Wednesday, June 3, 2009

1967 TV Commercial - hard to believe ain't it?

Hello Friends:
Was poking around the way-back-machine at archive.org and found some nifty old commericals in their archive. I'm using the evil-media angle to get mad enough about the p0ison delivery system that is a cigarette to quit. Wish me luck.

peace.c

http://www.archive.org/download/tobacco_jcz99d00/80705268_5270-5271_512kb.mp4

[working on getting the movie to embed properly - hang tight]

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Memetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Memetics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton, Lingua ex Machina, glossary (MIT Press)

William H. Calvin and Derek Bickerton, Lingua ex Machina, glossary (MIT Press): "meme Richard Dawkins’s 1976 coinage, on the analogy to gene (with a little aid from mime and mimic), for a cultural copying unit, such as the word or melody that is mimicked by others."

Monday, July 7, 2008

Thought for the day.


I don't really have much to say today. Happy birthday America?


However, I did run across this photo. I like.


Monday, June 23, 2008

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. - George Carlin

Sad day. George Carlin 1937-2008

My wife and I saw George in concert in Las Vegas in 1996 at Bally's. We were seated at a table with a couple who just may have not known anything about his routines. We lauged until we pissed ourselves. The other couple seemed horrified. However, I think George made his intended mark on us all. Pushing the envelope and exposing the human condition for what it is, George truly earned his frequently penned title of Comic Genius.

Want supporting evidence? Just read about his career. You may be surprised. From a Supreme Court case regarding the "words you can't say on television" to over a hundred Tonight Show appearances to directing many comedic films including 40 Year Old Virgin, Carlin was unmatched in his field.

There is good news, however, as George himself said "thanks to the fear of death in this country, I won't have to die - I'll "pass-away".

We'll miss you George. Thanks for the laughs.





Thursday, April 24, 2008

War

Force and fraud are, in war, the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)