From engadget . I read about this display technology years ago. I'm glad to hear it is nearing commercialization.

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I think making music with loops could make an exciting activity for kids with a variety of disabilities. Unfortunately I know next to nothing about it. I'm collecting links to useful looking pages so I can think about ways to enable kids to play with music.

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I've been annoyed for months by my laptop selecting my neighbor's access point over mine. On every startup I'd have to make sure I was using our network. I looked a few times but apparently with the wrong search terms. The answer is to use gconf-editor as described here . One point that momentarily fooled me, you do not want to use sudo for this.

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Diane P pointed me to this interesting looking book " Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design ".

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An interesting story over at ScienceDaily about an RPI student's camera-based head-tracker music system . This will be very popular if they make it freely available.

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Detects vowel sounds in audio input to control the cursor . Nice use of commodity technology. I hope they make the software available for free.

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I'm continuing to think about the usb visual alert for people who are hearing impaired. Tonight I saw this article on writing a linux USB driver and it points to this source of cool controllable LED lights .

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From eWeek.com :

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My students all have Office 2007 so they are sending me .docx files. This helpful post on Ubuntu Forums works great.

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What Autistic girls are made of by Emily Bazelon is an interesting read.

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