Altered Pictures. Photoshop!

Old Main Pride

Sunshine

Two Places


With Old Main I just made it black and white and then went through and then used the erase tool to erase on the layer so the color would show. I erased all the windows, the American Flag, and The "A".
Sunshine I just made it black and white and then chose Multiply.
Two Places includes the same pic I used for Sunshine, I just put sunshine on top on the other pick and made sunshine black and white and then in the layers bar I chose darken.

PhotoShop Assignment

Readings #3

Where I got it.
Reading #3
I thought the article on facebook was ok. I thought that the author hit on some key things that are changing in our society because of facebook. Things have become less personal than before with people interacting or facestalking others on the site without ever having to actually interact with them. I think it's damaging to society over all even though it definitely has pluses to it as well. Large masses of people can be alerted on it as well as vital information to 'party plans'. Heaven forbid you actually have to talk to the person on the phone or worse yet in person (sarcasm). I use facebook too, though I think some people rely on it too much to the point that they are addicted. My sister actually made a facebook for my mom, who I don't think has logged on once since it's creation. And I am ok with that. It would be way to weird if my mom or dad got one. I just dread my sister making one for him... I think he would actually use it and do a lot of what the girl in the article fears her mother would do.
Facebooking Parents

Readings #2

The reading for "When Google is NOT your Friend." Was good, scary, but good. I don't like the fact that anything and everything you have searched on google or the internet in general can be used against you later on in court. I think it opens up new possibilities to people being charged with things they haven't done. Framing could be made a lot easier, you might be able to prove that their computer or their log-in shows what was searched for but I don't think you could prove that a person them self was the one who typed it in. If anything after reading that I think I'm even less of a fan of google and more of one of AOL search engines, Microsoft, and last yahoo. The reading was a bit disturbing and like some of the people's comments I think I'll be a lot more careful about what I type in for. Things are becoming way to Big Brother for my liking.
Google is Not Your Friend


"The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet" just made me more angry and upset as what is happening in regards to the web. I'm sick of companies trying to monopolize everything including the internet. Opportunities to discover different websites that you can find now I believe will go down in networks are able to charge google and yahoo for their service at internet providers. I think That 'politics' will take over and net works might not even stop at yahoo or google or any other search engine or company but start charging others, like blog users or anyone who has any website of their own. I just think everything will down spiral quickly if networks are allowed to charge those services. I think the networks should stay 'neutral' and also not give 'priority' to search engines or services.
May The Best Network Win.

These readings reminded me of Youtube and what it is doing.

Readings #1

Readings on "Netiquette"
I finished reading The Core Rules of Netiquette and E-mailing.
For the one on Business E-mailing I found it rather dry and common sense. I thought a lot of it people should already know, but it did serve a type of reinforcement of it. I thought it was accurate and the reasons that they gave for doing or not doing certain things made sense. But it was aimed for at a company's employees or some other corporations. For college students it may have been applied to professors, though I hope they already know how to e-mail one by now. Of course I've learned from past roommates that just because you're in college doesn't mean you're intelligent, book wise or common sense. So maybe that reading was extremely beneficial for some.
In The Netiquette reading I really liked it and particularly liked the opening when it said, "And "etiquette" means "the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life." " I loved that definition. Just thought I'd just share that. However I think etiquette in general is on the critically endangered species list and is on it's way out. I liked some of the humor in the reading too. I thought the whole chapter on ethical choices could have been replaced by a video they show in the movie theaters on illegal downloading but was necessary, while the advice on lurking in message boards smart. I was happy to see things like grammar and the word choices use (or in most cases choose not to use) addressed. Flaming advice was good to know, I always thought it should be avoided, learned otherwise. Over all good reading and helpful for anyone to read. A lot of things I already knew but there was some that I didn't. It was good to refresh and learn some new things from it.


