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"Now on DVD: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly""

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Blogger Polistra said...

I've also been puzzled by the "missing Morse" in assistive tech. It's naturally faster than any sort of "wait-and-select" method, but it's rarely used. Morse would be vastly easier for blind & deaf folks as well; they generally use a clumsy method of finger-spelling inside the curled fingers of the other person. Morse would be clearer, less ambiguous and much less clumsy.

5/24/08, 7:57 AM

Blogger tom barnes said...

Everybody deep down wants to believe that the sick brought their illnesses on themselves, because that means that, if you're careful, you'll never die.

Hey, great comment,nowadays Humanity is so obsessively conative, so naggingly purposeful, that populations in modern, industrialized, rational economies are not at all comfortable with the irrational or just the lack of a reason. In the middle ages you could chalk up the irrational to God's will...now who can you tag with the responsibility? Uhh...it must be the corporations or the government, something big and amorphous and powerful like God. But cancer is always attributed to behavior which was why Andy Kaufman(Latka on Taxi) getting lung cancer was such a mind blow. He never smoked.

5/24/08, 8:53 AM

Anonymous beowulf said...

Damn Steve, good catch with the morse code.

Why on God's name did they re-invent the wheel-- even the very slowest Ham Radio license (FCC elimiminted code requirement 2 years ago) only required 5 WPM morse code proficiency, that's 300 words an hour.

5/24/08, 10:48 AM

Blogger TGGP said...

This "facilitated communication" thing has featured much worse frauds.

5/24/08, 11:37 AM

Anonymous Peter said...

Hey, great comment,nowadays Humanity is so obsessively conative, so naggingly purposeful, that populations in modern, industrialized, rational economies are not at all comfortable with the irrational or just the lack of a reason. In the middle ages you could chalk up the irrational to God's will...now who can you tag with the responsibility? Uhh...it must be the corporations or the government, something big and amorphous and powerful like God.

Consider the recent claims that vaccines are causing an epidemic of autism in children. There is very little or no scientific evidence supporting the claims, in fact it's not even certain that there is an autism epidemic at all, yet the belief is spreading like crazy and is leading more and more parents to leave their children unvaccinated.

5/24/08, 7:59 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"Damn Steve, good catch with the morse code."

I have to think everyone caught that one. In fact, the system the woman came up with was ridiculous, and even morse code was hardly optimal. Probably the best system would have involved a combination of blinks and eye-directional movements--something like semaphores.

5/24/08, 8:03 PM

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