03 March 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Imagine yourself stuck in a mine. It’s just you and two other people, and the food runs out. One of the others pulls you aside and suggests the unthinkable. You’re mortified… but that third survivor’s thighs look as tasty as a 50-piece Nugget Meal from McDonald’s. What do you do? The prospect of cannibalism continues […]
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Allan Hutcheson, animals, Apple, ASL, auto-tune, cannibalism, causation, Chad Ocho Cinco, chimpanzees, Dr. Kevorkian, England, Escape from Spiderhead, ethics, Every Which Way But Loose, evolution, facial hair, Fear Factor, firing squad, Geico, Hannibal Lector, hipsters, humanity, insects, inventions, John Hodgman, Kevin, Kiki, law, long pig, Michael Crichton, murder, numerology, Penn and Teller, PETA, separation thesis, Shake-Weight, Snuggie, songsigning, Star Wars, Stephen, Steve Jobs, survival, TED, The Star, ThinkGeek
07 October 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
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 […]
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Aaron Sorkin, Africa, Alamo Drafthouse, aliens, AOL, Bill Gates, Bosnia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Car Talk, cell phones, Citizen Kane, college, copyright law, David Fincher, Divya Narendra, drugs, Dude Where's My Car?, Eduardo Savarin, entrepreneurialism, Facebook, FaceMash, Fight Club, film, Hackers, Harvard, High School Musical, history, Jaws, Jeff Jarvis, Justin Timberlake, Kevin, Kiki, law, Lawrence Lessig, lawyers, Leo Laporte, Linux, LiveJournal, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Zuckerberg, media, Metallica, Nicholas Brendon, Rifftrax, Sean Parker, Second Life, social networking, society, sociology, Sports Night, Starbucks, Stephen, Stephen Colbert, Steve Jobs, The Accidental Billionaires, The Internet, The New Yorker, The Social Network, The West Wing, Theater Hopper, Tom Brazelton, Tron, twins, Twitter, Weird Al Yankovic, Winklevoss Twins
04 September 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
In these tough economic times, it’s always nice to be able to take a break from all the chaos and watch the demented apparition of a shark tear through the souls of Peter Jackson’s brethren. Not sure what the hell we’re talking about? Well, here’s the dealio. Kevin and I reconvened for another romp into […]
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3D, alcohol, books, Britannica, comic books, cyber-terrorism, Dave Chappelle, drugs, education, elementary school, Ghost Shark 2, Glenn Beck, Gregory Brothers, harm principle, John Stuart Mill, justice, Kevin, Kickstarter, law, Live Free or Die Hard, lunch, malt liquor, marijuana, Martin Luther King Jr, movies, New Zealand, Oxford English Dictionary, philosophy of law, Reefer Madness, Rifftrax, Shakespeare, Star Wars, Stephen, The Internet, The Pirate Bay, The Room, The Wire, The Yes Men, Troll 2, Westboro Baptist Church, Wikipedia
30 October 2008
By StephenTorrence
In Weekly Why
We’re back for the second installment of the RaiderVille Diaries, joined this time by yet another first-time guest, Lexi Ellis. We managed to cram four people into the midget tent and muse about the social dynamics of the growing community, authority, lawlessness, and such. The party’s going strong and there are still two days to […]
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alcohol, anarchy, authoritarianism, college, ESPN, food, football, Kevin, law, Lexi, magic, Matt, Microsoft, Mike Leach, monarchy, nepotism, prostitution, RaiderVille, Risk, Rock Band, society, Stephen, tents, Texas Tech University, The Incredibles, University of Texas, Wild West, Woodstrock
