ds106 assignment – cartoon the head!

ds106 assignment – cartoon the head!

by Jay Melo

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April 9, 2012

Assignment: Fairly simple assignment; though a little technical. You just need to superimpose something’s head onto another something’s head. Process: I procured the two images from Google image search; one is an advertisements for actual $5 Elvis toast, and the other is what appears to be someone’s oekaki of Ren and Stimpy’s Captain Toast Man. The tricky ...
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ds106 assignment – BRING BACK ASTRONAUTS

by Jay Melo

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April 9, 2012

BRING BACK ASTRONAUTS Image Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA Assignment: This assignment has you use the SuperPAC name generator found here and generate a name then get some mashup of data to promote the random SuperPAC. Process: I went to generate the name for my pseudo-SuperPAC and it happened to come up with “Bring Back Astronauts” as the name for the SuperPac. ...
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open source advocacy

by Jay Melo
April 9, 2012

okay, I’m late starting my final assignments for the S.O.S. section, but I’ll start with some good content, the notes from my open source advocacy presentation; full of critical keywords that build a larger picture for anyone who’s truly interested: introduction: open source open source code (will continue code explanation later)/data; free information basics: what ...
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Critique: A Personal Cyberinfrastructure

by Jay Melo
March 25, 2012

I have a lot of issues with this article. Probably the number one issue in general though is that it appears that Campbell is advocating a “personal cyberinfrastructure” when it seems he doesn’t have any real computer-science background or programming ability, though he talks about integrating technology into the classroom, and students lives. This is ...
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About my F.A.L.O topic

by Jay Melo
March 19, 2012

I did a small piece on computer security, but I think it might not be directed enough towards the presentation I had that day, so here’s a more specific response to the article I covered in my presentation for the F.A.L.O section. The title of that article was “Googler speaks of mobile security, says anti-virus ...
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ds106 assignment – blogger fanfic (on notch)

by Jay Melo

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March 19, 2012

(image credit: PC Gamer article) Assignment: Write about your favorite blogger. Process: In choosing to write about Notch, one of my favorite game developers by far, I will just highlight some of my opinions on the man. I’ll also take a look at why he’s a very prolific character in the software world (for some of us ...
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ds106 assignment – revamp your wordpress banner

by Jay Melo

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March 19, 2012

(image credit: me! usage: public domain!) Assignment: Revamp your blog by creating a new banner. Process: The most “advanced” thing about this new banner is the curvy text effect. There’s a few other key steps that went into the creation of the banner that I’ll outline here though: Created a new image in GIMP Under image creation/initial ...
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ds106 assignment – tell me a story (about an item)

by Jay Melo

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March 19, 2012

(photo credit: intel.com promotional product photo) Assignment: Find an item you have extreme emotional attachment to, and tell its story. Process: This is a writing assignment, so it’s not really technically demanding. The only thing I really did other than the writing is find a decent photo of my hard-drive to post. Story: One of my most prized possessions ...
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DFPQ1

by Jay Melo
March 19, 2012

Campbell, in his article, states at the end of the fifth paragraph: “But the mirror lied.” I think it’s true that the “digital facelift” was not enough, and is still not enough, though some thought needs to be put into exactly what web applications we’re talking about here, and exactly what effect do they have ...
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Bitcoin

by Jay Melo
March 12, 2012

Today, some of our presentations covered illegal online-gambling sites like Full-Tilt Poker and company. One of the topics that came up was the funding of accounts on these sites, and how money-laundering and off-shore accounts were a common practice for such sites. I won’t name names, but someone mentioned that they had funds on such ...
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ESET

by Jay Melo
March 11, 2012

Back on 3/7 my presentation covered malware, specifically Android malware. I made a point in my presentation about computer security, and the ability for just about anything that’s network connected to get hacked. It seemed some were surprised that the concept of anti-virus software extended beyond windows computers. Just for reference, here are the Wikis ...
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Midterm Activity

by Jay Melo
February 28, 2012

(Original photo is from Flickr, CC licensed. Check original license here) This appears to be a toy kitchen-set. Looks cute.
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ds106 assignment – replay value

