Obama and Romneys Bayonet Memes

The last Presidential debate was last night, and although I did not catch it, Ive heard lots about a comment Romney made about not having as many Navy ships as before, and Obama says something along the lines of we no longer have bayonets either.

Apparently this has become so awesome online it has become a meme. Washington Post has an article as well as other funny memes posted here: (sorry there was no share button)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/romney-saddled-with-horses-and-bayonets-meme/2012/10/23/7c340d3c-1d14-11e2-b647-bb1668e64058_blog.html

Readings Oct 17

I read the article "When Presence-absence Becomes Pattern-randomness: Blast Theory's Can You See Me Now?" by Maria Chatzichristodoulou in our book Digital Visual Culture, I thought that the game Can You See Me Now sounded really interesting, but I had a hard time understanding if this is a real life game or a visual game. It appears to be real life, but I just cant understand how the whole thing works. It sounds interesting that you should somehow include people you have lost contact with and there are runners, but I guess besides that I dont understand the point of the game or how it works.

I did really enjoy the bit on the video games like Grand Theft Auto and The Sims (both of which I have played before, and still really love playing the sims). I think I liked Grand Theft Auto because I found it so ridiculous and hilarious. I remember when it came out I couldnt believe this game was actually being sold. And when I would play the Sims I remember my mom teasing me because she said I was essentially playing "house". So I found it interesting that even our text says that the Sims was "particularly popular with females"and referred to it as a "electronic doll's house" (Benthowska-Kafel, Cashen and Gardiner 95).

I think its interesting how people like to play games based on reality; what I mean is, something such as the sims was/is so popular, and some of the things sims do are based on what we do everyday from washing dishes to going to work. Who would have thought that a game such as that would be so fun and popular? Why isnt it as much fun to to the actual real life chores and other daily activities? Why is doing these activities on games so much better?

BlackBerry users are embarrassed

I came across this artile on Yahoo! today, and it caught my eye. It goes into detail about users who are embarrassed by their devices, to the point that they refuse to bring them out in public for other people to see. One person even compared it to MySpace, and several people admit to being frustrated and even feeling rejected by others for owning a BlackBerry. Apparently, the BlackBerry just doesnt hold a light to iPhones or Droids (I dont own a smartphone so I wouldnt know).

I think people who are this emotionally charged are ridiculous and shameful. I also found this article laughable. Hopefully I am not the only one.

The article can be found here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/blackberry-black-sheep-144804064.html

PC's dying?

I figured it would be a matter of time until this happened; with smartphones being able to do just about anything, as well as tablets and small laptops (I myself just recently got a macbook air and it is the smartest investment Ive ever made), who really needs a huge stationary desktop anymore?


Found here: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/pc-sales-collapse-personal-computer-dead-142733092.html<div><object width="576" height="324"><param name="movie" value="http://d.yimg.com/nl/techticker/site/player.swf"></param><param name="flashVars" value="vid=30841017&browseCarouselUI=show&"></param><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed width="576" height="324" allowFullScreen="true" src="http://d.yimg.com/nl/techticker/site/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="vid=30841017&browseCarouselUI=show&"></embed></object></div>

Yahoo! had a video that I just had to share (I love playing Super Mario to this day)
article can be found here:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/vod-ohio-state-university-marching-band-ladies-gentlemen-154940400--ncaaf.html



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FB auto-liking without your permission

So I came across this article on Yahoo! and it immediately made me feel very uneasy.
Here is the link for the article:
http://news.yahoo.com/facebook-allegedly-auto-liking-posts-users-behalf-without-162851176.html

So what FB is doing now is scanning through your past messages, posts, whatever, to find terms that you have frequently used. Then they "like" something related to that term on your behalf, WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION.

So this article jokes that if you talk about a devil costume for halloween, then perhaps FB would like some sort of satanic cult for you.

Does this not scare anyone else? Does this not make you wonder why the hell this is needed? Who thought this was a good idea? Personally, I think whoever came up with this idea should be fired. But, I suppose it also affirms the fact that perhaps not all is really "private" on FB.

Unfortunately, the article makes no mention of when this has started occuring, or why, or how we can stop it.

Vector

The letters I chose are Q, G, and Z. These letters dont really symbolize anything, and they dont mean anything to me, I was just trying to find letters that I thought could be easy or fun to manipulate. The font I used was Gabriola, and I just manipulated the anchor points and played with the colors a little bit. Since I didnt save it as a jpeg and I dont have this program on my compy, I just opened it with preview and took a screen shot :)