NY Times series on mainstream tech for people with disabilities

Today's NY Times has a second installment in a series of articles about how mainstream tech is being adopted and adapted by PWD. The subject of today's article is text-to-speech
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/text-
to-speech-technology-reaches-an-inflection-point/?partner=rss&emc=rss

JaJah launches Twittercalls

JaJah is about to launch the ability to make phone calls through Twitter, which I expect may make Twitter more usable for a variety of people with disabilities. There will be a 2 minute limit on the Twittercalls, more here
http://thenextweb.com/2009/09/17/phone-calls-twitter-call-username/

Poe, Poe, and more Poe+ a little bit of Lovecraft

The University of Texas’ Ransom Center has digitized their
Edgar Allan Poe collection
http://research.hrc.utexas.edu/poedc/
including books annotated by the author. The collection was launched to accompany the bicentennial of Poe’s birth.
The digital collection incorporates images of all Poe manuscripts and letters at the Ransom Center with a selection of related archival materials, two books by Poe annotated by the author, sheet music based on his poems, and portraits from the Ransom Center collections. Poe’s manuscripts and letters are linked to transcriptions on the website of the Poe Society of Baltimore.
There’s lots of interesting stuff, including some manuscript pages that would be lovely printed out and framed or used as part of a collage.

This site is collecting
Poe's Ultimate Song List
http://www.houseofusher.net/songs.html
which is any song about Poe or any song or spoken performance based upon his works.

Need more Poe? How about
The Tell Tale Heart (UPA, 1953 )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4s9V8aQu4c
And for some variety, here are
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/