Recently, my good friend Mike Calvo appeared on Wall Street Journal Live and said a number of things that I believe are misleading and or incorrect. As a matter of disclosure, Mike and I have been good friends for a really long time. I respect Mike for the many contributions he has made to access… Read more about Rebuttal to Mike Calvo on WSJ Live
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Want, Want, Want!
I enjoy Twitter. I use it daily to hear about news in science, skepticism, secularism, humanism and other interests. I also follow lots of friends and I’ve developed online relationships with a lot of people around the world. For one like me who spends his days at a computer, Twitter provides a fun way to… Read more about Want, Want, Want!
The Snake Lady
By: Gonz Blinko 11/3/2012 “Play some Pistols!” I yelled, somewhat drunkenly, at the rock cover band playing in a dive Seaside Heights bar. “Play some Ramones!” The band, who did have some punk in their repertoire, instead launched into some more mainstream rock song. I bellied up to the bar and got myself another Budweiser…. Read more about The Snake Lady
Actors Inside 2012 Edition
On a Friday in 2006, I lectured at an undergraduate class in Occupational Therapy at University of Florida. One of the questions I received from a student and, coincidentally later in the day from a professor wondered if Braille would go obsolete now that we have all of these cool electronic reading systems. As the class and… Read more about Actors Inside 2012 Edition
The Hands That Feed
Why do organizations that claim to advocate for people with vision impairment choose to take action against companies that do a good job with accessibility while giving a free pass to many that do nothing for our community? Yesterday, I was talking to my friend and Serotek CEO, Mike Calvo. He enthusiastically told me about… Read more about The Hands That Feed