RIP Quassia, 01/16/98-10/16/08.
Goodbye to the only guide dog with a Microsoft blue badge.
The world has a little less YAAAAAAY today.

I think this essay on multiple literacies of blind readers by kestrell is great. And I can't stress enough how much I agree with its very last sentence.

If you have a scanner and OCR software, what scanner do you have and do you like it ( Read more... )

Yay Youtube.
repository of perspective

Why do sighted people who cross against the light when there are no cars coming tell me that I cannot/should not do the same?

My Goodreads review of the first book in years that I've chosen to give up on before finishing.


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Here's a quiz in the Guardian (I scored 8 out of 12 and was soundly mocked for it ( Read more... )

Over at Crooked Timber, there's a post by Michael Bérubé on presenting at the "Cognitive Disability: A Challenge to Moral Philosophy ( Read more... )

I left a comment on a fairly well-known blog commenting on an issue I had with part of what the ( Read more... )

Of all the attempts to explain the current economic situation, this one's not half bad. Plus, it's pretty funny.

Speaking of funny, a comment on another post at the same blog actually made me laugh out loud. The context was in regard to torture, and then went to killing in self-defense.
Exactly. You may love dogs as I do, but when there's a ( Read more... )