Western Pennsylvania Health Information for Deaf, Deafblind and Hard-of-Hearing website launched in evening of May 27, 2009.

The website address is: www.healthbridges.info.

The description:

A newly developed website seeking to provide reliable health care information to people who are Deaf, Deafblind and hard-of-hearing, in a format that is accessible to all. In addition, it is our desire to encourage effective communication between healthcare providers and patients by educating both about individual perspectives, rights, and obligations in the healthcare setting.

All of you know who I am writing in very blog here, I developed healthbridges.info site with a team of our deaf task force in Pittsburgh. The site is 100% powered by WordPress, web publishing platform, to ease my development work in my spare time.

I learned something new in my web environment which I never thought of: Deafblind. My priority goal is to have this website is 100% accessibility. I used the free evaluation web tool, WAVE - Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool to track down the accessibility errors and fix in our web site to ensure this is full accessibility for all - especially Deafblind.

I am very grateful to have my learning experience with group of deaf task force, shared the feedback, discussions, and challenges.

The Simpsons: Season 20, Eposide 17. Aired on April 19, 2009. Titled: The Good, the Sad and the Drugly.

Runtime: 22 seconds.

Nelson Muntz does his ASL fingerspelling: "Haw Haw!".

Anyone noticed the yellow-skined human genes in Simpsons only have four fingers?

Seinfeld - Season #5 (1992-1993), Episode #70: The Lip Reader. Aired on October 28, 1993.

After the restaurant. Jerry at Laura's place.

Jerry: So I really had a good time.

Laura: Yeah, me too.

Jerry: So you want to go to the party on Friday night?

Laura: Yeah.

Jerry: All right, we're taking a car service. So we'll swing by and pick you up. How about six? (Laura looks offended). Six is good. (Laura looks offended and angry). You got a problem with six? (Laura opens the door and gets out). What? What?

(Commercial)

......

At Jerry's apartment.

Jerry: See I was saying "six" but she thought I was saying "sex". We straightened the whole thing out though.

George: She confused "six" with "sex"?

Jerry: Yeah.

George: Well if she can't tell "six" from "sex" then how is she going to lip read from across the room?

Jerry: Well "six" and "sex" are close.

George: It's two completely different sounds. "ih" and "eh".

Jerry: Eh.

George: It seems like a problem.

Jerry: Well I'm not dating any other deaf women.

Should I date hearing woman? Depends on hearing woman understanding in Deaf culture and communication in America Sign Language.

Via Illustrator Blog-alloon.
Source: SeinfeldScripts.com - The Lip Reader

I remember back in late 1990s when I discovered the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) on emulators and illegal ROM games, became craze in Internet.

Until yesterday, my friend shared with me, to check out the gaming site: vNES or Virtual NES, that allows playing any 8-bit Nintendo games (including homebrew and unreleased games) on web browser without needing to download into local hard drive.

The only real requirement to play those 8-bit games is that you need Java 1.5.0 or higher to play on the computer.

The only interesting part in my mind about vNES, can this emulator be played on Internet Browser over gaming platforms I own: Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DSi and PlayStation3? I bought my time to take some experiment to try this out if it is compatible with browser platform. I selected the vNES game page, Super Mario Bros 3 to try:

Wii: Internet Channel
Developed by Opera Software, I just discovered that Opera does not support Java package. The screenshot would look like on my 42-inch LCD HDTV:

The screenshot displayed: "Because of a lack of the Java Standard Edition environment, vNES is not currently supported on the Nintendo Wii."

Source: Wikipedia - Wii Internet Channel
Wikipedia - Opera Browser

Nintendo DSi Browser (Titled: Opera Browser)
Another one for Opera Software, I tried to get into selected game to play, and I get the whole black screen on web browser with nothing in there:

PlayStation 3 Internet Browser
Built by Netfront (a microbrowser for embedded devices) and developed by Access Co. Ltd. of Japan, I get the same whole black screen as DSi.

Conclusion
All three gaming platforms with Internet web browser application does not support Java 1.5.0 package which is required to run and play Virtual NES games, it is sad to see that I am unable to play NES on web browser-based emulator on gaming systems.

What can I say? I enjoyed it...

Been avid Flickr user since 2004, I just discovered that my few photos made into Flickr's Explore page. I like to call it interestingness.

Flickr gave us the definition of the interestingness:

There are lots of elements that make something 'interesting' (or not) on Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic content and stories are added to Flickr.

As of March 11, 2009, out of 1,540 photos posted in my Flickr, I had nine explored pictures, six are currently in and three were dropped.

