June 18th, 2007
“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
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 […]
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June 6th, 2007
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
More good stuff from theguywiththehook over at Youtube.
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May 23rd, 2007
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
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
I, for one, welcome our new mechanized, fury overlords.
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April 26th, 2007
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
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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