Two days I made a brief post letting you know I would be live interviewing Gallaudet President President Dr. Alan Hurwitz. The video is now available for your viewing.

Today, I will be live interviewing Dr. Alan Hurwitz at Gallaudet University at 10:00AM EST. The web address is ideafnews.com. Check their post about the live interview.

So was I at first glance. This is what the headlines should have read: “New AB2072 bill passed”. “New”. As in amended. Essentially, the bill was changed and the opponents of the original bill are happy with it. In fact, the “opponents” worked with Mia Orr on the amendments. Also as I understand it, it’s [...]

This e-mail came from a source who read federal district court papers made available to the public. Permission granted to re-publish at y3. ——————————- Ben Pena convicted by the jury on counts 1, 2, 3, 5, 6. Found not guilty on count 4. Verdict handed down at 2:45pm Eastern today. Trial ended at 3pm. The [...]

This is from AT&T’s National Center for Customers with Disabilities (NCCD). ————————————– Thank you for your inquiry regarding AT&T’s new TAP plan that will go into effect 06/07/2010. Below you will find a list of the new plans that will be available. If you are currently on a TAP plan, no changes will be made [...]

(Disclaimer: this has nothing to do with NAD’s recent posting of their letter to dictionaries which encloses their definition of audism. I applaud their effort to take a stance. I will be examining its enforceability on DeafRead and DeafVIDEO.TV. *Eyes open*) I was checking to see if Google had indexed my post, “Audism was just [...]

While Patrick Boudreault’s “neo-eugenics” term may be effective as an attempt to bring a profound perspective change, I do not compare oralism and cochlear implants to eugenics. My reason is found in the second root word of eugenics which is -genes. Neither oralism or cochlear implants involve genes. Cochlear implants surgeries are performed on and [...]

I wrote on Oct. 6 that captions benefits everyone, because it provides access to reading. Now there’s another immense benefit: Hulu.com has a new feature which allows searching by captions. What this means is if the title of a movie or show is forgotten, you can search for it by quotes you may remember in [...]

I’m not repeating this to rub it in – a earlier post, “DeafRead is not and never was dead“, didn’t appear to convince certain persons. How’s this for additional proof? DeafRead Top Ten – November 26, 2009 This time it’s a screenshot so the evidence is forever. Anyway, the meat of this post, as described [...]

y3 is my personal blog, therefore I reserve the right to choose which comments are approved. Comments that are not relevant, off-topic, or off the point are not likely to be published. There are many issues to discuss in the deaf community, so it’s incredibly easy for things to go off on a tangent. If [...]