman finds himself in a game of Tetris?</p>
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<h3>Glass Bottle Themed Tetris</h3>
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<p>Just for the sheer silliness of it, this video deserves inclusion here!  The three madcap young folks certainly know how to get the party started!  I can just imagine their friends imploring them to do it again and again.  Excuse me a second, a gentleman in white coat wants a word with me.</p>
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<h3>Japanese Game Show Tetris</h3>
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<p>Ah Japanese game shows, what would we do without them?  Here, the contestants have to play human Tetris and fit themselves through the provided holes in order to avoid a soaking.  Not as extreme by any means as any number of Japanese game shows, this is still an insight in to the psyche of the Japanese nation.  And you thought Yoko Ono was the exception?</p>
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<h3>Tetris the Movie</h3>
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<p>No, surely not, you have to be kidding, right?  Set in the future when Tetris has evolved in to a mega game where the shapes are &#8220;driven&#8221; by humans, a man sets out to avenge his professional Tetris playing brother&#8217;s death.  I have no idea if this is a spoof or not.  I really hope it is!</p>
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<h3>Wedding Cake Tetris</h3>
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<p>Some people are so obsessed by the game that when they get married their cake is in the shape of, you guessed it.  It takes all types to make a world, as my grandmother used to say when confronted by things and people she did not or could not understand!</p>
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		<title>Five Videos That You Have to Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/Andrew+P">Andrew P</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is cluttered with sites like YouTube, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, just to name a few. Many of the videos on their claim to be the best, the funniest, even the stupidest, and sometimes the coolest. But really, here are some of the best, the funniest, the stupidest, and the coolest, videos you might have ever come across.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even though i mentioned numerous video sites, I will only be focusing on YouTube. Because, the world revolves around YouTube doesn&#8217;t it? So, before diving into the deep depths of video, I will just give you a quick history lesson on YouTube. No, YouTube wasn&#8217;t started in dinosaur times or in the middle ages, but still, why cant we get a history lesson on it?</p>
<p>YouTube was started by 3 former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Before being employed PayPal, Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Chen and Karim studied computer science together at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. So thats our brief history lesson. Now time for the fun part, the videos.</p>
<p>I am going to write these videos in a random order, so if a video is first, then it is just the first that I wrote down, im not saying its better or anything. So, here we go.</p>
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<h3>Rejected Cartoons</h3>
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<p>Yes, I know it&#8217;s childish, and pathetic, and cheesy. But at the same time it is dangerously funny! Poisoning the mind of young children, oh, WHAT FUN!!!</p>
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<h3><a href="http://www.filmcow.com/eduardospatulahands.html" target="_blank">Eduardo Spatulahands&nbsp;</a></h3>
<p>The miraculous, breath-taking, adventure of Eduardo as he gets tricked by some evil guy into drinking &#8220;un-poisoned&#8221; Mountain Dew. Now, he must live his live with SPATULAS FOR HANDS!!! (Please note, the title &#8220;Eduardo Spatulahands&#8221; was PROBABLY copied from Edward Scissorhands, but I didn&#8217;t make the movie so don&#8217;t sue me).</p>
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<h3><a href="http://www.filmcow.com/ferrets.html" target="_blank">Ferrets</a></h3>
<p>Makes you think about the good things of live in this cheesy video.</p>
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<h3>Crazy McDonald&nbsp;</h3>
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<p>I&#8217;m scared of McDonald&#8217;s now!</p>
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<h3>Amazing Accidents</h3>
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<p>Don&#8217;t ask me how they happened, just watch and enjoy&#8230;.</p>
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<p>Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed some of these videos, they are to be enjoyed you know. I will be writing soon, and they will be coming to a computer near you! So till then, breathe on!</p>
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		<title>The Top 10 Reasons to Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><a target="_blank" href="http://www.triond.com/users/Juliane+Elliott">Juliane Elliott</a></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever need a valid excuse, er, reason to be so addicted to writing your blog? Here are some reasons that might make you chuckle.]]></description>
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<li>Writing blogs will give you a legitimate reason to be on line all the time. Just keep the window to blogger.com available so you can quickly change screens from Yahoo Games Pool! or Perez (&#8221;Gossip Queen&#8221;-not Paris&#8217;s sibling) Hilton websites. </li>
<li>When friends ask you how you spent your weekend you can sound like a serious writer when you respond &#8220;Oh, I spent some time on my blog site this weekend.&#8221; Instead of admitting how many hours of couch potato television you watched while the front lawn only grew longer and the paint on the front of your house chipped a little bit more. </li>
<li>It gives you practice using your keyboarding skills. &#8220;The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy-ass dog.&#8221; This might instead become &#8220;Today, I got out of bed and shuttled to the toilet where I sat down&#8230;.&#8221; Interesting huh? </li>
<li>It forces you to learn all you can about attracting an audience. I could even put pretty, pretty pictures on my blog-but I have not learned that yet! So, I resort to describing every ridiculous mundane task I did today. (See Reason #3) </li>
<li>What the hell else are you going to do anyway? Christmas is over and you can&#8217;t shop because you have no money left and the teenagers took both your cars and you are stuck home alone! </li>
<li>You get that feeling you sometimes get about winning the lottery. Sure there might be one in a billion chance that Oprah might be sitting home (but not because she is out of money or has teenagers who took her car-some other reason), searching blogs for writers she will make into the next James Frye.(&#8221;Yes this really happened to me and it is fiction&#8221;-a new genre!) </li>
<li>You believe that the world really gives a damn about your poor, pathetic and boring little life. Oh PLEEEAASE! </li>
<li>You want to scream at the world and every living thing in it &#8220;I am here, I am important, I matter.&#8221; Then you remember the Kansas song &#8220;Dust in the Wind.&#8221; &#8220;Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.&#8221; and you want to fling yourself off the nearest balcony but you are afraid of heights. </li>
<li>You are so over meeting people in chat rooms and making up an identity. You have tired of being Hot_Sexy_Mama, who is a former Playboy bunny, Rhode Scholar and developer of a cure for hunger in Africa, (SEND THEM FOOD!) You decide it is time to do something real on the Internet. </li>
<li>A blog takes you out of your everyday hood and places you squarely in the middle of cyberspace. You thought <br />your hood was full of dark alleys and menacing characters? Try this hood where you are walking alone in a hostile cyberspace without your can of mace or your machete. <br />You are exposing all your private words in a most public place. What a thrill, what a rush! In the movie &#8220;The Jerk&#8221; Steve Martin&#8217;s character said, &#8220;The new phone book is here and I am SOMEBODY now!&#8221; Blog on!</li>
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