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		<title>Tim Minchin &#8211; Pope Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ya&#8230; not safe for work but it sums it up for me. As always Tim Minchin provides some awesome social commentary.</p>
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Lyrics:<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucker<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, he&#8217;s a fucking motherfucker<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the fucking fucker<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, he&#8217;s a total fucking fucker<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucker<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, fucking fuck the motherfucker<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, fuck the motherfucking pope<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, and fuck you motherfucker<br />
If you think that motherfucker is sacred<br />
If you cover for another motherfucker who&#8217;s a kiddie fucker<br />
Fuck you, you&#8217;re no better than the motherfucking rapist<br />
And if you don&#8217;t like the swearing that this motherfucker forced from me<br />
And reckon it shows moral or intellectual paucity<br />
Then fuck you, motherfucker, this is language one employs<br />
When one is fucking cross about fuckers fucking boys<br />
I don&#8217;t give a fuck if calling the pope a motherfucker<br />
Means you unthinkingly brand me an unthinking apostate<br />
This has naught to do with other fucking godly motherfuckers<br />
I&#8217;m not interested right now in fucking scriptural debate<br />
There are other fucking songs and there are other fucking ways<br />
I&#8217;ll be a religious apologist on other fucking days<br />
But the fact remains if you protect a single kiddie fucker<br />
Then pope or prince or plumber, you&#8217;re a fucking motherfucker<br />
You see I don&#8217;t give a fuck what any other motherfucker<br />
Believes about Jesus and his motherfucking mother<br />
I&#8217;ve no problem with the spiritual beliefs of all these fuckers<br />
While those beliefs don&#8217;t impact on the happiness of others<br />
But if you build your church on claims of fucking moral authority<br />
At which threats of hell impose it on others in society<br />
Then you, you motherfuckers, can expect some fucking wrath<br />
When it turns out you&#8217;ve been fucking us in our motherfucking asses<br />
So fuck the motherfucker, and fuck you, motherfucker<br />
If you&#8217;re still a motherfucking papist<br />
If he covered for a single motherfucker who&#8217;s a kiddie fucker<br />
Fuck the motherfucker, he&#8217;s as evil as the rapist<br />
And if you look into your motherfucking heart and tell me true<br />
If this motherfucking stupid fucking song offended you<br />
With its filthy fucking language, and its fucking disrespect<br />
If it made you feel angry go ahead and write a letter<br />
But if you find me more offensive than the fucking possibility<br />
The pope protected priests when they were getting fucking fiddly<br />
Then listen to me, motherfucker, this here is a fact:<br />
You are just as morally misguided as that motherfucking, power hungry, self-aggrandized bigot in the stupid fucking hat</p>
     

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		<title>Is Religion Out of Date?</title>
		<link>http://www.paulspoerry.com/2009/12/27/is-religion-out-of-date/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[29% of Americans say religion ‘out of date’ A Gallup poll of Americans&#8217; attitudes towards religion released on Christmas Eve found significant recent increases in those responding either that they have no religious preference, that religion is not very important in their lives, or that they believe religion &#8220;is largely old-fashioned or out of date.&#8221; Only


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><span style="font-weight: normal;">29% of Americans say religion ‘out of date’</span></h2>
<p>A <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/124793/This-Christmas-78-Americans-Identify-Christian.aspx">Gallup poll</a> of Americans&#8217; attitudes towards religion released on Christmas Eve found significant recent increases in those responding either that they have no religious preference, that religion is not very important in their lives, or that they believe religion &#8220;is largely old-fashioned or out of date.&#8221;</p>
<p>Only 78% of Americans now identify as Christian, while 22% describe their religious preference as either &#8220;other&#8221; or &#8220;none.&#8221;</p>
<p>Most of these changes have occurred since 2000 and represent the first significant shift since a sharp decline in religious adherence during the 1970s. Over the last nine years, the number with no religious preference has grown from a level of around 8% to 13%. The number for whom religion is not very important has climbed from just over 10% to 19%. And the number who believe religion is out of date and has no answers for today&#8217;s problems has jumped from slightly more than 20% to 29%.</p>
<p>These changes do not appear to have affected the majority of Americans who still consider religion &#8220;very important&#8221; in their own lives. That figure remains at 56% &#8212; roughly the same as for the last 35 years &#8212; while 57% still say religion has answers to most of the world&#8217;s problems.</p>
<p>The biggest difference is that in the late 1990s, up to 68% of Americans though religion had answers to the world&#8217;s problems &#8212; even though only about 60% said religion was personally very important to them. It seems as though over the last ten years a significant number may have gone from believing that religion is a positive factor in the world, even if they&#8217;re not particularly religious themselves, to seeing religion in a far more skeptical or even negative light.</p>
<p>Of interest is those claiming &#8216;No Religion&#8217; make up the third largest group in the United States.</p>
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		<title>Sell The Vatican, Feed The World [Video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Sunday &#8211; Blow Your Mind &#8211; Forget the Universe and check out the Multiverse</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok Granted the entire scientific community isn&#8217;t 100% on board with all of this but it&#8217;s still fascinating. Dr. Michio Kaku is fascinating to listen to&#8230;</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" title="GmailGadget" src="http://www.paulspoerry.com/wp-content/uploads/desktop.google.com/plugins/images/GmailGadget.gif" alt="" width="182" height="202" />If you want access to your Gmail from your desktop without running an email client or without using the web based Gmail, now you can download the Gmail Google Desktop gadget. First things first, you need the free Google Desktop software installed. After that you can dock your Gmail gadget to the desktop to read, search, send, and star messages. The gadget has the same keyboard shortcuts that web-based Gmail offers and you can even open multiple instances of the gadget and log each into a different Gmail account. The Gmail gadget is a free download and works in conjunction with Google Desktop 5 for Windows only.</p>
<p>You can grab the gadget from <a href="http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/gmailgadget.html" target="_blank">Google Gadgets</a>.</p>
     

