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Blind Film Critic Tommy Edison reviews the movie “Hangover Part II”. He explains how the movie is mostly made up of “sight gags”. Tommy shows us how a couple of sight gags appear to him by showing you the joke with the picture and then showing it without the picture.

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Humans are incredibly adaptable creatures. Find out how Daniel Kish sees with his ears, while Erik Weihenmayer uses his tongue, and Dugan Smith continues to play baseball with a backwards leg.

AssistiveWare has a wonderful group of videos on its site, a collection that Yahoo!’s Accessibility Lab draws on frequently. To understand the impact of assistive technology on the individual experiences of disability, these videos are terrifically useful. If you know of other videos that serve a similar purpose, we’d love to hear about them.

Unless you are a feminist, geek or academic, you have likely not come across the Cyborg Manifesto. It was written back in 1985 as an exploration of how the boundaries between human, animal and machine are blurring

It's been a great week in accessibility: Chipotle forced to make their accessibility as good as their food, jamming music to help disabled children with social and motor skills, Netflix adding captioning to iOS apps,