by Team Grype | Jun 26, 2014 | Grypes |
Good news! Our Robot E Lee Kickstarter is almost completely funded, with 19 days to go! That means we’re almost certain to reach our goal. We still need a few more donations to push us over the goal line, though. Technically almost all of the pledges so far have...
by Team Grype | Jun 24, 2014 | Grypes |
This is the first time I’ve done this here… but I’m going to take a poke at a specific meme that’s been kicking around the web for a while. That infographic seriously leaves a lot to be desired. In fact, it leaves out quite a bit of pertinent...
by Team Grype | Jun 19, 2014 | Grypes |
As a former UseNet and chat room aficionado, I spent years on the internet debating angry Christians and angry atheists, angry Muslims and angry feminists, angry Liberals and angry Conservatives, and angry Dems and angry NeoCons. Though all presented interesting...
by Team Grype | Jun 17, 2014 | Grypes |
So the Walmart of online-media-by-mail, Amazon.com, has now allowed its false “customers come first” mask to slip, revealing the ugly truth: it’s a corporation, and as such is now being pressured by its greedy shareholders to increase its profits...
by Team Grype | Jun 10, 2014 | Grypes |
A few words about our ever-useful (if sometimes ravenous) economic system, upon which rest the hopes and well being of the Western world: The god of capitalism is profit. In a capitalist environment, if a business venture of any kind wishes to survive, it must face...
by Team Grype | Jun 5, 2014 | Grypes |
There’s an interesting theory called Linguistic Determinism (sometimes referred to as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) that suggests that language limits the way we think about things. Meaning that if a language doesn’t have the necessary words to define a...