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Archive for the ‘disability’ Category

June 18th, 2007

Autistism and Thinking Like an Animal

“Thinking” by Don Shank
Temple Grandin is an assistant professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She wrote Thinking in Pictures and has made numerous TV appearances. She is mildly autistic, which has given her a unique insight into the way autistics think. She contends it is very similar to the way that prey animals, […]

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June 11th, 2007

Seeing Eye Pony (With Tennis Shoes)

If I saw one of these in real life, I’m not sure if I’d laugh out loud or run away screaming because I got the creepy-crawlies. I do think the addition of the tennis shoes make it the former. Maybe.
This is a seeing-eye pony. Miniature horses have many advantages over seeing eye dogs, the primary […]

By Wade Meredith -- 4 comments

June 6th, 2007

Webtribes; Social Networking for Black Sheep

Photo: svanes
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door”
This is the engraving at the base of The Statue of Liberty, but what if it was on the home […]

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June 1st, 2007

Putting on a Dress Shirt and Tie with a Prosthetic Arm

More good stuff from theguywiththehook over at Youtube.
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May 23rd, 2007

Nick Vujicic: Life Witout Limbs, Life Without Limits

Nick Vujicic is a congenital amputee that was born, otherwise, healthy. He is now a motivational speaker, and a very good one, at that.
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May 21st, 2007

Amputee Tattoos Entire Arm to Look Like a Big Finger

What do you do when life gives you lemons? Crack a joke, apparently. Or at least make someone do a double take.
This guy may win the award, in my book, for coolest tattoo. He looks to be an above the wrist amputee and has had his whole arm tattooed to look like a big finger. […]

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May 10th, 2007

Video: Monkey Controlling Robot Arm with His Brain

I, for one, welcome our new mechanized, fury overlords.
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April 26th, 2007

Roger Ebert is a Heroic Badass

Roger Ebert has taken to quoting a certain piece of Raging Bull dialog, and for good reason. When he says, “I ain’t a pretty boy no more” he means it, but only the first 5 words. He’s just undergone a round of surgeries for cancer in a salivary gland that had spread to his […]

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April 6th, 2007

Massive Disability Resource List

Makoa.org is a no-nonsense site that looks to be one-stop shopping for those with living with disABILITY (sic). From the “about” section:
These pages were created and are maintained solely by Jim Lubin, who is a C2 quadriplegic, completely paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a ventilator to breathe, using an keyboard/mouse emulator with […]

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