The Internets Are Alive

With the sounds of awesome.

It seems that with increasing frequency there are neat things being made on the internet. One of the latest things to catch my eye is a site called animoto.com that takes images, videos, and a soundtrack and turns them automatically into a pretty good slide show.

Here is the one that I made as a promo for the two fantasy football leagues that I am running this year (my teams are the Tea Republic ones):



Not too bad, the only trick is that the timing of the images are preset so I had to edit the music some to fit the amount of images that I had. In the end I am happy with the video it made though.

In other news work is keeping me busy, so I haven't had the time lately to post. I am working on things though that should give me more stuff to post about, so stay tuned for that.

Ookami of the Snow

Marvel has a nifty web app where you can make your own Superheros. I think that I would make an ok superhero.

Check it.

History : Wiki :: Math : ______

The answer is Mathway. Wikipedia has all the answers for almost every subject in history, and most of them are well thought out and correct. Now take that idea and apply it to math and what do you get? A website that can handle many of types of math problems, can give you the answers to those problems and show all of it's work.

No longer can a teacher just give the homework problem to evaluate this integral:

Because even if the student got the right answer it is possible that he just copied the answer from Mathway. (Click on the equation above to see how to solve the problem.) This means that math will have to start to move away from computations for homework and go towards applications, which is a better way to approach homework in the first place.

I would have loved to have this website when I was going to school.