Each of the three cases we have discussed here--My
Gimpy Life, Easy Chirp 2 and Google Glass accessibility--represents an innovative approach to disability and media that is premised upon and supported by participatory culture.
Disability media participation: opportunities, obstacles and politics
"He will have the
Gimpy and if he sees anything suspicious he will report it down the line."
HEROIC SCOTT IS A DRIVING FORCE; UK Forces fighting in Afghanistan need to keep moving in a range of vehicles. But each needs fuel to stay operational. In the fourth of his Echo reports from Afghanistan, BEN GLAZE speaks to a tanker driver from South Wales transporting diesel in a war zone
And yet she got the message, the agony, the ecstasy, as well as a serious case of prickly shivers running everywhere unrestrained, most hotly all the way down the back of her smoothly muscled good leg and the
gimpy one, too.
The Shelter
"The car is only about 90 percent there on the outside and about 40 percent there on the inside." Still, the
gimpy, far-from-real fiberglass prototype is pivotal for the company.
Miles to go for the Tesla Model S
A year into the odd couple's union, fate comes knocking at the door (to the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth) in the form of Melody's Bible-spouting mother Marietta (Patricia Clarkson, in typically high-drama mode), who greets the sight of her daughter's irascible, elderly,
gimpy hubby by falling out of frame in a dead faint.
A return to Gotham, but not to peak form
At various junctures, most particularly when a
gimpy, bespectacled wrestler assaults Rourke's character with a staple gun, the film verges on farce.
Rourke back off the ropes
"The fact that no one asked a single question about his
gimpy foot revealed that this crew had much more experience in trailing Britney Spears than Peyton Manning."
Guacamole on your shorts: searching, futilely, for the Super Bowl's deeper meaning
It then uses
Gimpy or some other program to distort the fonts and other visual features, with the goal of preventing computerized image recognition.
Logging in and getting off: login, labor, literature, and the subject of the net
Carnegie Mellon students developed
Gimpy, the most familiar form of this reverse Turing Test, which "selects a word from an 850-word dictionary and converts it to a mangled image of itself, warping letters and adding distracting ink spots, colors and backgrounds." Researchers Battle E-mail Stealing Web Bots with Identity Checks, USA TODAY, Dec.
Puzzling logic: the constitutionality of Congress's "logic puzzle" e-mail filters
America has long been proud of its own Eighth Air Force, but little has been heard from the Brits who flew the creaking Wellingtons, the
gimpy Halifaxes and finally the superb Lancasters through the night skies of Europe.
Mattingley, Christobel. Battle order 204; a bomber pilot's story
Gray in the muzzle and
gimpy in the hips, I slowly walk to the rag rug next to the hearth where I turn in two tight circles, ease myself down, haunches first, and then stretch my front legs out, putting my chin on them.
Leadership: an old dog's View
But Lerman--born poor in Spanish Harlem; raised ambitious in Jackson Heights, Queens; done with classrooms after high school, a graduate instead of fashion magazines, emigre salon culture, and a 1930s New York underground of drag clubs and homosexual speakeasies; Jewish,
gimpy, autodidactic, and "queer" (his word); a quick study and a glad hand, with his Turkish cap, purple sheets, and "royalist fantasies"--this Leo embodied upward mobility, class transgression, and theatrical reincarnation.
New books
A needle in the spine, the
gimpy stretcher-bearer we called John the Barber searching for the ankle bone as he cut our plaster casts away, measuring his prowess by the screams his pliers evinced.
Writing the pain: reflections on illness and memory
The Propaganda Minister's
gimpy moments walking or dancing are sometimes amusing, and yet his club foot also serves to increase the sense of menace surrounding him.
Representing Spanish identity through espanolada in Fernando Trueba's The Girl of Your Dreams (La nina de tus ojos)
Adapted from a 1965 novel by James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy is a story about the relationship between a dim-witted hustler named Joe Buck (Voight) and Ratso, a
gimpy con man played by Dustin Hoffman, set in a rampantly depraved New York City.
Seminal stories: riots in front of the Stonewall Inn in the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, quickly became an emblem of the modern-day pride movement. So why weren't they on the front page of The Advocate?