Woke up early this afternoon, turned on the radio by my bed, and heard this interview:

This one's especially for haddayr, to help make up for all the stupid she ran into from Autism Speaks, yesterday. Though it's nifty for the rest of my f'list, too, I think:



Now, I have a choice to either fill this post with the handful of other nifty stuff I've found in the last 72 hours, that have nothing to do with each other except niftyness... or I could spam you throughout the day.

I think I'll spam throughout the day. :-) some days could do with a liberal sprinkling of nifty.

okay, the spamming with media links is coming faster than I thought.

But I needed emergency measures of cheerfulness.

here, have some New Who Silliness:

One final embed for a while, I promise.

As you know, I've been fishing through YouTube (now that I can) looking for vids in ASL to help keep those passageways of the brain clear.

One of the sensitive issues among Deaf vloggers is whether or not to provide captions in English. On the one hand, there's the whole question of: we have to cater to you Hearies' comfort level all the time, anyway, why should we expend extra energy to make you comfortable when we're talking amongst ourselves, with what we do to have fun?

On the other hand, not all deaf people know Sign, and signed languages are no more universal than spoken languages (British Sign Language and American Sign Language are mutually unintelligible, for example), so there are those who argue that not putting captions in your vids divdes the D/deaf community.

One guy I've found puts captions on all his vids out of principle, just so that the example is out there, and to prove that it can be done fairly easily. He also puts them in as closed captions, so you can switch between turning them off and turning them on. I like this, personally, as a language learner, because I turn the captions off, so I don't become dependent on them, but then, turn them on to double-check that I've caught everything.

Anyway, I don't like every vlog he does -- a lot of them are funny mostly to his personal friends, I'm sure. But here's one that I think may appeal to the gamer geek / horror spoof fans on my f'list.