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Is the Cannes Film Festival so pretentious they ban wheelchairs from the red carpet?
Montreal film director Sean Marckos was rejected twice from the red carpet, and has caught it all on tape. For more click here.
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Floor-buffing wheelchair new low in offensive inventions
Japan aims to make people in wheelchairs more useful by creating a floor-buffing and cleaning wheelchair. I like wheelchair snowplows, but for some reason this pisses me off. I think it’s because the person in the wheelchair has absolutely no control of it. Talk about an invalid-ey feeling. – Tiff
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Senator suggests no more “free scooters” to aide Recession; causes uproar
Save hundreds of billions, but strand millions? I’m not quite sure how this works. The audacity! – Tiff
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Wheelchair “UFO” spotted at Burning Man. Was it you?
Hippie festivals are always full of crazies. But disabled crazies? Even better. Check out my blog on this badass wheelchair art and other ponderings on hippie festivals if you’re disabled! – Tiff
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Remains of 4,000 year old paraplegic found in Vietnam
Why would a community care for someone with such a major impairment in a world where 50% of people didn’t make it past age five? Read my thoughts on this amazing discovery here – Tiff
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Near death, man goes on “awareness” journey across nation from wheelchair
Denied a heart transplant, disabled vet David Whittaker has took it upon himself to drive his power wheelchair from Florida to Washington (state). Will this prove anything or will he only get in the way of traffic? Read my blog here – Tiff
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Wha? Some actually wish to be have an amputation
I’m always endlessly amused by the wack-job psychosis that humans can sometimes develop. Acrotomophilia – the desire to be an amputee – has to be one of the weirdest ones out there. These individuals strongly believe they were destined to be an amputee, and won’t feel complete/whole until an amputation of one of their limbs (usually a leg, beneath the knee) takes place. Click for the rest here – Tiff
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Bizarre facts about having a spinal cord injury
Everyone knows what a spinal cord is (pictured left, courtesy of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis), and a lot of people can even correctly say (especially nowdays, thanks to Christopher Reeve and stem cell research) what a spinal cord injury is. But the bizarre add-ons – the wacky things that happen to your body when your spinal cord is decommissioned – do you even want to know? If you’re the kind of person who thrives on the bizarre, or if you’re you aiming to get on Jeopardy, then this blog is for you… Click here to read this rest. – Tiff
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“Video Courtesy of Shell Oil Company”
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html Check out this video of a giant squid with ELBOWS, people. It’s seriously one of the most disturbing things you’ll ever see. Why is this video posted by National Geographic, and courtesy of the Shell Oil Company (taken from a camera set-up on an oil rig), worth watching? A: It’s alive. B: It’s really fucking long. C: It looks like a bonafide alien. Hmmm…maybe it is?? – Tiff
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You Lose Gov’t Spray Paint Dude
