DeafRead Custom moves to Dashboard
DeafRead Human Editor Download DeafRead Custom has been moved to DeafRead Dashboard, the new login system at DeafRead.  DeafRead Custom allows you to set your preferences and control which blogs and vlogs you want or don't want to see on DeafRead. If you remember a while back, DeafRead Custom was developed in response to requests from many readers who wanted [...]
Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

When ID Theft hits home!
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out my day was going to get worse. Earlier today, I was talking with a fellow blogger that we thought about NTID's situation of the stolen laptop that contained the personal info may or may not hit on the NTID alumni community. We were thinking of revising our posts.Following the pick up from today's ...
Higher Education Tech Culture Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

We Got Sandy Allen, What About Tallest Deaf?
Blue Jeans Guy Hi readers,As many of you should know Sandy Allen, the world's tallest living woman recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records, passed away on August 13th of this year. She was living in Shelbyville, Indiana about an hour drive from where I live.In 1988 when I was a sophmore at Indiana Deaf School she came to give a presentation to the audience. I don't remember...
Education Culture Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Boo Dashboard DeafRead Custom!
Simply Saunière What was wrong with cookies for DeafRead Custom? I understand the argument that TaylerCo is making, but really, why couldn't they have left the cookie option too? That way people would have a choice. I don't appreciate being required to sign up for something, and I avoid it every chance I can. Big Brother, privacy issues, hackable data, and all that...BRING BACK THE C...
Tech Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Give Out Your Password? NOT! NEVER!
RSGeo-007 There's some AIM screen names, most notably "powerball4real8," that are being used to scam more deaf out there. Watch also for any with "emerson" in it, like "pacemerson247" that kept getting others. This time it's of someone who is trying to ask you for your password to "open the briefcase" to get the person their money.First, this is another variation of the Nigeria...
Tech Culture Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

In the Search of Deaf Surfers: part 2
deafsurfhistory.com Transcript: Hello! What a great time I had and just made it home back to San Diego! I began my trip up to Northern California starting in Eureka; cruising my way down south down California. I had many opportunities to meet great people, complete some unforgettable interviews, did many film shootings. I also participated in [...]
Art and Storytelling Culture Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Will the ASL Be An Endangered Language?
RLMDEAF "The Linguists" (2008) new subtitled film have been screened at many universities and linguistic associations and several film festivals to the acclaims of film attendees and linguists and university researchers. That film also have been shown at Yale University, University of London, University of Chicago and Purdue University this year.American Sign Language (ASL) i...
Media Language Culture Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Brain dead!
SURROUND SOUND ...that's how I feel :). These pills that I'm on have slowed my brain down to a crawl. The past few days I haven't done much besides sleep, play on the computer, and read...anything requiring serious concentration has been out! I took the pills faithfully for a few days...the first day I fell asleep and let the medication run out and was sorry when I woke up in a lot ...
Art and Storytelling Tech Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Being Bilateral
Sudden Silence It dawned on me in the past few days what a huge, tremendous difference it is to truly be bilateral.  The change in the way things sound is absolutely enormous.  It is the difference between just hearing sounds or noises when someone talks, and actually understanding what they are saying.  Sound completely changes. It’s not a [...]
Tech Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deafhood (Timelines)
At The Rim A deaf story, if culture is to have a recorded history why not start it now ? If you want to add ASL or BSL access, please feel free.....
Art and Storytelling Legal Culture Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

