In September I met the Library Director of the Effingham Public Library along with a board member-slash-web master. They asked me if I’d be willing to help them create a more dynamic and easier to maintain web presence. Naturally I enthusiastically agreed. Both of them had immediately grokked the opportunities that [...]

Andy Carvin posted today on Amanda Baggs, a “low-functioning” autistic woman who’s been using YouTube and blogging to communicate.
I found the first half of the video is extraordinarily moving and beautiful and in the second half, Amanda describes, nay, translates for us, the first:
…people doubt that I am a thinking being and since their definition [...]

I’m continually fascinated by the arc of the way women are portrayed in our culture. And I love it when they’re empowered to be satisfied with how they are. And that’s why I feel compelled to go on record in support and admiration of Tyra Banks for standing up for real women everywhere.
Obesity [...]