by Jay Melo

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February 21, 2012

Assignment: Tell an original story/scene by re-appropriating a screenshot from your favorite game. Process: In team-fortress 2 I just took a screenshot and cropped out the rest of the game HUD/GUI. The screenshot was taken using team-fortress 2′s internal screenshot taking function because the game initializes the display in full-screen mode which can cause issues when you ...
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ds106 assignment – find yourself in a picture

by Jay Melo

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February 21, 2012

Assignment: Find your name somewhere in your environment. (Could be a part of your name) Process: This particular pic came from Google street view in Google maps, I actually just cut out the portion that showed the company name from a buffer copy (Ctrl+Alt+Prt. Scr. on Windows) of my active window which looked like this: The cropping ...
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ds106 106 assignment – picture with text

by Jay Melo

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February 21, 2012

(photo was originally from here, full credit to original uploader) Assignment: This assignment involves simply putting a “famous quote” on top of a picture. There’s not much else to explain about it really. I deviated from the guidelines slightly Process: This projected was completed very easily using GIMP’s text tool. I simply used the tool to create ...
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TDC bomb 3/3

by Jay Melo
February 21, 2012

the TDC bomb continues: tdc02: black and white photo that looks better in grayscale tdc1: something with patterns (in this case, graphene) tdc32: bram cohen, half-decent coder, representing something I aspire to be tdc29: something upsidedown ( original photo can be found at: http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/english/images/img_about_towerill.jpg ) tdc27: something loud tdc23: object isolated in motion – in this ...
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TDC bomb 2/3

by Jay Melo
February 21, 2012

the TDCs continue: tdc14: a difficult to discern silhouette of something tdc13: the raw material and a finished product – this IDE uses its own code to build itself in certain ways… tdcsopa: a comment on SOPA tdc010: two contrasting places (mine is slightly different with two contrasting groups of people; Afghan children & U.S. ...
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TDC bomb 1/3

by Jay Melo
February 21, 2012

I need to catch up on my TDCs so I’m gonna put a bunch together here, 7 in total: tdc42: photo representing my job (I work at the eikaiwa gaba though, I have no idea what in the heck this medicine is for) tdc41: one of my favorite things (intel ssd, some of the best ...
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Infographic Critique

by Jay Melo
February 9, 2012

For the group 8 infographic analysis assignment, me and Yue chose this Lab42 Twitter usage trends infographic. As far as the accuracy of the data is concerned, Lab42 didn’t include exactly where it got its data from, but simply leaves an e-mail address which allows someone to query where the numbers came from. This in ...
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2/9/12 daily create, happiest times

by Jay Melo
February 9, 2012

I have many happy times in my life, here is one of them; my first view of Japan
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kanji wallpaper set

by Jay Melo
February 9, 2012

(you can download the full version of these images which where they don’t have a resolution restriction here (google plus/picasaweb)) I fashioned these wall-papers from their original image which can be found here; credit goes to the original image. These are very nice if you spend a lot of time in front of the computer (as ...
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troll quote picture

by Jay Melo

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January 26, 2012

(Full credit for this picture goes to the original source) Assignment: This assignment, which I think many others are doing, so probably most people know what it is, but I’ll stick to the assignment guidelines explaining what it is here; is about making a picture that inaccurately attributes a quote and the subject of the picture, ...
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An Introduction

by Jay Melo
January 17, 2012

My name is Jay, I’m 29 and I enjoy games (many types) and computers. I’ve been in Tokyo for a year and a half, and am happily married. I have a good amount of experience with computers, including systems programming (C/C++/whatever), web development (Javascript/PHP/jQuery/whatever), digital security (consulting/implementation/XSS prevention/whatever), hardware/repair/maintenance (was a lead technician at a ...
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I will save you some time

by Jay Melo
January 17, 2012

For my first post I decided to do something practical, like showing how easy it is to bulk import all the wordpress feeds by using OMPLBuilder. Step 1: Access Lockman’s spreadsheet in Google Docs which contains a list of all the blogs we want. Step 2: Highlight all of the feed URLs, then copy (Ctrl+C) ...
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