My Son, The Football Player
A Deaf Mom Shares Her World Early last year, my oldest son David, a sophomore in high school, announced that he wanted to play football. Inwardly, I cringed. Football is not a sport that I'm fond of. At least not anymore. I used to love watching football games with the hubby years ago. For several years, [...]
Culture Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Precautions Urged After Laptop Stolen
NTID News Personal information was on a laptop computer stolen from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on August 25. The information was encrypted, but included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of 12,700 individuals who have applied to NTID since 1968.
Legal Higher Education Culture Tech Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Hard of Hearing Person Frustrated by Captions
Jamie Berke (About.com) 10Walt posted on the forum: I am HOH and wear hearing aids. When watching TV I turn closed captions on with the thought that they would help catch the words I...
Tech Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Music Videos (Closed Captioned)
Where's Maisha? Like I said in the previous email, I really like music. It's difficult to find music videos with closed captioned nowdays. Time consuming has been removed by the advance of technology to add closed captions or subtitles on it. Youtube rated the worst place to find music videos with closed captions. However, Google Video has expanded its potential to add closed cap...
Tech Tue, Sep 02 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Job Interview Issue
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Language Culture Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Wyoming AIDS Walk, 2008
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Jamie Pond and I walked in the Wyoming AIDS Walk on April 19, 2008 to raise awareness about the problem of the Deaf HIV/AIDS epidemic. Fellow marchers were friendly and the weather was sunny and clear. We invite everyone to march in their local AIDS walks with signs and information to raise awareness of Deaf issues until the CDC and national funding agencies recogni...
Education Culture Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

AIDS 2008, Opening Ceremony, Sunday August 7
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities Between August 7 and August 14, I was in beautiful Mexico City with 25,000 other people for the AIDS 2008 conference. In the next couple of days I will be posting on the events of the week, from the colorful dancers of the opening ceremonies on Sunday to the great outreach program led by Donald Pilling of CSSQ on Thursday evening. The opening ceremony was held at a ...
Language Culture Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

AIDS 2008, Monday August 8
HIV/AIDS, Deafness & Disabilities On Monday, I presented a paper on Deaf HIV infection rates in the United States. Only the state of Maryland keeps any figures on infection rates and those point to an epidemic being ignored by the larger public health authorities in the US including the Centers for Disease Control (the CDC). Deaf people consistently test HIV+ at about double the rate for hearing peo...
Culture Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

More Sample of Filipino Sign Language
Filipino Deaf from the Eyes of a Hearing Pers After receiving sizeable interest on my recent blog about Filipino Sign Language, I became more eager to show you one more.
Language Culture Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

The clarification of the previous post
The deaf boy in the world I was reading through the comments that people left on my blog. I'll have to say that most people are turned off by the word that I decided to use "rut." I know that the way I used the word make my message come off as harsh. That's the way I use to appeal to people's emotions about MY personal perspective.I basically need to have my processors on everyday because I he...
Tech Culture Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Sorry, Apologe...
Deaf Flower Sorry but.... or Sorry if....
Language Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Welcome Fall 2008
The Deaf Sherlock G'day Everyone!Happy Fall 2008! For some of you, you've just entered back into school and colleges. For others, we're all busy with everything else going on. It's a time when we're getting out on the holiday and taking drives through the countryside, seeing the trees begin to shed the wonderful green leaf to *star bursting* colors. It won't be long before they all st...
Higher Education Culture Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Doctors with a Hot Bedside Manner!
An American Mom in Tuscany: Jordan's Cochlear I'm dealing with two kids, my Dad and a husband in heat, while trying to build an empire. I'm a little overwhelmed, especially because I haven't been blogging. Blogging helps me maintain my sanity, what's left of it.If I've been in limbo the past year and a half, now, I'm at the starting gate ready to bust out to take on the first lap (obviously I'd be running the Pre...
Tech Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Deafhood Discoursed
At The Rim I'd like to explain what, I feel is basically the issue with 'Understanding Deaf Culture' i.e. 'Deafhood' Via Paddy Ladd.Basically he used a format, a terminology, and a language, that is difficult for most deaf to follow. Whilst we appreciate a fully signed ASL or BSL version is a massive undertaking, the paragraph I highlighted on my vblog was about making things s...
Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post

Finding Captioned Movie Trailers from Movie Sites
bill creswell This may be only for the more technical of you. This solution requires Firefox, the Greasemonkey add on, and “the movie dude” Greasemonkey script. Starting with Firefox, add the greasemonkey add-on by going to the Greasemonkey add on and clicking install. This will require restarting Firefox. Then go to this page, and install the movie dude user script [....
Media Mon, Sep 01 2008 hide this blog flag post bookmark post