Bad Philosophy

Have you ever noticed how fast food that you buy never looks like the pictures? Oh, or gotten super frustrated when you plug in a USB port backwards? Have you ever just wished that everyone followed a simple set of rules for living? Now… have you ever thought about writing hyper-rational, detailed rants on these issues […]

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Aaron Sorkin, alphaila, Amazon, Android, Arrested Development, Bob Ross, books, Captain Vimes, Dario D, design, Discworld, Dustin Hoffman, E2, Ed Helms, engineering, falliblism, fast food, Fathead, induction, Ira Glass, Kevin, Kindle Fire, Luck, Max Headroom, Michael Moore, modernism, Newsroom, paper, paternalism, poetry, post-modernism, Sicko, Simon, Slings and Arrows, society, statistics, Stephen, Super Size Me, technology, TED Talks, The West Wing, The Wire, Tom Naughton, truth, TV, USB, Who Killed the Electric Car

Stephen returns to Texas Tech to analyze hipsters and counter-culture with Shawn, Matt, and Bryan.

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Amazon, Amazon Prime, Angry Birds, AOL, Apple, Arcade Fire, babies, Bryan M, Canada, Carl Young, Cars, Chipotle, counter-culture, Digital Media Studio, Dreamwidth, emo, Facebook, Ford, Foursquare, Freebirds, Google, HEB, hipsters, iPhone, iPod, iRiver H10, Kent Hance, Kia, King Supers, Kroger, Last.fm, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, maple syrup, Matt, memes, meta, Microsoft, music, pancakes, Predictably Irrational, retro, Risk, Sanyo, Saturn, sex, Shawn, Stephen, Texas Tech University, The Atlantic, The Decemberists, The Internet, Twitter, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Windows, Zune

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

In a world, divided by history, separate but equal, teetering on the brink of the cosmos, one podcast dares to defy the axioms and go where no podcast has gone bef… well you get the idea. This week we’re talking Anathem! Neal Stephenson’s latest work of spec-fic awesomery is ripe with headiness, so we decided to bring on couple of powerhouses in the brain department. Former-KTXT and current Llano Idea DJ Benjamin Brown returns to duke it out in a literary smackdown for the ages with veteran Bad Philosopher and aspiring YouTube reviewer Kevin Saunders. If this were a book, it’d be a genuine page-turner. But you read with your ears, right? Of course you do. So have a listen…

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