That didn’t take long. Edwin Charles Tobergta III finds himself in the news once again. Guess why. Police said Edwin Tobergta, 35, was seen having simulated sex with a pink life raft on Route 4 at about 8 a.m. Witnesses said Tobergta was nude and in view of nearby businesses and passing cars. He was …
Monthly Archives: June 2014
Are The Accessible Voting Machines Really This Difficult?
I want to sympathize with Steve Cutway, I really do. But unless he can’t read Braille (he apparently can), is slow (I get the sense he’s not), has never opened a bottle or in some other way figured out how a raised arrow works, never got lessons from the adults in his life on what …
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Elections Ontario: We Make Voting Easy…Except We Don’t.
I was going to write about this anyway, but then I got a request for it. Awesome! People like reading about our wacky adventures. I feel bad that this is only going up the night before the actual election day, so can’t help anyone else who might want to use assistive voting, but oh well. …
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My Current Pick For Favourite Song Of 2014
It’s always fun when a song catches your ear out of the blue, at a time when you least expect it. I first heard this one while Carin was still in the hospital. It was at the point when we were well and truly into mystery illness (when the hell is she going to ever …
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Kill CAPTCHA Campaign
No idea how much of an impact this will have, but since it certainly can’t hurt to try, I’ll pass it along. The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network has started a letter writing campaign aimed at convincing websites big and small to remove the CAPTCHAs from their websites and replace them with more user friendly, …
No More Fleksy VO?
Previously, Carin wrote about the decision of Fleksy’s developers to split the app into two versions, one for users of Voiceover and one for everyone else. There’s been some movement on that front, movement that was made back at the end of April but that we’re just getting around to now because hospitals and weddings. …
At The Corner Of Kissy And Gropey
So remember yesterday when I said that sometimes there’s no good explanation for something? I don’t see a line about drugs, alcohol or mental problems in here, so this might be one of those times. Police say a 35-year-old man kissed and groped women and a man inside a Walgreens store on April 23. The …
A Non-Inspirational Inspirational TED Talk
I saw this tweeted as I was coming home on the bus the other day…who knows why I was looking at Twitter while riding the bus, but there I was. I watched it, and thought “hey, this is totally what we’ve been saying in different forms in the blind guy user’s manual over the years.” …
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The Sound Of Floppies
And now, The Sound of Silence as performed by a bunch of disk drives. Music to the ears, isn’t it?
Happy 25th Birthday, News Of The Weird!
If you read this blog and actually like it, first of all why, but more importantly, you owe a bit of a thank you to a fellow by the name of Chuck Shepherd. If not for him and his News of the Weird column, I and to an extent Carin may not have the sorts …
