Bad Philosophy

It was supposed to be the wave of the future, so what happened? Why aren’t we all living in holodecks already? And where’s my virtual haircut? We’ll try to answer all this and more before the singularity hits, so strap in and have a listen!

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Apple, Cisco Telepresence, Cory Doctorow, Crysis, Dark Forces, Disney, Dolby, Dollhouse, Dungeons and Dragons, eBooks, Facebook, good and evil, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, holodeck, holophonics, home automation, Jediah, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin, Kindle, Matt, Michael Crichton, military, MMORPGs, Neal Stephenson, Nintendo, Ray Kurzweil, Second Life, simulation, singularity, Star Trek, Stephen, technology, theatre, Twitter, video games, Virtual Boy, virtual reality, Wario, Wii, Wikipedia, World of Warcraft, XKCD

We’ve got ourselves a new president in these grand United States of America, and in celebration of that common knowledge we dedicated this BF to discussing… pretty much anything except that. Jessica Story joined us for the first time, bringing a flare of femininity to the show in a shameless attempt to lure in the other 51% of the world’s population. But demographics be damned! We had rabbit trails to follow, cookies to chew, and Rubik’s cubes to solve… all in a high-quality multi-track audio extravaganza. You thought we could never get more BF? Well I’ve got news for you: Yes we can. And… we did…

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2008 election, AARP, Abraham Lincoln, altruism, American Sign Language, Amish, Barack Obama, basketball, BCS, Big 12, Bill Clinton, Blackberry, blogging, cereal, Chef Boyardee, communism, cookies, Cory Doctorow, Creative, Crunch Berries, Daily Toreador, damage, democracy, dogs, Dr. Pepper, dyslexia, education, Facebook, facial hair, football, Freudian slip, George Bush, Gordon Hall, government, guns, Guns N Roses, house of cards, hurricanes, iPhone, Iraq War, Isaac Hayes, Jessica, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John McCain, ketchup, Kevin, Levar Burton, lobbying, Lucky Charms, Manifest Destiny, marijuana, Martin Luther King Day, Matt, Mennonites, nanobots, NCAA, NRA, Oklahoma!, Oreo, philosophy of language, Plantronics, politics, Presidential Inauguration, property, Richard Nixon, Rubik's Cube, school vouchers, september 11th, Shaft, Sigmund Freud, sneezing, socialism, Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town, Starbucks, Stephen, Super Smash Bros, tango, Teddy Roosevelt, Texas A&M, that's what she said, the future, The Jetsons, The Luvre, the pyramids, Twitter, tyranny, universal healthcare, Ustream, Wal-Mart, Xeni Jardin

It’s here, people! We’re inching our way ever closer to becoming bona fide, honest to goodness procasters. We’re back in the DMS and managed to rig up their spiffy, expensive microphones into the best audio configuration we’ve had yet. Julie Meadows joins us this episode for a finagled foray into copyright, Mickey Mouse, and sneezing… among many other decidedly BF things. So pull up an ideal chair and get ready for the audio bliss that is Episode 18…

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ABC, ASL, audio, audiobooks, blinking, books, burping, Catholicism, Chris Smith, Congress, copyright, Cory Doctorow, Craphound.com, Creative Commons, Disney, divorce, DNA, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, East India Trading Company, education, Europe, Facebook, fair use, fascism, FCC, Gatorade, Gettysburg Address, Godwin's Law, Grapevine, happy birthday, hats, intellectual property, iPhone, Japan, Julie, Kevin, Korea, Little Brother, lobbying, Matt, metaphysics, Mickey Mouse, Monoprice.com, Native Americans, ownership, Palm OS, patent, personal identity, Philip Glass, philosophy of mind, piano, Pixar, Pokemon, Powerade, private property, privatization, public domain, RadioShack, Romeo and Juliet, science fiction, Shakespeare, Ship of Theseus, sneezing, Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town, Steamboat Willy, Stephen, The Simpsons, theater, Tracy Olman Show, trade, trademarks, Wall-E, Walt Disney, Western culture, wills

One may be the loneliest number that you’ll ever do, but two is certainly NOT as bad as one when it’s Bad Philosophy. Kevin and I convened over Skype this week in leu of any other panelists. We actually got the audio working half-decently (can you believe it?!) and had a great back-and-forth about a wide variety of topics. So sit back, kindle your excitement, strap on your golden parachute, and shove those old VHS bootlegs of Oh, Killmas Tree under your desk – it’s time for some BF!

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2008 bailout, Amazon, Apple, Associated Press, Audible, audiobooks, Austin, Austrian economics, auto bailout, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, bigotry, books, bureaucracy, Cali Lewis, Christmas, college, comics, communism, Cory Doctorow, debt, dignity, DRM, DVDs, eBay, eBooks, economics, education, ePaper, Europe, Facebook, free market, fund raising, gold standard, government, graphic novels, Great Depression, Green Bay, home schooling, housing bubble, Houston Chronicle, Hugh Hefner, human progress, inflation, iPod, Iraq War, Ironman, iTunes, John McCain, Josh Justice, kept woman, Kevin, Kindle, Korean War, KTXT, Leo Laporte, libertarianism, Logitech, Lubbock, mainstream media, Marshall Plan, Monopoly, music, NASA, New Deal, New York Times, newspapers, Oh Killmas Tree, Oprah, Preacher, public school, radio, Ron Paul, San Francisco, Savings and Loan Crisis, Scandinavia, Scott McCloud, scrapbooking, SD, Skype, socialism, Sony, Sprint, stepford wife, Stephen, stock market, Student Media, Susan Peterson, Texas, Texas Tech University, The Dark Knight, The Internet, TWiT, Twitter, US Constitution, value, Vietnam War, virtual reality, Watchmen, Xbox