(Just kidding, we don’t mean you.) My place of work seems to have an awful lot of blood drives. Where I hail from, you go to the Red Cross (which is capitalizing on the current vampire craze with the cute “Starve a Vampire. Donate Blood” campaign) to give up your precious bodily fluids. For reasons [...]
Jul 262010
Jul 242010
If I have to choose between walking and painting, I?d much rather paint.
Via WHEELIE cATHOLIC: For those who are blind, dyslexic or have diseases like multiple sclerosis and have difficulty turning book pages, reading the latest best seller just got easier. Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian and founder of a virtual library called the Internet Archive, has launched a worldwide campaign to double the number of books [...]
From the Boulder Daily Camera: As he showed the cyclists tricks to getting wheelchairs to fly using a stationary trainer, Katja Stokley, 50, of Longmont, gave the riders a chance to take her racing chair for a spin in the gym. Brad Ray, a wheelchair athlete who has completed 49 marathons and is determined to [...]
Jul 032010
Great piece from FWD/Forward about portrayal of disability in the media today: Up today, ‘Inside the life of a person with disabilities,’ a feature that recently ran at an Ohio ABC affiliate. This article and the accompanying video read like the journalist closely read haddayr?s ‘Plucky Cripples Don?t Let Lack of Bingo Card Stop Them‘ [...]
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