So Slashdot ran a short article on the rise of religious search engines — customized web search engines to return preferred sources to fit one's personal superstitions. I can't say how true that is, because the examples they gave, such as the Christian SeekFind page, has collapsed under the sudden weight of a multitude of geeks overwhelming their database.
This isn't the Christian world anymore. We live on Nerd World. And I for one welcome our new aspie overlords.
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