I had the chance today to spend 15 minutes with Will Arnett, one of the stars of the new Will Ferrell/Jon Heder comedy “Blades Of Glory“. I caught the film earlier this week and it’s very funny, a lot funnier than I expected it to be actually. Definitely gets higher marks than Talladega Nights.
I’m very pleased to have author Staton Rabin back on the show. She first joined us in February 2005 on episode #18!
She joins me today to talk about her new book:
It’s a fascinating period of history that I know very little about: Rasputin, the February Revolution, Anastasia, Alexei, etc. As I said to Staton on the show, everything I know about Rasputin I learned from Boney M.
James Farmer is seriously frakked. I mean, I love the guy. He’s a nice guy. He’s helped TPN out, we’ve had fun on the radio, he set up the Start Up Stories thing on The Age, I’ve got a lot more respect for him now that he’s decided to pull his pants all the way on and quit his job as “guy-who-gets-newmedia-but-pretends-he-doesn’t-either-to-curry-favour-with-
deadwood-management-or-as-linkbait” to become a full-time entrepreneur.
But then he goes and writes shit like this and makes me laugh so hard I don’t know whether I should be in on the in-joke or if he seriously believes this kind of shit.
Should the fact that he used a word like “twee” be a tip-off?
Well, anyway, here’s your Technorati post James. Is this what you wanted???? 🙂
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This is what YouTube is all about: watching Jason Alexander, pre-Seinfeld, singing in a McDonald’s commercial.
Dick Cheney’s hatchet man Scooter Libby has finally been sentenced to jail for the Plame affair. I’ll still be surprised if he actually does time inside the big house. All his legal team need to do is keep the appeals process going long enough until Bush’s last day as Prez when he can safely do a Jed Bartlett and pardon Libby while nobody is looking.
If you’re in Melbourne and you have an interest in online digital media, then make sure you get your pixelated ass to MODM #2 this coming Thursday night. Register now. We have about 50 people at the moment. Make sure you join our Facebook group as well, because I think it’s going to be a key tool for us.
Eliezer Yudkowsky (recently heard on G’Day World #238) is back. This time we’re having a discussion about another one of Eli’s favourite memes – rationality. We had originally planned to discuss his “Twelve Virtues of Rationality” but got side tracked into why “faith” and “religion” are irrational and dangerous and… well… we never really got onto what we planned to talk about. So we’ve agreed to have another crack at this one in another couple of weeks. Next time we’ll stick to the script.
Anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed today’s chat as well. As I explained to Eli afterwards, I don’t really think these shows will change the minds of many religious types. In fact, I’m pretty sure they have mostly stopped listening to the show.
The idea of these shows now is to provide some tools and arguments for those of you who find yourselves having discussions with your religious friends and family. So take notes (or get the transcript!!) and do your part to make the human race completely rational!
Now… folks… this isn’t radio. This is podcasting. It’s supposed to be a conversation, not just me talking at you.
