Here is a poem I wrote in terza rima. Enjoy!

Linux

Linux is the king OS
its power unmatched
by any of the rest

built from an idea hatched
by the godly Linus Torvalds
whose ideas dispatched

out to all the many small
communities of developers around,
this idea of an OS, the best of all

Its birth was the crown
of a new era of immaculacy
to burn microsoft into the ground

microsoft, for even with its maturity
still feels the need to screw
its users by faltering in security

and with that I call upon you
to make the switch to Backtrack
or Debian or even Ubuntu

and fight the power, fight back!
together we will show microsoft
that we are ready to attack

Linux == God [Video]

I just finished watching "The Story of Linux: Commemorating 20 Years of the Linux Operating System" (Yes, I should have watched this sooner.)
-1:18 for Linux Jesus Drawing

Where I learned of IBM Linux Ads - 2:14

Which led me to this: IBM Linux ad - Prodigy

Start My Day - Linux Script For Daily Apps

Click. Click. Click. Every day when I sit down at my computer and boot it up, I always launch the same 6 applications. I got tired of opening them manually every time, so instead I put a shortcut on my desktop that allows me to launch all of my apps at once via bash script.

To do this, just make a file called <whatever>.sh and put it somewhere safe. Next, create a desktop shortcut (Gnome 2) or menu entity (Openbox) that points to that script file. Then just add whatever commands you want to run to <whatever>.sh and you're good to go.

About Shell Scripting:
I recommend (if you're not familiar with it) reading more into shell scripting and really learning it, as it is a great tool for many jobs with this one being a very small example.

My script:
I keep my stuff simple, <command> &\n, nothing fancy.

google-chrome &
firefox http://gmail.com &
pidgin &

etc...

Notice the "&" at the end of each command. This tells the interpreter to run the process in the background, and continue running the next command.
The URL after firefox tells it to open that url, just how it would work in a terminal shell.

Autorun
Now, if you want your script to run automatically at login then the easiest option is to use the .bashrc_login file. At login time, bash looks for this file in your home directory and runs it. It should be located under your home directory ~/.bashrc_login. If it doesn't exist just create a new one. Add the command "sh /path/to/file/<whatever>.sh &" to the end of the file and you're set.

Further Reading
Running multiple apps at once is great, but bash scripts can do so much more. Here is a great guide to let you unleash your inner ninja: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/