Wednesday, March 31, 2004

IBM Research | Projects | Text-to-Speech
This technology was demo'd in yesterday's item. Here, you can type in your own text, choose a voice, and have your text spoken to you.

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Eternal Egypt - Home
Wow. I couldn't begin to describe the wealth of features in this site. From the Flash intro screen to the timelines to the maps and artifacts; webcams, animations, 360 views; just amazing.

Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, along with nine musems, partner agencies and our good friends at IBM produced this incredible site.

Oh, to top it all off, IBM embedded text-to-speech translation on all of the artifact description pages.

Monday, March 29, 2004

TUTANKHAMUN'S TRUMPET
This is indeed the best of the Internet. Hear a 3300 year old trumpet played --for the only time in three millenia. The wonderful instrument shattered on its first playing!

Also, at this link: NPR Performance Today

Thursday, March 25, 2004

Web3D Consortium - Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication
A new site from the Web3D consortium, with all things about "Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication". Do check out the UNREAL Realm of Concepts demo. Incredible! (You'll need the Flux Player, which I couldn't get to intstall in Mozilla).

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Movies vs. Auschwitz OpinionJournal
Some stories need to be remembered. In every media.

Monday, March 08, 2004

Erma Ora ByrdCenter for Educational Technologies
Yeah, as in Senator Byrd. Like half the rest of West Virginia, this center has his name on it. Still, you might find some hints here.

Sunday, March 07, 2004

Whodunit? Public Enemy #1 PBS | American Experience
A game to collect and identify fingerprints. From the John Dillinger film.

Friday, March 05, 2004

Wednesday, March 03, 2004

Media Psychology - Division 46 of the APA
Caveat bloggee, I guess! The American Psychological association maintains a division for Media Psychology! A haven for dubious scholarship, I'll bet. Still, you may find a treat here or there to get into kids minds. This link is the list of grad schools in the subject.

Monday, March 01, 2004

Custom Mapping System
Lets you creat your own maps! Produces maps in jpg, or PNG, and uses SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). SVG, by the way, is rapidly getting standardized. Mozilla Firefox 0.8 comes with SVG; you must turn it on, though.