Archive for March, 2007

Geico Caveman Could be Next American Idol

Well, what will they think of next?

NEW YORK (AP) — Those Geico "cavemen" shouldn’t be so upset after all — they may get their own television series.

ABC said Friday it had ordered a pilot for a comedy, tentatively titled "Cavemen," that features the characters used in a series of ads by the insurance company.

In the ads, cavemen appear insulted by a Geico pitchman’s claim that the company’s Web site is so easy to use that "even a caveman can do it."

The potential series, one of 14 pilots that will be produced by Touchstone Television this spring, features the cavemen as they "struggle with prejudice on a daily basis as they strive to live the lives of normal thirty-somethings in 2007 Atlanta."

From CNN

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watch out for gonzaga or florida down there

Herman Dooyeweerd

Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894a€"1977) proposed the "cosmonomic idea." This idea roughly means "this comes from the cosmos." Dooyeweerd regarded the cosmos as the sum of God’s creation. The "cosmonomic idea" points to particular objects and beings and recognizes that each particular aspect of the creation has a harmonious design and meaning. At the core of every created object and creature is meaning. Dooyeweerd argued that reality is created by God, and our experience of this reality is meaning. Therefore, the primary property of all we experience is meaning.

Notice that he does not say that truth and the objective existence of the created world gives meaning to experience-as a philosophical realist like myself would say. He says we experience meaning directly, and that experience comprises our whole knowledge of being. This unusual twist of thought makes me a little uncomfortable. Dooyeweerd manages to be neither realist nor idealist, monist nor dualist, nominalist nor platonist, gnostic nor materialist. He rejects existentialism, not because it denies objective reality, but because he insists that we primarily experience meaning and not modes of the will or existence, as existentialists think.

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Posted: March 8th, 2007
at 10:29am by Koookiecrumbles

Categories: life,fo' real?,9th dan

Comments: 1 comment

"Democracy bought is democracy stolen. Democracy imposed preempts democracy seized."

I submit that this may be the only way. Build a "good" country from the ground up. The government is lost to us. The "hard-left" will not unite. Socially, environmentally, and spiritually, the situation is badly disintegrating. Few will admit it, but we are already at war in Somalia and with Iran. The latter will have disastrous consequences, but seems inevitable. If we do not build a "good" country, we will have no country at all.

Be at peace.

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"Urban Attractors, Private Distractors"

If the pychogeographics of a city can reveal the values and behavior of its inhabitants then it could offer insight on how these cultures interact in virtual space.

Urban Attractors and Private Distractors is about the idea of experiencing privacy in public from an Eastern perspective. In the Asian communist city urban architecture has less distinction from outside/inside and private/public. Participants compare results from derives (Situationists) in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and New York City.

How is a city constructed in a culture where the inhabitants have little experience of a private physical space? Do they adapt more readily to cyberspace that is both private/public simultaneously? Organized derives in both places, (HCMC, and NYC) will commence January-March 2007. Participants will post image/text/sound/video as urban indicators of private and/or public. The data will be combined with images of the fountain- a typical public urban attractor on billboard maps that retrace the routes of the derives.

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Termini, Roma

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