To attend the Drinking Liberally debate watch party. They're going to have debate bingo and take bets on how many times McCain will say, "my friends" and Obama says "Look ...". I wonder if they'll bet on how many times McCain brings up his war experience when it's not relevant.

I love that the BBC actually had a real news story about this. (In general, I've noticed they do a far better job of covering disability-related issues than any US media outlet including NPR ( Read more... )

And again
how much do I love Jay Smooth

Michael Palin for President

The work trip to San Antonio went really well. But it's hard not to enjoy a trip where the team you work with keeps telling you that your visits are invaluable and that they love working with you ( Read more... )

I have a bunch of blogs in my RSS reader, and during work lulls, I skim it to see what's new. Not surprisingly, some (but not even close to the majority) of the things I read are accessibility tech related. (The disability-related links are the ones I share most often, because I figure they may be the ones that are less likely already to have ( Read more... )

This piece gets at a frustration I've always had with media depictions of people with disabilities, including myself. And the conclusion is one I agree with, and realized at some point when I was in high school when the newspaper wanted to do a story about my being a National Merit finalist, and wasn't it amazing and inspiring how this blind girl ( Read more... )

plushy particles!
I'm particularly (sic) fond of the theoreticals, myself. And the quarks, but who doesn't love quarks?

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't intrigued by the iPod Nano with Accessibility features. I really do want to see it in action, and wonder what Apple's not telling us (because, if history is any example, there's always something they're not telling us*)

The thing is, I don't need one ... like, at all. I've got a 40gb accessible music player in ( Read more... )

It is so busy getting us riled up over stupid-ass domestic crap, that we completely ignore far more interesting stupid-ass crap, like the world being destroyed on Wednesday.
I had no idea!
It really is true. We Americans really have no sense of perspective.

Thanks to Charlie Stross's blog for mentioning that there are far more interesting ( Read more... )