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		<title>GMail officially gets themes</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Gmail" rel="homepage" href="http://gmail.com">Gmail</a> fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven&#8217;t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we&#8217;re launching today, there&#8217;s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There&#8217;s even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers &#8212; it&#8217;s not exactly practical, but it&#8217;s great for testing out your geek cred. We&#8217;ve also done a minor facelift to Gmail&#8217;s default look to make it crisper and cleaner &#8212; you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.</p>
<p>Note that so far this has not shown up on the Google Apps version GMail. Bummer&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Jesus vs. McCain/Palin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this over at dmiessler.com and it&#8217;s hilarious in light of the whole &#8220;socialist&#8221; push the McCain campaign is waging against Obama. Jesus was too liberal and socialist&#8230; he couldn&#8217;t win against John McCain. No related posts.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I found this over at <a href="http://dmiessler.com/blog/jesus-vs-mccainpalin" target="_blank">dmiessler.com</a> and it&#8217;s hilarious in light of the whole &#8220;socialist&#8221; push the McCain campaign is waging against Obama. Jesus was too liberal and socialist&#8230; he couldn&#8217;t win against John McCain.</p>
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		<title>Gmail SMS pulled and delayed</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bummer. If you were raring to play around with <a href="http://www.paulspoerry.com/2008/10/31/gmail-gets-sms-text-messaging/">the new send-to-SMS chat feature in Gmail Labs</a>, you&#8217;ll have to wait a little longer.</p>
<p>On Friday, one of Gmail&#8217;s product managers, Leo Dirac, posted on the official Gmail blog that a last-minute glitch has resulted in the feature <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/almost-new-in-labs-sms-text-messaging.html" target="_blank">being pulled back for further testing</a>. The glitch, which Dirac says should take about two weeks to fix, would keep the two-way communication feature from turning on all the way, keeping replies from making it back to you.</p>
<p>When the process is working properly you&#8217;re able to send SMS contacts a message just like you would if they were online. The system would also keep their responses in the same chat window, making it a simple resource for staying in touch even when you or your contacts are not online at the same time.</p>
     

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		<title>GMail gets SMS (text messaging)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulSpoerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOIOIOING! Gmail can now send text message chats to mobile phones using the built-in Chat feature. Right now it&#8217;s only available via the &#8220;GMail Labs&#8221;. To turn it on, go to the Labs tab within Gmailâ€™s settings. If you donâ€™t see the option right away, check back later (it wasn&#8217;t there for me yet) â€”


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BOIOIOING! Gmail can now send text message chats to mobile phones using the built-in Chat feature. Right now it&#8217;s only available via the &#8220;GMail Labs&#8221;. To turn it on, go to the Labs tab within Gmailâ€™s settings. If you donâ€™t see the option right away, check back later (it wasn&#8217;t there for me yet) â€” Gmail product manager Keith Coleman, who demonstrated the new feature for Webmonkey, says it will be made available in Labs to all Gmail users Thursday evening.<img class="alignright" title="smschat" src="http://www.paulspoerry.com/wp-content/uploads/howto.wired.com/mediawiki/images/SMS-chat.png" alt="" width="222" height="213" /></p>
<p>Once the option is turned on, start typing a phone number into Chatâ€™s search box and youâ€™ll see the option to send an SMS.</p>
<p>If you already have your friendâ€™s phone number stored in your Google accountâ€™s contacts, try searching for them by name. When your friendâ€™s name appears in the drop-down list of contacts, youâ€™ll see an option to send them an SMS. You can also hover over or click on anyone in your Chat buddy list to send them an SMS.</p>
<p>The first time you send a text message, it will appear on the personâ€™s phone as coming from a number in the 406 area code. Google has made several thousands of these numbers available for Gmail users, and once a number is associated with your account, all of the text messages you send through Gmail will come from that number.</p>
<p>The 406 number works both ways, so your friend can reply to you via text message. Also, your friend can save that number in their phone as belonging to you, and they can even use it to initiate new chats with you.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/OMG!_Gmail_Adds_SMS_Chat" target="_blank">WebMonkey</a></p>
     

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		<title>GMail&#8217;s Pile of Shit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok so don&#8217;t read to much into that title. I&#8217;m in love with GMail. No really, I LOVES IT. They seem to be cranking out new features regularly (comeon guys fix up the contacts section tho!) like Mail Goggles and Canned Response. Recently released is emoticons for your email (ya&#8230; I could have done without


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ok so don&#8217;t read to much into that title. I&#8217;m in love with GMail. No really, I LOVES IT. They seem to be cranking out new features regularly (comeon guys fix up the contacts section tho!) like <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-stop-sending-mail-you-later.html">Mail Goggles</a> and <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-in-labs-canned-responses.html">Canned Response</a>. Recently released is emoticons for your email (ya&#8230; I could have done without that but what the heck people love that stuff). I dunno if anybody noticed, but one of the emoticons is a pile of shit circled by flies!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Pile-o-GmailShit" src="http://www.paulspoerry.com/wp-content/uploads/techyshit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/capture10.jpg" alt="" width="591" height="174" /></p>
<p>Pretty funny.</p>
     

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