22 April 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Bitcoins are back! Or are they? Simon Ponder joins Kevin and Stephen to find out whether they’re worth Beliebing in.
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Bitcoin, Boston Marathon bombing, Carlos Arredondo, cocaine, currency, Dot Com bubble, drugs, economics, fiat currency, gambling, Kevin, Lindon Dollars, PBS Idea Channel, ponzi scheme, Prague, real estate bubble, Satoshi Nakamoto, Scotland, Second Life, Silk Road, Simon, speculation, Stephen, The Love Guru, Val Kilmer, value, Yap
08 February 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Have you ever noticed how fast food that you buy never looks like the pictures? Oh, or gotten super frustrated when you plug in a USB port backwards? Have you ever just wished that everyone followed a simple set of rules for living? Now… have you ever thought about writing hyper-rational, detailed rants on these issues [...]
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Aaron Sorkin, alphaila, Amazon, Android, Arrested Development, Bob Ross, books, Captain Vimes, Dario D, design, Discworld, Dustin Hoffman, E2, Ed Helms, engineering, falliblism, fast food, Fathead, induction, Ira Glass, Kevin, Kindle Fire, Luck, Max Headroom, Michael Moore, modernism, Newsroom, paper, paternalism, poetry, post-modernism, Sicko, Simon, Slings and Arrows, society, statistics, Stephen, Super Size Me, technology, TED Talks, The West Wing, The Wire, Tom Naughton, truth, TV, USB, Who Killed the Electric Car
02 January 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
The Bad Philosophers share their (non-apocalyptic) predictions for 2012 and beyond over some delicious beer.
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17th Precinct, 3D, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas, Aaron, apocalypse, Apple, Avatar, Avernum: Escape from the Pit, Barack Obama, Battlestar Galactica, Century City, Community, Confucius, cruise, Day-Glo, Dennis Kucinich, Dr. Webb, e-ink, exercise, Facebook, Facebook Timeline, film, Glee, Godspell, Hipstamatic, Hypnotoad, Instagram, Isaac Asimov, J. J. Abrams, Jacie, Jon Stewart, Kaypro, Kevin, lomography, Newsies, Next New Networks, Oink, photography, Pokemon, Polaroid, politics, Reddit, Rifftrax, Robert Heinlein, Ron Moore, Ron Paul, Russian, sci-fi, Simon, Skyrim, Smash, SOPA, Sorkin, Spider Software, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate Universe, Stephen, technology, The Hobbit, The Impossible Project, The Newsroom, The Wire, theatre, Tony Awards, Turkish, TV, United Nations, universal healthcare, Vanity Fair, YouTube
30 December 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
One of BF’s largest panels ever dives into the moral choices in contemporary video games like The Old Republic and Skyrim.
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2012 Election, 2012 Olympics, Aaron Sorkin, Arrested Development, beer pong, Beyond Good and Evil, Blackberry, Britton, consequentialism, darts, debate, deontology, dreidel, ethics, Fatal Frame, GameBoy, games, golf, Humble Bundle, Jedi, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Kiki, Kindle, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, Laughing Squid, law, Major League Dreidel, masturbation, Microsoft, Mists of Pandaria, MMORPG, morality, Pokemon, Pokemon Snap, Quidditch, racism, Runescape, Simon, Sith, Skyrim, soccer, sports, Sports Night, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Stephen, storytelling, video games, witches, World of Warcraft, WoW
09 October 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
The human race lost one of its finest this past Wednesday, as Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56. All of us here at BF had opinions to share on the man in the black turtleneck, so Kevin, Jed, Simon, Kiki and I gathered together for our first live-streamed episode in quite some time. [...]
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Apple, Bill Gates, computers, DOS, IBM, iMac, iPhone, iPod, iWebcamera, Jediah, John Lassater, Kevin, Kiki, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Live, Macintosh, Newton, Pabst Blue Ribbon, PC, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Pixar, Simon, Stephen, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, This Week in Tech, Thomas Edison, TWiT, Twitter, UNIX, Xeni Jardin
