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Maybe we're all on the wrong track.

by drpruner. Jul 20, 2007 2:11AM PDT

Maybe we should be worshipping here:

From issue 2613 of New Scientist magazine, 21 July 2007, page 84
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AUTHORS of web-page disclaimers enjoy near-total creative freedom, safe in the knowledge that they are entirely unread, Feedback has previously suggested (19 May). Or nearly entirely. The online computer gaming magazine Ctrl+Alt+Del bears the message: "By reading this fine print your soul is now the exclusive property of Ctrl+Alt+Del and subsidiaries. Unauthorized use of Ctrl+Alt+Del characters, images, materials, souls, odors, and oxygen is strongly discouraged. We know where you sleep."

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The webcomic is pretty good

by dirtyrich Jul 20, 2007 10:49AM PDT

if you are a gamer. One recent plotline in the comic was that a character created a game-based religion, with ensuing hilarity.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20070618

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Can't follow the link.

by drpruner. Jul 20, 2007 11:14AM PDT

My church won't let me.

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Come over to the dark side dr...

by grimgraphix Jul 20, 2007 11:22PM PDT

... come over to X Box 360.

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Actually, I'm not interested in

by drpruner. Jul 21, 2007 8:59AM PDT

computer gaming of either kind. I did appreciate dirtyrich's post, though. I paid attention only to the joke, so I didn't realize ctrlaltdel was an online gaming magazine, and I thought it was a site for gambling. (In states like ours with casinos, the media calls it "gaming"- I guess it sounds more innocent.)

Oh ... you meant dark

as in "blankety-blank HDD went out again!!"

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