LuckyDonkey

It's really early in the morning so I'm a little cranky. While clicking around on my del.icio.us feed this article appeared: How to Persuade an Atheist to Become a Christian. Now normally I'm a pretty angry kind of guy and after only a few hours sleep and a single coffee I'm not the kind of atheist you want to fuck around with. I've got to say though, I really hope this article doesn't get taken down from wikiHow. Here are my blurry, mono-coffee, anti meridian reasons:

1. It's quite frankly such a weak set of steps that it isn't going to do any harm.
2. It's quite charming in an new testament, jesus loves you kind of a way.
3. It does at least treat Atheists with some degree of respect although not a lot.
4. I'm sure there are many many sites trying to achieve the reverse. In fact many Christians claim the whole secular movement (and thus the western world) is trying to turn Christians bad.
5. Atheism as a movement was first galvanized by the french and as an Englishmen I'll do support anything that even remotely undermines the french

So are all atheists angry?

As an adjunct to this, here is a REALLY scary picture

(It's from IT the movie and yes he is getting closer and if you look for too long he leaps out from the screen and persuades you to become a clown... Jesus christ!)

and a NOT so scary picture

(fear my automated build system... and my tiny penguin. Or maybe I have a normal sized penguin and a giant robot arm, calculator, mario mug, pens and desk... either way fear something or other... Jesus saves!)

I've been a fan of adding a little humor to dry documentation for as long as I've been reading dry documentation. It doesn't need to be a stand up routine Just a little bit of the character of the author will do. I just came across this in the Cocoa documentation for NSString:

Discussion
The substrings in the array appear in the order they did in the receiver. If the string begins or ends with the separator, the first or last substring, respectively, is empty. For example, this code fragment:

NSString *list = @"Norman, Stanley, Fletcher";
NSArray *listItems = [list componentsSeparatedByString:@", "];
produces an array { @"Norman", @"Stanley", @"Fletcher" }.

For those who didn't grow up in the eighties Norman Stanley Fletcher is a famous rogue from british television. Made me laugh for a moment Back to grindstone.

A dude makes a Flying Spaghetti Monster christmas light and sticks it outside his house. I really like the effort to make it as "...noodletomically correct as possible". It shows true commitment to making people happy.

All hail the mighty Flying Spaghetti Monster. I hope to one day be touched by its noodley appendage.