06 January 2015
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Our annual New Years show! How did we do in 2014? And what do we expect for 2015? Listen to find out! Special guest Matt Legler.
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Apple Pay, Apple Watch, Attack on Titan, Austin, Bitcoin, Black Mirror, blockchain, Boing Boing, books, cable, Capital in the 21st Century, Christopher Nolan, Coin, cold brew coffee, cord cutting, Cory Doctorow, economics, Edward Snowden, EFF, EFF-Austin, encryption, Ethereum, Franklin Barbecue, Fred Wilson, Friends, Google Fiber, Google Glass, GoPRO, Gravity’s Rainbow, Homeland, Infinite Jest, Internet of Things, Interstellar, Jack Conte, Java, Kevin, Kickstarter, law, Let’s Encrypt, Linguistic Labyrinth, Lyft, Matt, Matt Damon, Narrative Clip, Net Neutrality, Netflix, New Years, Nymi, Patreon, payment processing, PBS Idea Channel, Planet Money, podcasts, Pomplamoose, privacy, quantified self, RadioLab, Robert Bapst, security, Security Now, Serial, sharks, Sony Hack, Stephen, Steve Gibson, surveillance, The Circle, The Internet, They Might Be Giants, This American Life, Thomas Piketty, tokenized payments, Turkish coffee, Uber, Ulysses, Veronica Mars, wearables
03 October 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen fight a Story War and discuss Honest Trailers, PoMo theatre, the Monomyth, and much more on this week’s free-flowing F-isode.
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A New Kind of Science, Boing Boing, Breaking Bad, Cabin in the Woods, Community, complexity, Dan Harmon, Disney, feminism, FEZ, Flatland, Hercules, Honest Trailers, horror, Indie Game: The Movie, James Woods, Joseph Campbell, Kevin, Netrunner Android, Norman Leary, Orange is the New Black, racism, sexism, Steam, Stephen, Stephen Wolfram, Story War, Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play, The Hero's Journey, The West Wing, theatre, TV, Valve, Weeds, XKCD, You're Next
01 November 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen critique the nature of work from first principles and rip capitalism a new one.
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benefits, Boing Boing, Bureau of Labor Statistics, bureaucracy, capitalism, Cillian Murphy, communism, corporations, corporatism, economics, education, employment, gift economy, health insurance, Hyperbole and a Half, illegal immigration, Jerry Pournelle, Joel Olsteen, Joshua Glenn, Kevin, love, MacBeth, Mark Kingwell, Marxism, migrant work, minimum wage, neo-Marxism, personal identity, price fixing, Reading Rainbow, religion, slavery, Stephen, stock options, Tales of the Golden Clipper, teachers, telepathy, Texas Roller Derby, theatre, trust, TSA, United States, value, wage slavery, wages, work
06 October 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Backwards thinking is the name of the game this week as Kevin, Kiki and Stephen dive into the religious symbology of Hollywood.
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ASL, Boing Boing, Christianity, Dan Savage, Dolly Parton, Dune, Epic of Gilgamesh, Fred Figglehorn, Gladiator, God, Harry Potter, ion, Joan of Arc, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin, Kiki, Logan's Run, love, MST3K, Mystery Science Theater 3000, mythology, Penn and Teller, pie, religion, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rome, Soylent Green, spoilers, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen, symbology, The Island, theology, World of Warcraft
21 August 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Take a moment to picture something that truly, deeply disgusts you; that photo in the lobby of your doctor’s office, rubbing felt the wrong direction, your own face in the mirror every morning… y’know, that sorta stuff. As it turns out, people get disgusted by relatively similar things, at least according to a couple of […]
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aliens, alternate reality games, Battleship, Boing Boing, death, disease, disgust, dolphins, food, free will, Greek, hagfish, iLoveBees, Julie, Kevin, kosher, language, Liam Neeson, Malaysia, MythBusters, pirates, radio drama, sex, South Korea, Stephen, Taken, World War Z, zombies