If you’re here to check up on the 2008 NZ Boccia Nationals, please click here for the Boccia LiveBlog!

I came across this 2-minute YouTube clip when googling ‘walking is overrated’, and found it so compelling I thought I’d share it with you all. It was added to YouTube on the 29th of June 2007, so theoretically, this guy coined the phrase way before I did! But anyway, I digress, check out the video below and bask in this guy’s wicked spin on life. Literally.

Fresh from Jenny winning our latest iPod Nano competition, I’m extremely pleased to announce our next competition, where thanks to the awesome folk up in the SkyTower, the winner will get to experience the dizzying heights of Auckland’s SkyWalk! Competition is open NOW, and entries close August 10. I’ll announce the winner the following week! Awesome! What do I have to do to win? All you have to do is send me an email telling me about the most exciting

Keen on Boccia but can’t make it to the nationals? Maybe you’ve got a friend or family member playing down at nationals in Christchurch and want to keep up with how they’re going? Well fear not, as I’m going to be covering the 2008 NZ Boccia Nationals LIVE from Christchurch, so make sure you bookmark the Boccia LiveBlog page, which I’ll be updating regularly over the coming weekend with pictures and results as they come to hand. I’m looking forward

Apologies for the late notice folks, but for those of you interested in the ongoing ACC vs. MOH saga featuring Melanie Trevethick, this issue will be played out in a full debate tonight on TV One’s CloseUp programme. It’ll definitely be worth a watch so make sure you tune in from 7pm!

As undeniably awesome as Walking Is Overrated is, it’s been ‘picked up’ by something even awesome-er. Check out disability.alltop.com for a comprehensive database of the best disability blogs from around the world! Admittedly, this site is on there, but it’s a great one-stop-shop for disability-related news and opinion from people all over the globe. Check it out!

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Well, now it’s become apparent that half of Americans would rather be dead than disabled, I thought I’d take it upon myself to show everyone that being disabled isn’t all that bad, really So here’s the first in a collection of my own images that I’ve oh-so-wittily added captions to. More to come – let me know what you think!

In what came as quite a shock to me, more than half of the respondents of a recent online poll said they’d rather be dead than severely disabled. Really? Dead? It’s not that bad, honestly… Reuters reports: In the online poll commissioned by Disaboom, a website and social network for people affected by disabilities, 52 percent of the 1,000 “nationally represented” adults chose death over losing the ability to live an independent life. Disaboom, which launched the survey to better