Comedy Wildlife Photo Contest
Thanks to NPR, this project absolutely delivers on its concept. I guarantee that browsing four years of 40-item finalist galleries will provide a brain vacation.
NPR’s own caption provides an elegant example of image description:
This squirrel in Sweden better have some wishes in mind — and fast — with the wind blowing those dandelion seeds like that.
Geert Weggen/Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2019
( you’ll be glad you clicked )
Sadly, the other 100+ images aren’t described at the Comedy Wildlife site.
Best Plum Weirdness with Bonus Wheelchair
I was happy to read this revision of William Carlos William’s irresistibly remixable poem, "This is Just To Say,"
This is just to say
I have built
a massive wheelchair
in my lab
that can climb stairs
And which
You were probably
hoping
could be affordable or fit on a bus
Forgive me
the likes from abled people were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Who rt'ed in here? (taylewd) August 31, 2019
Liz Jackson and the "Disability Dongle"
The Girl with the Purple Cane
Liz Jackson elizejackson writes about design and disability with clear insight and an acid tongue which make me happy.
A Disability Dongle is a well intended elegant, yet useless solution to a problem we never knew we had. Disability Dongles are most often conceived of and created in design schools and at IDEO.
#disabilitydongle on Twitter generated lots of responses collated on Medium.
sesmith uses the disability dongle concept to critique the wrong-headed focus on cutting-edge assistive tech:
It’s not just impractical and unsafe. It’s also wildly expensive. Breakthrough technology can cost more than a midrange car and most insurers do not cover it. Insurers, including private companies and Medicare/Medicaid, make durable medical equipment (DME) coverage determinations on the basis of demonstrated need, and they are notoriously choosy.
Disabled people don’t need so many fancy new gadgets. We just need more ramps.
There’s many more megabytes of Liz Jackson worth perusing