The tools can be found in Scout: Find your photographs in Flickr's Explore to take a quick look to find if your Flickr photos are explored'.

Who says Steelers is the best NFL franchise today?  After Steelers won Super Bowl XLIII, I have seen Steelers on Sports Illustrated (S.I.) cover several times, and I am wondering our Steelers S.I. covers compare the other NFL teams that have the most SI covers:

On the front cover image, Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens are on the cover, this is an example how many covers each team appeared in SI covers to count.  I have gather all the numbers from SI Vault:

Our *Steelers* oldest rivaly, Cleveland Browns with one SI cover?!?

Reference via: SI Vault

Holmes game-winning is memorable and awesome. James Harrison 100-yard interception touchdown return is far and the most unique play I ever seen in my lifetime in Steeler glory.

Incredible. I can't recount how much this play describle. An unbelievable play that many will say changed the course of the Super Bowl.

With less than 20 seconds left in the 2nd quarter on the Cardinals goal line, just moments away from the scoring, James Harrison intercepted Kurt Warner's pass and runs from the goal line to the next for a 100 yard touchdown. A new Super Bowl record for longest yard. Later in the game, the play resulted the Steelers won the Super Bowl.

Here are the essay of greatest play, via Mondesishouse.com:

Pre-snap Reads:

- Cardinals three receiver shotgun set, one right, two left, with left sidecar halfback going towards the Cardinals end zone

- Steelers two down lineman, three defensive back/linebackers showing blitz, three man-to-man defensive backs on receivers, a safety & two linebackers in midfield zone

(clock is right, followed by play-by-play, with ball placement left)

00:18 #13 Kurt Warner hikes ball; Steelers rush #25 Ryan Clark, #56 Lamar Woodley, & #94 Lawrence Timmons (Pit 2)
00:17 #91 James Harrison intercepts #13 Warner's quick slant pass intended for #81 Anquan Boldin (Pit GL)
00:15 #74 Reggie Wells 15 yard facemask of #94 Timmons (later declined); #94 Timmons puts the first block on #74 Wells (Pit 8)
00:14 #51 James Farrior blocks #81 Boldin out of the chase (Pit 16)
00:12 #25 Clark blocks #63 Lyle Sendlein; #26 Deshea Townsend blocks #13 Warner (Pit 26)
00:11 #56 Woodley blocks on #34 Tim Hightower (Pit 36)
00:10 #24 Ike Taylor boxes out #82 Leonard Pope, both run into #26 Townsend & #13 Warner; #91 Harrison runs through a falling #13 Warner (Pit 42)
00:09 #43 Troy Polamalu bumps #11 Larry Fitzgerald off-balance; #99 Brent Keisel blocks #75 Levi Brown (Ari 47)
00:08 #26 Townsend slows down #11 Fitzgerald; #94 Timmons blocks #74 Wells forcing #11 Fitzgerald to dodge out of bounds(Ari 41)
00:07 #56 Woodley blocks #34 Hightower as #91 Harrison sidesteps(Ari 34)
00:03 #69 Mike Gandy falls short of making the tackle as #25 Clark falls into him (Ari 9)
00:02 #91 Harrison is caught & wrapped up by #11 Fitzgerald & then #15 Steve Breaston (Ari 3)
00:01 #91 Harrison falls on the legs of #11 Fitzgerald into the Steelers end zone (Ari GL)
00:00 Touchdown is signaled by official #9 Mark Perlman; Replay Assistant challenge, play Upheld, Touchdown Steelers, 17-7.  End of First Half.

(10) Cardinals involved in interception return; #'s: 11, 13, 15, 34, 63, 69, 74, 75, 81, 82
(8) Steelers involved in interception return; #'s 24, 25, 26, 43, 51, 56, 91, 94, 99
Steelers breakdown by influence: 24:1, 25:3, 26:3, 43:1, 51:1, 56:3, 91:5, 94:4, 99:1

Phenomenal. Pittsburgh Post Gazette declares the name of play, 'Immaculate Interception'. Similar the word of play came from NFL greatest play in history, Immaculate Reception.

Also, don't miss the excellent NFL Films video: SB XLIII anatomy: James Harrison's 100 yard dash.

Steelers won NFL-record sixth Lombardi Trophy in 43 years, I took Terrible Towel in every picture.

Steelers fever.. I bleed black 'n gold.

This is my 7th annual top 25 personal choice images in year 2008, I dumped twenty-five photos into my Flickr set.

Also, don't miss checking out my annually top 25 images between 2002 and 2007.