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Caption Success Story with Game Show
Art & Entertainment, Editorials, SF Bay Area, Uncategorized

Caption Success Story with Game Show

By Bobby Cox November 11, 2012

Recently, many people in the signing community have pushed hard for more captioning on internet video — from Netflix to YouTube, Amazon to Hulu; and I want to share with you a success story! When a friend tipped me off to a Kickstarter campaign for a web series of shows about a fantastical arcade where…

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On Reading Levels
Editorials, Language & Culture, Uncategorized

On Reading Levels

By Bobby Cox January 15, 2011

Jon Henner posted a great article here and at Deaf Politics about deaf education and various relevant statistics. There are profound implications for the deficiency in reading level in our deaf and hard of hearing peers.  Citizenship depends on reading level: the simplest newspaper, USA Today, is written at a fifth grade reading level, which is just barely…

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Hearing Privilege
Editorials, Language & Culture, Uncategorized

Hearing Privilege

By Bobby Cox December 11, 2010

Hearing privilege is a concept that’s come up often in discussions in and around Deaf Echo posts that deserves to be called out and looked at in depth. I also find that it has personal relevance: some uncomfortable situations have come up with my family that made me think of this important concept. Let me…

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Art & Entertainment, Uncategorized

Stuff Deaf People Like #1: Feeling Up Car Door Handles

By Bobby Cox August 17, 2010

This new series attempts to address an age-old mystery:  Listing stuff deaf people like.  A mix of science, art, and foolhardiness. Idea taken from Stuff White People Like, which is hilarious and far funnier than I could ever hope to be. Next time you go for a drive in the neighboorhood with a deaf person, observe him…

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FaceTime is the Future
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FaceTime is the Future

By Bobby Cox August 11, 2010

I believe that the platform known as FaceTime, introduced with the iPhone 4, is the future platform of choice for all video telephony in the deaf community. I don’t say this because I’m a Mac fan, or for any technological evangelism purposes. I say this because it just makes sense. First, a little bit of…

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SF Bay Area, Uncategorized

Relay-Interruptus (Or, I Just Want a Damn Pizza!)

By Bobby Cox January 11, 2007

Ok. I am sufficiently fed up enough with relay services to write Yet Another Deaf Rant About the Relay. Let me paint a picture for you. MacWorld, San Francisco (a conference I’m currently attending). Hunger. Dinner time. The buzzing city all around me. Ah! Round Table Pizza (The Last Honest Pizza)– a delectable treat for…

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Humor, NYC Metro, Travel and Leisure, Uncategorized

New York City Subway

By Bobby Cox December 11, 2005

Date:11/27/2005Location:4/5 toward Grand Central Station. Yes, you read that right. Today, my topic is not about Washington DC’s beloved (or not so beloved) Metro system. Instead, I will be writing about it’s wrinkled older brother—the New York City Subway. The folks in New York City opened their subway system in 1904. Back then, it was…

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