Ha, thought this was funny and clever too.
Two buddies are out hiking and they come across a bear. One of the guys takes off his backpack and gets ready to run. His buddy says, “It’s no use. You can’t outrun a bear.” The other guy responds, “I don’t have to outrun the bear. I only have to outrun you.”
BANKSIA Secondary College student Ashleigh Kedge is one of her school’s greatest success stories. And that was before she found out yesterday she had earned a study score of 49 out of 50 for one of her subjects.
Ashleigh’s feats are especially remarkable because she was born deaf.
Her dedication has taken her to the top of the state in VCE Auslan (sign language).
Ashleigh, who taught herself to lip read and speak as a child, said she was shocked by her study score of 49 in Auslan.
Wow.
Saw this from friendsofwashoe.org that Washoe, the first non-human to learn sign language, has died.
Washoe was the first non-human animal to acquire a human language and her adopted son Loulis is the first to acquire a human language from another chimpanzee.
Her name sign is formed with the fingers of a “W” hand flicking the ear on the same side. She was named for Washoe county Nevada where she lived with Drs. Allen and Beatrix Gardner until age five.
Washoe was adopted on June 21, 1966. She was cross-fostered; that is, she was raised in the Gardners’ home as if she were a deaf human child.
She was 42 years old, a long life for a female chimpanzee. Most females in captivity live an average of 33.5 years.
I’ve always known that chimpanzees were capable of learning sign language but never thought about who was the first non-human to learn sign language. This sounds like something that should go into Guinness’ World Records.
As usual, I was surfing and saw this page showing YouTube and Products results in the sidebar above the sponsored ad. Talking about Youtube, we all know that people earn a lot through the popularity of video and I think buying youtube views really does work
I cropped up the images so you can see the difference.
So, Google is combining videos, images, news, and products into the search . That said, Click here because it’s a universal search and the one with the fastest engine. I’m convinced that there is no other search engine that can output results as fast as Google does. It’s like you are in a Millenium Falcon (the fastest spacecraft in Star Wars) zooming through the universe.
He’s the guy in the orange shirt and know what? he happens to be my co-worker as a graphic illustrator. I can’t believe the video clip he made has been viewed 6,903,499 times and even more that his desk is right across from mine. His work is awesome.
The street view of my favorite building, the John Hancock Center.
Ha, I love how he phrases Twitter as a conversation ecosystem. Graphics are ass-kicking that I have to put them on here.
Everyone should use Twitter.
by Jan-Karl, as told to Dustin Glick – the artist
Click on the pic to see the full comic strip.
I was working on a new version of DeafPulse.com (yes, finally!) and saw this post from Gizmodo about AT&T bringing back the data-only plan for the deaf after killing the plan because people were complaining about how unfair the plan was.
Ha, one Gizmodo staff wrote this:
We wouldn’t usually call people douchebags lightly (ok we would), but when you complain that deaf people are getting special treatment when they’re offered a $27.99 non-voice, data-only plan for their iPhone, you’re one huge douchebag. A Colorado AT&T store was offering said plan for the hearing-impaired—since they get very little use out of a voice plan—but got slapped down by AT&T Corporate Marketing because people were complaining. The upshot? No more data-only plan for the deaf community.
Then they posted again that an AT&T rep told them that there was no such moves to take down the plan but that they plan to offer data-only plan in the near future.
Somebody made a nice comment:
I’m a hearing AT&T iPhone user, and it would totally piss me off if AT&T required deaf people to pay for a voice plan that they cannot use.
I was about to fire off a nastygram to AT&T based on the earlier article when I had a rare moment of clarity and decided to check for an update…
Good call for AT&T to bring back the plan!
So, I’d like to ask if anyone has bought iPhone and has the data-only plan? With this plan, iPhone can go back on my Christmas wishlist. :-)
I knew it. It was a matter of time before Gmail would integrate AIM in. About a year ago or so, Google signed a partnership with AOL and offer their search engine into AOL network.
