Thomas Paine's Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
Koko is one of the world's most renowned gorillas - reared from birth, she learned her first sign within two weeks, and after 25 years can now use 1,000 different signs in American Sign Language. By Ari Solomon 10/28/09 In a recent interview with Larry King, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain quipped that it was OK for humans to kill and eat animals because we've been designed to chase down "smaller...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oxford to the Alps A new route to the slopes launches this winter, linking Geneva with the recently re-branded "London Oxford" airport, north of Kidlington. Baboo (00 800 445 445 45; flybaboo.com ), a Swiss airline with five planes to its rather odd name, will run weekly Saturday flights from December 19 until March 27 (or later) from £180 return. Sign language The Signspotting series,...
Coolopolis (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
As predicted here at Coolopolis, the notion that local Mafia had firebombed a dozen Italian cafes would be disproven and indeed cops are now searching for an 18 year old named Mickendy Demosthene, 18, who has 32 friends on facebook (although his sister has hit four digits). Cops released the photo at the top left of the suspect. From all the photos they could have chosen off his profiles, they chose...
Style Child (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Both her parents are professors at a large college, and they all live together in a college town with a dog. The professor's daughter loves the outdoors, but she also loves reading and movies and the internet. She also likes museums. She can come across as sort of aloof, because she is. It stems from shyness and deep love of education, as well as a slightly Plato-esuqe (knowledge = goodness) way of...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
They have learnt combat from the US Marines and tactics from war veterans. Now, they will learn a vital mode of communication from a Chennai-based school for the deaf.
Family Law Week blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The term “D/deaf” is used to refer to the whole range of deaf people. “Deaf” with upper case “d” denotes those who consider themselves to be linguistically and culturally deaf through use of a shared language (BSL) and culture. The word “deaf” with lower case “d” denotes those who have a hearing loss and do not use sign language.I quote below...
Alexandre Testu (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
“Yeah, I wanna give this all up and feed the homeless. I wanna give this all up and teach orangutans sign language. I’m gonna bike around the countryside with my sketchbook . I’m gonna – what? Help improve race relations in this country? Run for fucking president? Read my lips : spare me.” - Bret Easton Ellis, Glamorama .
Tenderfoot Diaries (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I checked the outside temperature just to see how cold the breeze was just before starting our noon time run up the hill. Temp was “43, feels like 34” at weather dot com. This morning I had packed my exercise clothes expecting only to visit the gym but the fresher air was more enticing so running friend and I hit the trail. It was a lovely run on a chilly but gorgeous day. I was glad for...
Comments for kokonutguy (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
David Armand illustrates in "Where I Lay My Hat" what sign language and English via lyrics/music can accomplish in a visual way with a comedic twist. This is the influence I've envisioned that sign language can have on the hearing world, that it can add so much more import to what hearing people already hear. Not to mention that d/Deaf people "get it" that much quicker. :) His performances...
Watching the Detectives (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
On my trawl through the week's schedule looking for things to record, I found a lone episode of Kojak on ITV in the middle of the night/very early morning depending on your perspective. I watched it last night and it transpired it was one of those shows with a person doing sign-language in the corner of the screen (or the Little Man as my niece used to call this service). At first I wondered if it...
Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Dealing with some technology is challenging enough for the hearing-impaired without scammers taking advantage of federal dollars meant to help them. That's exactly what has happened with the Federal Communications Commission's Video Relay Service (VRS), however, and 26 people were arrested Thursday for scheming to steal "tens of millions of dollars" from the program. VRS was first launched...
Gone Hollywood (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Stevie Wonder Is On Twitter?!?? – Celebrity Smack Mya Is Ready For A Break! – Pop Eater Kate Moss Offends Fat People – Holy Moly Brad Pitt Still Looks Like Mountain Man – Popbytes Liam Gallagher Knows Sign Language – Tabloid Prodigy Mariah Carey Demands Kittens – Celeb News Wire Alexandra Kerry Is…Wait Who? – Fatback Media Beyonce Goes Crowd Surfing...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"Where Are Your Keys?" is an open source, high-speed language game that uses sign language as a "bridge" to learn any spoken language. The sign language supposedly keeps you from thinking in your native language while allowing other players in the game to know what you are thinking. The game, according to its creator Evan Gardner, is based partially on another language teaching...
The Common Room (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I am thankful for a Savior and for songs. I am thankful for sign language so the Cherub has some means of communication. I am thankful for the gift of speech, and also for the gift of silence. And I am thankful for the gift of sound and for friends who share links like this one . It's so amazing I don't want to give anything away by sharing even an excerpt. It is both beautiful, and horrible. Deeply...
Tabloid Prodigy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Mild tempered, good Irish boy Liam Gallagher was snapped on his way to his car in London yesterday, and being the delicate soul he is, he let the paparazzi know exactly how he felt about it.
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