Episode 077: The Untimely Death of Stephen

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 of bringing back Numero Uno Fanboy turned Bad Philosopher Jed Cummins, alongside newly-minted Clear Channel savant / amateur foley artist Simon Ponder. Oh yeah, and Kevin Saunders got to host half the episode. How the hell did that come about? Well, have a listen!
This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “F*** You” by Cee-LO, sung by William Shatner

Continue reading

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Episode 076: Dalai Lama For Realz

As we approach Halloween and the cool weather starts to move in, the Bad Philosophers reconvene for yet another intellectual foray into this excitingly dynamic world. Recently Kevin had a chance to see His Holiness, the Dalai Lama in person. We discussed his newfound insights into the human condition, religion, and crowd control, as well as Facebook’s latest ploy to take over your social life and Google’s prototype of the Johnny Cab. Have a listen!

This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “We’re All Gonna Die” – featuring Kiki Canon, Devo Spice and Schaffer the Darklord

Continue reading

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Episode 075: A Minor Detail

This past weekend, the Facebook movie (aka. “The Social Network”) premiered in US theaters, racking up a cool $22 million at the box office. Even before the film launched, This Week in Google discussed the film’s “anti-geek” tone and Jeff Jarvis slammed it in his review. Copyright reform advocate Lawrence Lessig also critiqued the film on a number of counts. Before all this controversy, The New Yorker wrote a long and revealing piece about “the real” Mark Zuckerberg, contrasting him with Aaron Sorkin’s character in the movie. Over the weekend Kevin, Kiki, and I all watched the film, and we had a few rebuttals to make on its behalf, partially inspired by webcomic author and blogger Tom Brazelton. Have a listen!

This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” by The Beatles

Continue reading

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Episode 074: Trabbit Rails

Aaaaaand, we’re back! For those of y’all who were keeping track, our 2-year anniversary was last month. That means BF has been around for… well… yeah, you can do the math. ANYWHO. Kevin and Kiki joined me to discuss brain damage, Neal Stephenson’s writing experiment, and a little ol’ movie about Facebook. No news stories this time, just a good old-fashioned F-isode. Enjoy!

This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “Creep” Cover by the Scala and Kolacny Brothers

Continue reading

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Episode 073: The Royal We

Yep, we’re back. It may be a week late, and these stories are probably completely irrelevant by now, but just pretend we’ve brought you a time machine and taken you back to last week for a look at the news! Yeah, it may be last week’s news, but… TIME MACHINE. Anyways, Kiki joined me for this episode to shoot to the proverbial shiz about the following stories. Check ’em out and enjoy the show!

1. Duke Nukem Forever Makes Comeback

2. Hate the iTunes 10 Icon? Think You Can Do Better?

3. The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games

4. Craigslist Adult Services Section Shut Down

5. Language and Memes

6. The largest whorfian study EVER! (and why it matters)

This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “Craig’s List” by Schaffer the Darklord

Continue reading

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

prev posts prev posts