Bad Philosophy

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 [...]

Ep075 A Minor Detail [ 1:08:30 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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

Unless you’ve been living under a diamond the size of Manhattan recently, you’ve no doubt noticed the release of the much-hyped movie Avatar, James Cameron‘s latest bulldozer-full of eye candy. It’s got noble savages, heavy-handed environmentalism, and more stunning CGI visuals than anything George Lucas could ever hope to conjure forth. Shortly after BF newcomer [...]

Ep054 Eywa Ex Machina [ 43:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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3D, Alamo Drafthouse, aliens, Avatar, biology, consciousness, Dances with Wolves, dwarves, emergence, environmentalism, film, gnomes, hobbits, James Cameron, Joss Whedon, Jurassic Park, Kevin, Kristin, Mark Cuban, movies, Native Americans, noble savage, Pokemon, porn, racism, Samurai Pizza Cats, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Sigourney Weaver, Smurfs, spiritualism, Star Wars, Stephen, The Core, The Matrix, unobtainium, worship