The Core Rules of Netiquette

E-mail Etiquette

Banning Books

Banning Books

At the beginning of the movie Footloose the character that Ren is shocked to discover that “Slaughterhouse-Five” is banned from the local library after he makes the commentary that it was a good book.
Banning books has been a controversial subject featuring a broad spectrum of literature that has been questioned.
From “Harry Potter” to “Mein Kampf” people have found reasons to have books taken off the shelves.
One of the big reasons that seems to be the most prevalent concerning banning books was voiced by Brett Bowman who said “yea I would ban some books because I feel there are some things that underage kids shouldn’t be exposed to early in life”.
Others like Kristina Nichols leaned more towards the middle on whether or not books should be banned and said that for her, “it depends on the book, it’s not that big of a deal for me”.
There are some people that don’t agree with banning books at all like Jessi Crossen who said “I don’t get the point of banning a book, if you don’t want to read it then you won’t but if you do you will”.
At times other opinions are voiced that no book should be banned but do agree with the idea of a type of rating system where an individual has to be a certain age or older to check out books so that inappropriate material won’t fall into the hands of children who might not understand what they are reading.
Daniel Crossen, Jessi Crossen’s husband, said “books no matter what it is, is precious, each book has a bit of truth in it and when you ban a book you are basically banning whatever slightest truth it may contain from other readers and your banning that insight that readers might receive”. Daniel Crossen went on to say and give the example “like Mein Kampf it may have some interesting use to it that might help with your insight of the world.”
As far as age restrictions went Daniel Crossen agreed and said, “an age restriction should be put on it so people who won’t understand how to decipher the reality from the falsehood won’t be able to check the book out”.
At the Logan Library, Kara Huggard, an employee who works at the reference desk said “we actually try very hard not to ban books”.
At the Logan Library if an individual has a complaint about a book, something that Huggard says doesn’t happen very often, they can fill out a form that asks them eight specific questions about why they are requesting a reconsideration of it.
The individual with the complaint can return the reconsideration form and return it to the library explaining why the material is not suitable for the audience that it is being geared to or for the library in general.
For the most part, Huggard said, they leave the censoring of what children read up to the parents, but the library itself will allow anyone no matter what their age to check out whatever books they bring up to the counter.
In the Utah State University Library, much like the Logan Library, books are rarely if ever banned there and those that have questionable material are usually found in certain sections of the library where they are less likely to be accidentally found by unsuspecting readers.
Kathy Schockmel, the Art Book supervisor, said that once a student opened up a magazine and was shocked and appalled by the images with in it and complained to the library demanding that the magazine be removed; the magazine wasn’t removed nor the subscription cancelled but it and material like it are now found in the Art Book Room.
The Logan Library and USU’s library both hold to “The Freedom to Read Statement”, a statement that was originally issued in May 1953 by the American Library Association and Association of American Publishers Council can be found on the ALA website www.ala.org.
In the statement the ALA and AAP took a stand and said that people had the right to read whatever they want.
In the first proposition the statement reads, “It is in the public interest for publishers and librarians to make available the widest diversity of views and expressions, including those that are unorthodox, unpopular, or considered dangerous by the majority”.

Partying it Up on Election Night

Cheers could be heard coming from the Taggart Student Center’s ball room on Tuesday night were an election party that was being held.

Hoping it becomes a tradition for years to come, Jackson Olsen Executive Vice President of the student government said that he thought the party was a success.

The election party up to and after the announcement of the president elect engaged in several activities and contests through out the evening.

Some of the activities were a hot dog eating contest, Rock Band competition, Ping-pong, political bingo, guessing which way swing states would go, and predictions on who would win.

With Rock Band, a video game, “the only complaint was more people wanted to enter the Rock Band tournament but due to limited time and space in the brackets we had to turn them away,” Mike Watts a volunteer in charge of running the tournament said.

The tournament had a large turn out with some people signing up days in advance Watts said, and the winner was “A Band in Logan”.

The hot dog eating contest involved 100 hot dogs and ___ people and a large crowd that gathered to watch.

Bill Sproat won the competition by eating seven hot dots in three minutes.

Political bingo and ping pong had a good attendance as well as people gathered at tables with paddles or score cards to participate.

“I did have a good time at the party,” Colin Wiest said despite that, “it didn’t turn out the way I hoped.”

Even with the fun of the games there was some booing and cheering at points, especially when Utah went to McCain.

When Barack Obama was announced as the new President Olsen said that “There were a lot of happy people, there were a lot of sad people, and there were a lot of people who were seemed indifferent”.

Some people danced, but many cheered and many ran out the door to call their relatives and friends.

Olsen went on to say that, “over all I think people knew this was coming so they weren’t shocked by the outcome and I think a lot people are coming to terms with President Obama whether they like it or not. I think even the people who didn’t want him to win are recognizing that after 230 something years this country has elected an African American president”.