Bad Philosophy

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

Every once in a while we here at BF like to have a gratuitously self-indulgent show that focuses purely on our own half-baked accomplishments and personal history. This time it was all about the K-man, mister Kevin Saunders himself. We had live Skype callers on the show once again, talked a little history, and answered […]

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Bad Astronomy, Canada, census, Dollhouse, education, Foursquare, Freebirds, genealogy, high school, history, Jackass, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, Lubbock, Lubbock Tweetup, physics, questions, Stephen, Texas Tech University, theatre, time travel, Twitter

Quick! There’s an asteroid barreling toward your corner of the earth and you have no chance of escape. The world as you know it ends in 4 hours. What do you do?! Listen to the latest BF, that’s what! On this show we tackled that ever-present subject of the apocalypse. Kevin Saunders joined me alongside […]

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2010: The Year We Make Contact, 2012, afterlife, apocalypse, Avatar, crazy glue, death, dinosaurs, disaster porn, Dollhouse, Firefly, Forever is Not So Long, freedom, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Jediah, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, mobius strip, prophecy, retr0brite, science fiction, Serenity, SkyNet, Stephen, survival, Syfy, The Happening, The Moon, The Time Machine, time travel, Tremors, Waterworld

I know, I know… I was horribly late with the editing on this one, but I swear that two weeks ago we recorded a new BF on the first day of the new decade! This one was a pretty straightforward retrospective, but the first time we actually had an episode one year ago that we […]

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2010, 2012, Apple, AT&T, automated cars, bittorrent, cloud computing, Cory Doctorow, Dollhouse, economy, Facebook, Flickr, Ford SYNC, Foursquare, Google, Gowalla, GPS, Hulu, iGuide, iPhone, IPTV, Iraq, iRobot, iSlate, iTunes, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Korea, Large Hadron Collider, Matt, Microsoft, Mike Leach, Milk, Minority Report, MySpace, New York City, recession, RFID, Rotten Tomatoes, SkyNet, social media, Stephen, tablet, Terminator, Texas Tech University, texting, The Jetsons, The Pirate Bay, Total Recall, Twitter, underwear, VH1, Windows 7, Wolverine, Yahoo!, year