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But I am gladly tak­ing some of the credit (and some of the blame).

After a steady stream of child­ish snort­ing and gig­gling at the celebrity Twit­ter feed of Helen Keller, Paul told me he was going to make a Helen Keller web app based on the con­cept of an online lan­guage translator.

Thus the Helen Keller-izer was born. Some­how my rep­u­ta­tion towards inap­pro­pri­ate­ness got me credit in the dis­claimer at the bot­tom. What­ever the rea­son I am shout­ing the praises of this from the moun­tain tops, this is mak­ing me laugh out loud every time I use it.

Some­thing I think is fas­ci­nat­ing about Hellen Keller is how she is only ever remem­bered as the lit­tle deaf and blind girl who, through the help of Anne Sul­li­van, learned to speak, read, and write. Keller was extremely well edu­cated despite her defi­cien­cies and wrote sev­eral books. Fur­ther­more, she was also a social­ist and activist for wom­ens’ suf­frage. I have no idea why this stuff is left out of the his­tory books. Per­haps if Paul and I were raised to think of Helen Keller as a per­son of sub­stance and not a dis­abled per­son, we wouldn’t be defil­ing her mem­ory with this silly application.

Yes, Amer­ica, it’s your fault, not ours.

This video (via Dug) is worth a watch. I think its com­pletely amazing.