04 January 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
2011 is here, everybody! That’s right, Twenty Eleven. Five syllables. The perfect length for pronouncing a year. Incidentally, it’s also the first of our many predictions for the upcoming year and observations regarding the last. This New Year’s Day we got a smashing smattering of smart and smarmy panelists together… plus Kiki! We had a […]
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25 December 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
It’s that time of year, everyone! Considering we’re probably already in Santa’s “Don’t bother checking this year, I already know the answer” filter for the Naughty/Nice List, we decided to kick the raunch into overdrive this fine Christmas morning. Elves taking dumps? We’ve got ’em! Dominatrix Claus? Him too! The most delicious cumshot cookie you’ve […]
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Academy Awards, Alamo Drafthouse, Apple, Audible, Bad Santa, Black Swan, caganer, Catholicism, chairs, Christmas, Clint Mansell, cookies, Darren Aronofsky, Dickerdoodle, dominatrix, eggnog, Four Loko, Frosty the Snowman, Inception, It's a Wonderful Life, Kevin, Kiki, Kinect, Krampus, Leo Laporte, lunar eclipse, MacBook Air, Mila Kunis, Monster, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Natalie Portman, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, nativity scene, NERF, Oscars, Penny Arcade, pi, poop, Rare Exports, Requiem for a Dream, Rifftrax, Santa Claus, Simon, Spain, Stephen, Swan Lake, tables, The Fighter, The Fountain, The Kids Are All Right, The Social Network, True Grit, Twilight, Verbaluce, Wikipedia, winter eclipse, Xbox
01 December 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Always one news cycle behind, we here at BF have decided to tackle the TSA groping/scanning debacle with our own flavor of punditry. This week Kevin, Simon, and Kiki joined me to figure out how the system is broken, how to make it better, and how droids might become involved in the process. Oh, and […]
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3D, 911 Truth, Adam Savage, airport security, Avatar, chicken mcnuggets, Cowboys and Aliens, Darths and Droids, Disney, dreams, Israel, James Cameron, Joan of Arcadia, Kevin, Kiki, liberty, Michael Bay, Myst, MythBusters, Olivia Wilde, profiling, Simon, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Star Trek, Stephen, Steve Wozniak, Supreme Court, The Unusuals, Thomas Jefferson, Transformers, Tron Legacy, TSA
23 November 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
As I hope many of you are already aware thanks to various sources around the Internet, FOX recently announced that the best sci-fi series currently on television, Fringe, will be moving to the “Friday Night Death Slot” when American Idol returns. Obviously, we here at BF are upset about this, so we assembled a panel […]
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4chan, advertising, alcohol, American Dad, AOL, Archimedes, Aristophanes, ASL, chauvinism, Cialis, Coca-Cola, Comedy Central, CPM, democracy, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible, DVR, engagement, Family Guy, Firefly, Formspring, FOX, Friday Night Death Slot, Fringe, Futurama, Ghost Hunters, God, Honeymooners, Hoverround, How I Met Your Mother, Hulu, instant gratification, Jeopardy!, Kevin, long tail, Mad Men, Matt, McDonald's, mead, Nielsen ratings, PBS, POGs, poop, PopEater, privacy, Rhapsody, Simon, statistics, Stephen, supernatural, Syfy, TechCrunch, The Cleveland Show, The Guild, TSA, TV, TV ratings, Twitter, unions, value, Viagra, vinyl, Wheel of Fortune
08 November 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Imagine having an army of workers ready to do your bidding, no matter how menial and trivial, as long as you pay them some semblance of a decent wage. That’s Amazon Mechanical Turk in a nutshell, with which people are doing strange and wonderful things. To discuss this and other randomness, we had the pleasure […]
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Amazon, CastingWords, Clear Channel, conferences, crowdsourcing, Dinosaur Comics, Facebook, Foursquare, GetGlue, GI Joe, Glenn Beck, Gowalla, Kevin, LEGOs, location, Machine of Death, Mechanical Turk, Paul Newman, questions, radio, Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Randall Monroe, SDCC, Simon, social media, Stephen, SXSW, Texas Tech University, Venn Diagrams