Archive for February, 2008
Obama and Clinton debate
The New York times has made the 2/22/08 democratic debate between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama available as an interactive speech to text webtool. Making this tool available is helpful to voters looking to analyze the debate. FactCheck.org provides more useful analysis of the statements made by both candidates. The text to speech tool is interesting in and of itself. A similar application is MIT’s Lecture Browser which allows you to search and locate any of MIT’s online lectures that contain a search term. You may then drill down to the exact moment that your search term is referenced. You can follow each video lecture while a cursor iterates through the text of the lecture. The remarkable thing is that the text-file is generated electronically. Remarkable given the quantity of jargon and the range of accents and inflections with which to contend. The lecture browser doesn’t appear to to be supported in Firefox.
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Interactive human anatomy model
Argosy’s VisibleBody is a comprehensive human anatomy visualization tool. It includes 3D models of over 1,700 anatomical structures, including all major organs and systems of the human body. Features include, fully interactive 3D human anatomy model, detailed models of all body systems, dynamic search capability, easy to use 3D controls. The Visible Body is only available on the Internet Explorer Platform.
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Track Congressional bills and votes
OpenCongress makes it easy to track what’s happening with your government.
Now you can build a personal profile on OpenCongress of the bills and legislators that you’re tracking, network with other users, comment and vote on bills, and much more. To get started, create your own “My OpenCongress” profile, it’s free and only takes a minute.
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New language learning site
Livemocha is a sort of mashup between a social networking and language learning site. Mocha describes itself as providing community, lessons, and motivation. Best of all it hooks up native language learners with interested accolytes. Total immersion is the best and most fun way to learn. This looks like a pretty convenient approximation. Languages include English, French, Hindi, German, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese.
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