
In another observation of pop culture's war on ID, I bring you a remark by
Wired:
Apparently feeling pressured by Tux, supporters of Darwin, an open-source version of the Mac OS, decided they needed their own mascot. The result is Hexley, a curious platypus who in some images is portrayed with horns and a pitchfork -- enough evidence for several intelligent design theorists to offer him as proof of the satanic origins of evolutionary biology.
This is additionally funny to us because we run FreeBSD, whose mascot,
Beastie, inspired
Hexley.
Update:
Krauze and several other intelligent-design activists over at
Telic Thoughts have the mistaken belief that in the above post I took the remark by Wired to be serious. To me that remark was an obvious joke, poking fun at intelligent-design activists and creationists. I still can't find anything in my post that suggests that I was using Wired as a reference. (I can't even think of a reason why PT would even use random remarks by Wired as a reference for happenings among idists.)
26 Comments
Glen Davidson · 25 April 2007
Well you know how it is, Hexley has the unavoidable appearance of being Satanic. Or anyway, he looks as Satanic as the flagellum looks like an outboard motor.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/35s39o
daenku32 · 25 April 2007
Maybe I request the correction of the link? The devil must have gotten the best of it.
John A. Michon · 25 April 2007
It might be a good idea (if only for copyright reasons) to compare Beastie and maybe Hexley as well, with the little devil that was designed in the 1960's by one PAULA from Cincinnati, Ohio. I still possess a notepad printed in 1968, the cover of which reads:
"Paula presents Speak Of The Devil!! A satanic stationary assortment of devil-may-care humor. Fire-sale priced at 59c
Copyright 1968 - 59 ASP 152"
I have no means to show an example here, but I could send a jpg by ordinary e-mail, if I know an address.
Reed A. Cartwright · 25 April 2007
Fixed. My cut and paste skills are horrible today.
Rick @ shrimp and grits · 25 April 2007
Also, the BSD Daemon's tail looks a lot like a flagellum. Coincidence? I think not!
Henry J · 25 April 2007
Of course, that cartoon resembles a platypus about as much as the road runner cartoon resembles an actual road runner.
Torbjörn Larsson · 25 April 2007
David B. Benson · 25 April 2007
Being an evolutionary development from Unix, this software contains daemons!
JohnS · 25 April 2007
So they were trying for Darwin's bulldog, Huxley and ended up with Hexley the platypus. It all makes sense, now.
I'll keep the OS, in spite of learning this.
Tharry · 26 April 2007
This is old news. The TRUTH about Hexley's link to Apple's secret Darwinistic alignment was revealed nearly six years ago by noted theobiologist Dr. Richard Paley in his exposé on Evolutionism Propaganda.
Jim Ramsey · 26 April 2007
Of course, there is this nearly famous story
http://www.rmitz.org/freebsd.daemon.html
Moses · 26 April 2007
I blame George Soros.
scott · 26 April 2007
As a tech this isn't a surprise. In my office i use to have a beastie figure behind the check in desk. I removed it after several complaints, but replaced it with my insane Alice from American McGee's Alice. It really is disturbing how common and powerful people like this are. As for the complaints these got bad. We got phone calls, a few people left and one wrote a nasty letter. Nobody has ever complained about Alice, who by the way looks evil and holds a bloody knife. We even had a woman give us a lecture on why we were evil because we carried HP products. She was convinced that HP supported the homosexual movement. This month has had a bumper crop of stupid.
DragonScholar · 26 April 2007
So they've never heard of daemons I take it . . .
I think if there was an award for Lamest ID concept, this really is going to be up there. I mean it's a weirdly-drawn platypus cosplayer . . .
Noturus · 26 April 2007
The idea of "e=mc^2"...a term which Einstein accepted...indisputably contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands possibility of a global holocaust in the mid and late 20th century.
It is NOTHING LESS than complicity in MURDER on a mass scale.
(Sorry about feeding the troll)
David Stanton · 26 April 2007
The idea of witch hunts, inquisitions, jihads, holy wars and crusades, which many religions accepted, indisputably directly caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
It is NOTHING LESS than MURDER on a mass scale.
(Sorry about feeding the troll, but Noturus beat me to the other comment).
Popper's Ghost · 27 April 2007
Thought Provoker · 29 April 2007
To ALL,
FYI, Telic Thoughts is making some mileage over the idea that Wired (and you) fell for a parody.
http://telicthoughts.com/pandas-thumb-and-hexley-the-hoaxing-platypus/
Provoking Thought
Reed A. Cartwright · 29 April 2007
Wow Wired hit a sore spot with Telic Thoughts.
Note to Krauze: at no point in time did we take the Wired comment as anything but a joke at the expense of people like you.
Wesley R. Elsberry · 30 April 2007
Last I looked, the IDC community still seemed to think pitch shifting, fart noises, and puppet torture were clever beyond measure. Apparently, even small moves in the direction of subtlety are going to lose the base quickly.
Sir_Toejam · 30 April 2007
Wesley R. Elsberry · 30 April 2007
Reed A. Cartwright · 30 April 2007
Krauze · 30 April 2007
Hi Reed,
I never saw your comment in the thread, and certainly haven't deleted it. It's possible that it got caught in the spam filter. Since you've saved a copy, why don't you post it again?
Reed A. Cartwright · 30 April 2007
Done, but it is still awaiting moderation.
Krauze · 30 April 2007
Approved.