19 March 2010
By StephenTorrence
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There is a place where, once a year, every geek worth his or her salt comes together in the magically weird city of Austin. For five days we mingle, bond, network, and bring our alcohol consumption up to par with our 3G bandwidth consumption. We call this beer- and bandwidth-infused tribal gathering SXSW Interactive, and [...]
Ep060 Rooftop Skinny Dipping SXSW [57:45m]:
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alcohol, Ashton Kutcher, AT&T, augmenting reality, Austin, Bigg Digg Shindigg, business, business cards, crowd surfing, Dan Ariely, Evan Williams, Foursquare, geocaching, geotagging, Google, Gowalla, hyperlocation, interactive, Jediah, Leo Laporte, local, location, meta, news, newspapers, panels, QR codes, Simon, smartphones, social media, Starbucks, Stephen, SWACURH, SXSW, SXSWi, TWiT, Twitter, wifi, Wordpress, zombies
28 January 2010
By StephenTorrence
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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 [...]
Ep057 Philocalypse How? [54:10m]:
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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
07 November 2009
By StephenTorrence
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It’s easy to take our perceptions for granted. Colors, shapes, smells, and so forth are for the most part universal. But some people have this kickass condition called synesthesia, where their wires get crossed and their perceptions get… interesting. BF was privileged to get a man who sees letters and numbers as colors on the [...]
Ep051 Reading Rainbow [57:01m]:
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alphabet, Aristotle, biochemistry, color, Cyrillic, disabilities, Dr. Webb, drugs, dyslexia, geometry, Google, Greek, Jediah, kanji, Kevin, Office Space, philosophy of mind, Sanskrit, Shawn, Stephen, suicide, Swingline, synesthesia, The Giver, The Man Who Tasted Shapes, theology, wavelength
05 November 2009
By StephenTorrence
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As you long-time listeners no doubt know, we here at BF are prone to technical issues like a pigeon is prone to relieving himself on cars – we do it randomly, completely without intention, and ultimately everyone ends up various degrees of pissed. Well… that happened a couple of weeks ago when Jed, Kevin, and [...]
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Jediah, Kevin, Kevin Mitnick, Kevin Rose, social engineering, Stephen
06 October 2009
By StephenTorrence
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Input, Achiever, Restorative, Deliberative… to many these are but a few odd-sounding words, but to those of us here at BF they are the vocabulary of success and self-knowledge itself. They are Strengths, as defined by the Gallup Organization’s StrengthsFinder assessment. This past weekend Jay Killough of Texas Tech University Career Services joined us to [...]
Ep047 A Big To Do About WOO [48:45m]:
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beer, Chip Anderson, Don Clifton, Facebook, Gallup, hope, horoscopes, Jay Killough, Jediah, Kevin, Martin Siligman, mathematics, nature, Ning, nurture, Plato, psychology, Punk IPA, Rackspace, skill, sociology, Socrates, statistics, Stephen, StrengthsQuest, success, talent, Texas Tech University, Warren Ellis, weakness
