Wow!
For quite some time, CSPAN1 and CSPAN2 have offered live streaming of the televised portions of congressional activity. They’re captioned on TV, but of course on the Internet not so much. So in following political stuff, I’ve had to scramble around for transcripts and such since my job precludes me from […]

Good heavens:
With New Device, Police Shake, Rattle and Roll
Meet the Rumbler.
The high-tech blaster is being used along with the traditional siren. It is aimed at grabbing people’s attention and getting them to make room for officers responding to emergencies, helping police navigate through traffic faster and safer. People can feel it from about 200 feet […]

Spotted this article this morning: Trials for ‘bionic’ eye implants
Sounds like it works on the exact same principle as the cochlear implant (although I can’t tell from this whether it destroys residual vision in order to do so). It does say it only applies to specific types of blindness.
I think it will be interesting […]

Just stumbled, courtesy of and , across the Nicaraguan Sign Language issue. It sounds absolutely fascinating: Here is an article from NY Times (”A Linguistic Big Bang“), plus some further discussion by ozarke on her journal. There’s any number of fascinating aspects to this, but to summarize, deaf children in Nicaragua have […]

I always keep an eye out for tips like this: I don’t use mac but perhaps some of you do and would find this a pretty neat (and quick) tip for getting ALL alerts to flash instead (as opposed to program by program)… Do More With Alert Sounds

I stumbled across Jott today. This looks like a free service (apart from the normal cost to you and your service for receiving text messages making calls, etc, of course) that takes a short voice message and transcribes it to email or text you. I wonder if this might be a very convenient […]

Wow…it works (the scanner you can purchase at Library Thing). And I’ve got linux, so that’s great news, it seems to be bullet proof.
I am SO in trouble Just wait ’till I get home tonight…

You know if you go over to http://www.cafepress.com and search on “deaf” there’s a whole bunch of really fun stuff available.
I like the noise pollution ones, and the one that says, I’m deaf; if you’re screaming at me, you’re stupid…

Being that I’m a paralegal, though I don’t work as one, I went looking for the court filings so that I could see them myself. They don’t appear to be stored online, unfortunately. I emailed the public defender’s office with a query about the filings. Here’s what she said:
Thank you for your […]

UpdateThe public defender for Wright is at tsmith@minnehahacounty.org.
Her lawyers are preparing a defense for her that basically says that she’s too stupid, on account of being deaf, to be properly tried for anything:
Court papers filed by Daphne Wright’s lawyers say that people who’ve been deaf since early childhood have severely limited vocabularies and a hard […]