An opportunity to be a citizen Egyptologist

Ancient Lives
http://ancientlives.org/
is a project which invites citizen scientists to help measure and translate ancient papyri. No knowledge of dead languages is required--instead, the citizen scientist does a lot of visual matching. While the tasks involved are all visual, the site is nicely accessible and full of fascinating information, so break out your pith helmets, folks, and dive in.

An online introduction to iOS apps for blind users

From the TechTalk announcements list

An introduction to iOS apps
by Peter Cantisani, author of
Twenty-six Useful Apps for Blind iPHONE Users
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/APPS.html

Are you interested in the iPhone, iPOD, or iPAD? Are you wondering what you can do with your shiny new iOS device? Attend the Web presentation titled An Introduction To iOS Apps. Intended as an overview and not a tutorial, the presentation assumes the listener has had some hands-on with VoiceOver on whatever device he or she is using.
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I love the Internet

WallMonkeys is a Web site which produces wall decals, and it includes the ability to send them an image which they will turn into a wall decal. It's also a good source for finding access-related wall signs which are removable and cheaper than machined signs. Anyway, I love this image
Wallmonkeys Peel and Stick Wall Graphic - 24"H x 16"W - A Pretty Librarian in Her Wheelchair Shelving Books.
http://www.amazon.com/Wallmonkeys-Peel-Stick-Wall-Graphic/dp/B005GU8PDS/ref=sr_1_38?ie=UTF8&qid=1316007472&sr=8-38

San Francisco artist plans prosthetic eye-cam for creating transmedia art

Somehow, I failed to hear about this Kickstarter project while it was running but, happily, the artist did meet her goal.
Kickstarter page for
Grow a New Eye by San Francisco artist Tanya Marie Vlach
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/growaneweye/grow-a-new-eye
which describes the technical details and also--be still my little media studies heart--describes her transmedia ambitions for the eye-cam.