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I had a great idea! In another discussion someone mentioned secret handshakes or a way to tell who in the business world is an atheist. How about instead of using the '@' symbol for you email address, you instead replace the '@' with Dawkin's scarlet letter 'A'?

It's discrete, if they don't know what that symbol means they'll think you just went out of your way to make the at symbol look creative. If they recognize it... think of the possibilities! An entire network of atheists in the business arena!

Thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by Fiona on August 30, 2008 at 9:11am

Its a great idea
Then on top of that we need to find a way to plant atheists in every company that manufacters printers! They can ensure every printer made will insist on printing all @ symbols in red
That way every priest will hand out propoganda with red @s on it
Then they will spend all their time thinking god damn it every time I hand out more and more junk people keep calling me an atheist
~~ I know it defeats the purpose of the idea but raah raah raah ~~ would be a laugh to see the confusion when the religious types cant understand why everyone thinks they are godless

Permalink Reply by LoLo on August 30, 2008 at 10:43am

That's hilarious! I like it... I'll start interning at one of those plants and I'll see what I can do.... hehe

Permalink Reply by Fiona on August 31, 2008 at 12:33am

The interns need an exciting cloak and dagger name thats something like our version of Illuminati

Permalink Reply by Dr Peter on August 31, 2008 at 1:37am

Fiona,

If you are looking for a 'cloak and dagger' name Illuminati-style.... how about Illuminated-A?

Illuminated@

Permalink Reply by Blake Rieger on August 31, 2008 at 2:49am

I like it!

I keep seeing the Jesus fish on products (and avoiding them if there's any alternative), and thinking how great it would be to have a symbol for atheist companies.

I do graphics, so if anybody wants such an A @ on a business card, shoot me a message.

Permalink Reply by Fiona on August 31, 2008 at 4:26am

I like Illuminated@ I can be illuminated @ home
I can be illuminated @ work
Those fundies will never know when illuminated people are going to pop up
~~ It would be cool to see a graphic that has Illumated@ done professionally
The graphic can go on products like a sticker that stands out to say no fundie garbage was used in making this product

yay I hope Blake might make a sample Illuminated@

Permalink Reply by Blake Rieger on September 1, 2008 at 4:26am

Can you guys link me to some text styles you like?

So you want:

Illuminated@ all in the same style? And I'm guessing in red?

I have to say, I mostly like the idea of a Dawkins Scarlet A in the @. That I can certainly do.

Permalink Reply by Fiona on September 5, 2008 at 8:32pm

Im going to make twice the work for Blake lol
Thats because im going off the idea of one graphic Illuminated@ is
for businesses to display they are a proudly dogma free business
The second graphic using the Dawkins scarlet A is for any person to show they are atheist
Illuminated@
feeAemail.com

Permalink Reply by Blake Rieger on September 8, 2008 at 9:55am

I think people can type "Illuminated"

Here's an A @:

http://blakerieger.deviantart.com/art/at-sign-atheistnexus-97374895

It's not very clean, but it should work at a small size. Click "download" over on the left for the large image.

This link may also work:

http://www.atheistnexus.org/photo/photo/show?id=2182797%3APhoto%3A1...

I also uploaded a red one with outline that you can find in my photos here next to the black one.

Permalink Reply by LoLo on September 8, 2008 at 8:44pm

That's an awesome graphic! It's subtle, and if you know what it means you found a great connection. But if you don't know what that 'A' means then you'll just think its a cool looking symbol for 'at'.

Kudos!

Permalink Reply by Fiona on September 25, 2008 at 7:32pm

Looks like this Illuminated thing really took on a life of its own lol

Permalink Reply by Jason Frank Cannon on September 27, 2008 at 8:57pm