Bad Philosophy » crowdsourcing http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random philosophical musings about pretty much anything. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:12:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ captainvalor@gmail.com (The Bad Philosophers) captainvalor@gmail.com (The Bad Philosophers) Philosophy 1440 http://www.badphilosophy.com/podcast/BF_Logo_144x144_Color.jpg Bad Philosophy http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog 144 144 Upsetting the balance of reality, one rabbit trail at a time Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random musings about everything from the nature of reality to the essence of modern digital society. Every week Stephen Torrence and Kevin Saunders invite guests from greater Texas Tech to chew the cud and make some magic. The more rabbit trails the better... philosophy, random, humor, college, politics, life The Bad Philosophers The Bad Philosophers captainvalor@gmail.com no clean Episode 077: The Untimely Death of Stephen http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/11/08/episode-077-the-untimely-death-of-stephen/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/11/08/episode-077-the-untimely-death-of-stephen/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:16:59 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=232 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 of bringing back Numero Uno Fanboy turned Bad Philosopher Jed Cummins, alongside newly-minted Clear Channel savant / amateur foley artist Simon Ponder. Oh yeah, and Kevin Saunders got to host half the episode. How the hell did that come about? Well, have a listen!
This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “F*** You” by Cee-LO, sung by William Shatner
]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/11/08/episode-077-the-untimely-death-of-stephen/feed/ 1 1:02:59 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 wonderf[...] Bad Philosophy Episode 077 "The Untimely Death of Stephen" Recorded 11-04-2010 Bad Philosophers: Stephen Torrence, Jediah Cummins, Kevin Saunders, Simon Ponder 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 of bringing back Numero Uno Fanboy turned Bad Philosopher Jed Cummins, alongside newly-minted Clear Channel savant / amateur foley artist Simon Ponder. Oh yeah, and Kevin Saunders got to host half the episode. How the hell did that come about? Well, have a listen! Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no Episode 061: Newspaper Zombies http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/04/03/episode-061-newspaper-zombies/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/04/03/episode-061-newspaper-zombies/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:57:10 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=197 When was the last time you read a newspaper? Oh… you’re reading one now. Well um… I guess I’ll just let you finish then. No, it’s cool, take your time. … Done? Okay, awesome. So… wow, this is a bit awkward. Our topic this week is actually the “death” of newspapers, which probably sounds a lot less interested to you now in light of… yeah. Turns out the news of their death might be a bit exaggerated. On the show to tell us why were print journalism gurus Simon Ponder and Ashley Liles. Back on the show to give them hell was the one and only Kevin Saunders. We do hope you enjoy this romp into the subject… right after you finish the Sports section.

Hey, we actually broadcast this one live, too! Check it out:

This week’s post-show song pimpage: “Hard Times” from Newsies

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/04/03/episode-061-newspaper-zombies/feed/ 1 0:59:09 When was the last time you read a newspaper? Oh… you’re reading one now. Well um… I guess I’ll just let you finish then. No, it’s cool, take your time. … Done? Okay, awesome. So… wow, this is a bit awkward. [...] Bad Philosophy Episode 061 "Newspaper Zombies" Recorded 03-28-10 When was the last time you read a newspaper? Oh... you're reading one now. Well um... I guess I'll just let you finish then. No, it's cool, take your time. ... Done? Okay, awesome. So... wow, this is a bit awkward. Our topic this week is actually the "death" of newspapers, which probably sounds a lot less interested to you now in light of... yeah. Turns out the news of their death might be a bit exaggerated. On the show to tell us why were print journalism gurus Simon Ponder and Ashley Liles. Back on the show to give them hell was the one and only Kevin Saunders. We do hope you enjoy this romp into the subject... right after you finish the Sports section. This week's post-show song pimpage: "Hard Times" from Newsies Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no Episode 027: It’s Gonna Be a Shaving Thing http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/03/31/episode-027-its-gonna-be-a-shaving-thing/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/03/31/episode-027-its-gonna-be-a-shaving-thing/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:26:20 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=132 Progress is a tricky thing. It doesn’t always go like you think it should. Sometimes the days are Blue and Sunny, sometimes things blow up in your face, and sometimes you just have to put yourself out there and let it happen. What I’m trying to say is, of course, that BF had an AWESOME time doing our first live recording in a while, and we promise this will be the first of many. Be sure to follow us on Twitter for all the juicy updates.

On this episode we talked about the meaning of live, Kevin’s source of power, and even experimented with musicality. It was live, it was random, it was totally BF. Have a listen…

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/03/31/episode-027-its-gonna-be-a-shaving-thing/feed/ 1 0:44:01 Progress is a tricky thing. It doesn’t always go like you think it should. Sometimes the days are Blue and Sunny, sometimes things blow up in your face, and sometimes you just have to put yourself out there and let it happen. What I’m tr[...] Progress is a tricky thing. It doesn’t always go like you think it should. Sometimes the days are Blue and Sunny, sometimes things blow up in your face, and sometimes you just have to put yourself out there and let it happen. What I’m trying to say is, of course, that BF had an AWESOME time doing our first live recording in a while, and we promise this will be the first of many. Be sure to follow us on Twitter for all the juicy updates. On this episode we talked about the meaning of live, Kevin’s source of power, and even experimented with musicality. It was live, it was random, it was totally BF. Have a listen… Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no