24 July 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
To quote a tired but relevant saying, we like to believe that “our courts are the great levelers.” They exist to ensure that criminals be punished, that the innocent are heard, that justice be done for one and all. But every once in a while someone goes through our courts and gets away with murder. […]
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alcohol, Bones, Breaking Bad, caffeine, Carson, Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, chloroform, cigarettes, cocaine, coffee, crime, crystal meth, CSI, death sentence, democracy, Dexter, drugs, epistemology, ethics, firearms, guns, Hitler, JonBenet, law, law enforcement, legal positivism, legal validity, marijuana, Matt, meta, methamphetamine, Monty Python, morality, Nancy Grace, natural law, NCIS, OJ Simpson, punishment, separation thesis, Social Thesis, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stephen, tobacco, vigilantism
21 June 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Picture this. You’re at a swingin’ house party, it’s 1 AM, and you are royally plastered. A witty, well-styled person ambles up and you two have a fantastic conversation. As the person walks away, you realize you have no clue as to the person’s gender or name. In a drunken haze that miraculously still leaves […]
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America's Got Talent, AOL, beauty, Bible, Boing Boing, Breaking Bad, Chinesh, comics, Community, Dawkins, Dreamsnake, English, fan fiction, feminism, Freewebs, Fringe, Game of Thrones, gender, gender equality, gender neutral pronouns, Geocities, God, grammar, Greek, Hawaii Five-O, iPhone, Kevin, Kiki, language, linguistic, Mad Men, Matt, Netscape, philosophy of language, Prodigy.net, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Sesame Street, Spanish, Star Trek, Stephen, Super 8, Toddlers and Tiaras, Tripod, TV, UPS, Vonda MacIntyre
13 June 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Since the dawn of computer networks, there have been those who push past the permissions, the boundaries, and the firewalls to penetrate deep within the forbidden corners of cyberspace. Recently, a group of these hackers calling themselves LulzSec has taken it upon themselves to bring some highly public meme-infused humor back into this practice. They’ve […]
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artificial intelligence, blackhat, Boing Boing, book code, brain, Colossus: The Forbin Project, computer security, consequentialism, crime, emergence, encryption, ethics, Facebook, FBI, Fox.com, Gawker, Hacker's Manifesto, Hackers, hacking, IBM, identity theory, intelligence, IRC, Kevin, Kevin Mitnick, Let Me Google That For You, Libya, lulz, LulzSec, memes, mind, morning, MySQL, network security, Nintendo, passwords, PBS, planting, porn, Pron.com, Sean Connery, singularity, Sony, Stephen, trolling, vigilantism, Watson, whitehat
02 June 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Theatre Alert! Trey Parker and Matt Stone (of South Park infamy) recently launched a Broadway musical that’s getting the exact opposite flavor of attention their work usually garners. Praise is sweeping across the play from all directions. However, we love our dirt here at BF, so in this episode we explored the ‘dark’ side of […]
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Africans, Amy, Austin, Avenue Q, Baltimore, broadway, David Simon, drugs, education, epistemology, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Kevin, Matt Stone, Mormonism, NPR, post-colonialism, racism, sound, South Part, Special Olympics, Stephen, synesthesia, Texenza, The Book of Mormon, The Ringer, The Wire, Tony Awards, transcription, Trey Parker, Uganda
18 May 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Announcements
Attention, everyone! After careful deliberation over a leftover half-sub from Firehouse, I decided last night to buckle up and install MediaWiki on our server. That means we’ve now got a full-fledged, Wikipedia-style wiki right here just for our use. We invite you to use this wiki to help us create an ongoing catalog of information […]
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