Looks like I don’t need to use AIM client. The OS is all in the browser.
Saw this from a friend’s blog. I’m beginning to wonder why Asians are so good at skating? probably because our legs tend to be short and strong.
She skated like it’s nothing to her!
I found his biography while surfing around. He’s a 15 years old who describes himself as a tech-savvy teenager who once posted 5 consecutive days and each of the post made to the homepage of Digg.com, which is an incredible feat to me and he’s averaging 50,000 visitors a month. I’m only averaging about 2,000 visitors a month and would be a dream if my site ever gets dugged.
Founder: Glenn Wolsey
Official URL’s: http://www.glennwolsey.comDescription:
Glenn Wolsey defines, by some standards, the potential of modern web success. Glenn is a 15 year old budding designer and technology enthusiast. His future in technology, became clear in 2005 (at the ripe age of 13) when he took home 1st place in the New Zealand Web challenge. Glenn now maintains a successful blog, Glennwolsey.com and writes for New Zealand’s Mac Magazine. Glenn’s Blog does not receive gigantic, “Tech Crunch” traffic, but maintains a consistent 50,000 monthly visitors; a phenomenal number for a 15 year old.“Digg Factor”
The definitive standard referred to earlier is the Digg factor. Wolsey, after moving to the (gs) Grid Server, had a taste of the newest form of web rock-stardom in the form of a Digg. Getting “Dugg” entails the posting of your product launch, blog article or video on the front page of Digg.com. Featured Digg pieces are “Dugg” by thousands of Digg members. The more “Diggs” a piece gets, the further toward the front page the piece moves and the more traffic the site will receive.Getting Dugg often results in a site being shut down or simply crashing do to the traffic and load surge that accompanies this phenomena. Most typical shared hosting set ups are not able to handle massive load surge without creating a problem for neighboring clients on a shared server.
Since January ’07 to the time of this writing, Glenn’s blog posts have made it to the Digg.com front page 8 times.
If I had the money and could live anywhere I choose to, the John Hancock Center would be the place.
Why? While it’s not the tallest building in the world, it is the tallest residence building in the world, meaning you can own a piece of room—-a condominium—-right there in the building. It also has the highest level swimming pool too at the 44th level. There is a very logical reason why it’s come like that.
A brilliant civil engineer named Fazlur Khan invented a structural technique called X-bracing that wraps outside around the building, resulting into a stronger structure and eliminates the need for inner support beam inside the building. Thus, you get a wide-open room without beams, perfect for people who are deaf like me.
It is truly an architectural icon with its angular lines and has the perfect “grey” color—not too dark, not too light. Batman would feel right at home here.
If you ever come to visit this building, do try to visit the Signature room instead of the Observatory where you can actually order drinks and enjoy the awesome views while sitting in a comfy chair, not waiting in visitors lines!
Wallpaper download link:
Not a very long ago, I start tracking what people have been searching that leads to my site. I put down 100 search terms below. There are more than 13,200 search terms.
You can go to this page to see full results.
1 The Death of Ivan Iiych story written by Leo Tolstoy
2 deaf in korea
3 wayne betts jr funny
4 "flat panel TV" "best time to buy"
5 whitetail snowboard
6 no sound from rebuilt mini ipod
7 Lenovo Opti Desktop PC
8 blackberry pearl cannot hear
9 cool quotes + This too shall pass
10 free calvin & hobbs snowmen wallpaper
11 significance of white blackberry pearl
12 sushi asl
13 wayne betts jr. deaf
14 honda civic ep hatchback review
15 auto life expectancy bmw 325i
(more…)
Does anyone know how long has the website been down?
He posted on his old blog that it would be up on October 26th, 2007. He’s definitely the top deaf blogger because if you type deaf blogger into the google search, his blog would come out first on top.
By looks of it, it appears that he forgot to renew his domain registration and that somebody has taken property of the domain. If that’s the case, hope he can get his website back without paying a lot for it.
Awesome! finally a website showing Google maps and captioned movies.
Looks pretty good to me and updated.
