In spite of the recent girl troubles, I was granted the mysterious powers of creativity, and thus, have created a badly-organized, not well thought-out, and... well... yeah, read it anyway. Or I'll send syntacs after you. And you should fear him, and his supreme misspelling of "syntax."

• Girls dig guys that mod their desktops.
• We all know that Windows machines like their desktops to be spiffy, original, thought-provoking, complex, and overly-functional. And a happy Windows machine, is a Windows machine that will keep you warm on cold nights.
• Well-modded desktops GREATLY increase productivity! The Duke Nukem Forever team says this of mod'ed desktops: "Ever since we started getting into the desktop modification scene, our productivity has increased ten-fold!"
• Guys dig girls that mod their desktops.
• Desktop modification gives litlte forum-trolls with no lives even more things to spend their nights flaming each other about.
• A [wo]man's desktop reflects his/her personality. Which is why Al Gore hasn't changed a damn thing since his secretary had Windows 98 installed on his box.
• A mod'ed desktop has been known to fend off potential megahurtz-stealers.
• Desktop modification software gives jobs to those that got beat out by Indians.
• I don't like out-sourcing, and Polycat.net is God.
• And the 10th, and final reason to mod your desktop is: it shows you know your shit about everything on the great, green Earth.

I may actually get around to writing a real top-ten list some day. But today is not that day.