We know, we know-- Friday rolls around and all you people want to do is turn off your brains and log some quality goofing-off time. But while rest and relaxation does you good, it's not in your best interests to go totally slack, intellectually speaking. So here's some quickie food for thought to chew on over the weekend: what if there's already a PowerPC G5 processor out there in some Motorola testing lab? Furthermore, what if the three top-secret engineers with access to it aren't the brightest crayons in the box, and figured no harm would come from donating its unused processor cycles to the SETI@home project?

See, faithful viewer Matthew Reed and his friend Micah Horwith were poking around the site for the SETI@home initiative (which enlists the help of computer users the world over to process radio telescope data in hopes of discovering signs of alien intelligence), and found this stats page which lists the processing performance donated by various CPU types. Entry number 25 reads "PPC G5." So has Motorola accidentally let the cat out of the bag? Will this affect Apple's future product plans? Will Blake see through Alexis's cunning plan and refuse to sign over his power of attorney before the twins wake up from their coma?

Okay, so other reported CPUs on the page include the "AMD Athlonm," the "Intel Puntium," the "entium," the "Elwro 800junr," and the "gaga." Perhaps that diminishes the believability of the PPC G5 listing somewhat. Hey, we just wanted to keep you from slipping into a state of complete intellectual atrophy, not have you prove the theory of relativity or anything-- we never said it was a brain teaser. Still, it's nice to dream about some lonely G5 out there, crunching away on SETI blocks (at a rate approximately twice that of the main "PowerPC" listing, by the way) until it's allowed to see the light of day...