Bad Philosophy

Stephen returns to Texas Tech to analyze hipsters and counter-culture with Shawn, Matt, and Bryan.

Ep107: Killer Hipstinct [ 1:07:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Amazon, Amazon Prime, Angry Birds, AOL, Apple, Arcade Fire, babies, Bryan M, Canada, Carl Young, Cars, Chipotle, counter-culture, Digital Media Studio, Dreamwidth, emo, Facebook, Ford, Foursquare, Freebirds, Google, HEB, hipsters, iPhone, iPod, iRiver H10, Kent Hance, Kia, King Supers, Kroger, Last.fm, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, maple syrup, Matt, memes, meta, Microsoft, music, pancakes, Predictably Irrational, retro, Risk, Sanyo, Saturn, sex, Shawn, Stephen, Texas Tech University, The Atlantic, The Decemberists, The Internet, Twitter, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods, Windows, Zune

Since the dawn of computer networks, there have been those who push past the permissions, the boundaries, and the firewalls to penetrate deep within the forbidden corners of cyberspace. Recently, a group of these hackers calling themselves LulzSec has taken it upon themselves to bring some highly public meme-infused humor back into this practice. They’ve [...]

Ep092 LulzSec Flamebait [ 1:02:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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artificial intelligence, blackhat, Boing Boing, book code, brain, Colossus: The Forbin Project, computer security, consequentialism, crime, emergence, encryption, ethics, Facebook, FBI, Fox.com, Gawker, Hacker's Manifesto, Hackers, hacking, IBM, identity theory, intelligence, IRC, Kevin, Kevin Mitnick, Let Me Google That For You, Libya, lulz, LulzSec, memes, mind, morning, MySQL, network security, Nintendo, passwords, PBS, planting, porn, Pron.com, Sean Connery, singularity, Sony, Stephen, trolling, vigilantism, Watson, whitehat

At any given moment thousands of people around the world are praying (and since it’s Easter today you can probably tack a few more zeroes onto that estimate). Whether it’s praying for the destruction of sinful local businesses or just a little tsunami from God to show the world He’s still awake at the control [...]

Ep089 You Asked For It [ 58:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Aperture Science, ASMR, Buddha, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, consequentialism, deontology, Dr. Webb, Eleanor Stump, existentialism, God, harm, incest, Islam, J. Crew, Jeopardy!, Judaism, Kiki, Leisure Suit Larry, mantra, meditation, memes, nature, nurture, personality, philosophy of religion, placebo effect, prayer, problem of petitionary prayer, religion, Repent Amarillo, Richard Dawkins, science, Socrates, Stephen, synesthesia, Texas Tech University, The Daily Show, worship, Zagzebsky

Yep, we’re back. It may be a week late, and these stories are probably completely irrelevant by now, but just pretend we’ve brought you a time machine and taken you back to last week for a look at the news! Yeah, it may be last week’s news, but… TIME MACHINE. Anyways, Kiki joined me for [...]

Ep073 The Royal We [ 1:11:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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3D Realms, Adam Savage, adult content, American Idol, Anderson Cooper, Apple, arcades, Catholicism, CDs, Chuck Norris, communism, Craigslist, Doctor Who, Doom, Double Rainbow, Duke Nukem Forever, ethics, Family Guy, Gearbox, government, graphic design, harm principle, health insurance, healthcare, Hebrew, i09, iOS, iTunes 10, Johnny Carson, Kiki, language, Latin, linguistics, memes, memetics, Michael Moore, MMA, music, music theory, NOVA, Old English, PAX, Penny Arcade, politics, privacy, prostitution, Randy Pitchford, religion, Richard Dawkins, Russia, Seth MacFarland, Sicko, Simon Cowell, Stephen, Steve Jobs, subsidized medicine, TechCrunch, transubstantiation, Yakov Smirnoff