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MINARET HASHTAG ETIQUETTE Always use in moderation DEVIOUS PURPOSES: THE MARRIAGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MOVEMENT

72 HOUR BLACKOUT How one student spent 3 days without technology

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p FRIEND or FOE A look behind the Anonymous Mask

CONTENTS 6 WHAT’S HOT 8 EDITOR’S NOTE 10 HASHTAG ETIQUETTE: ALWAYS USE IN MODERATION 16 INNOVATIVE BEAUTY TECHNOLGIES 18 DEVIOUS PURPOSES: THE MARRIAGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MOVEMENT 22 UNIVERSITIES AT THE FOREFRONT OF MINI-SATELLITE INNOVATIONS 26 72 HOUR BLACKOUT 30 HIGHBROW TO LOWBROW 32 TECHNOLOGY IN RELATIONSHIPS 35 24 HOURS TO GAME 40 IS ANONYMOUS A FRIEND OR FOE?

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MINARET ISSUE 78.12 | TECHNOLOGY | DECEMBER 2011 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MANAGING EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR FACULTY ADVISER

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I was in the middle of an extremely boring dinner. In most circumstances, I would sit there politely, nodding at appropriate times during the conversation and trying my best not to yawn. On that particular night, though, my eyes were fixed on Pete and Pierre waddling around on my phone’s screen.

To clarify, I had just downloaded Pocket Penguins onto my Droid, and, with as little exaggeration as possible, my life had completely changed.

An app launched in July, Pocket Penguins allows viewers to switch between three live webcams in the California Academy of Sciences’ African Penguin Colony. Now I can pull out my phone and watch the little family of chubby flightless birds swim, play, relax, flirt and (ew) molt whenever I want. And it’s completely free.

Pete, one of the colony’s youngest birds has become my personal favorite, but Homey comes in a close second just because of that awesome name.

If it seems that I’ve become way too involved in the lives of some penguins living across the country, it’s because I have. At least 20 times a day, I open up Pocket Penguins to check on my little pets, to see if Dyer and Grendel are getting along again and to try and figure out if Jahleel and Pierre are still “just friends.”

Since downloading the app, that big question in my life, “I wonder what some penguins are doing right now?” no longer goes unanswered. It’s like The Real World for penguins, and I can’t get enough.

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Sometimes all you need is a little pep talk. And that’s exactly what you can get from the little boy making his way across the web with a famous speech after learning to ride his bike, or as I like to call him, “Bike Kid.” Learning how to ride a bike a big milestone as a child, besides beating the newest Pokemon game or making it to the top of the jungle gym. But when Bike Kid’s dad asks him for a few

words of wisdom, his strong elocution and forceful motivation would probably give JFK a run for his money.

Bike Kid’s speech reached a new YouTube level of fame when it was auto tuned and turned into a song, just like Charlie Sheen’s bi-winning video or the E-Harmony cat lady (who we all love to hate.)

Since its posting last spring, Bike kid has inspired over three million viewers, con-

gress candidates and bike riders alike.

After a long day of the world knocking you down, play Bike Kid’s speech, and you will feel like you can conquer the world.

After all, he knows you can do it! By the looks of things, it will be clear this kid will run something important one day. Could be our country, could be Krispy Kreme. Either way, Bike Kid for 2012.

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EDITOR’S NOTE

I CAME ACROSS AN ARTICLE in the New York Times about a woman who used Twitter to find herself a boyfriend, a job and an apartment in the matter of a few months. While I don’t know if I could succeed myself entirely to my online life, there is something so alluring about her willingness to network that makes me want to tweet my dream employers every hour on the hour. (Let’s face it, I would tweet every minute on the minute but even Ashton Kutcher has taken a break from tweeting.) Yet when I think about my digital presence, my entire day already consists of emails, texting, instant messaging and tweeting @miketrobiano colleagues or friends. Technology is so far rooted in my life, I even frequently preempt my thoughts with a “hashtag” during everyday conversation. #LittleKnownFact Maybe it’s because most of my life, what I’ve read has been done on a digital device, my entertainment has been on a screen, my music has been pumped through headphones and the games I played were with a controller. While reluctant at first, I have finally recognized the giant pixilated elephant in my cyberspace room and made it Facebook official. My digital life is no different than the woman in the article.

I’ve taken notice that I wouldn’t be able to do my job, talk to my family everyday or even be a member of my generational society without conforming to technology. And believe me, while there are days I want to “accidentally” spill my venti vanilla latte over every gadget I own just so I can relax a little, I always want to be connected. Besides, how else would I update my status to “Just spilled Starbucks all over my Apple products. #RIPSteveJobs.”

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Hashtag Etiquette

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ALWAYS USE IN MODERATION WRITTEN BY

HANNAH WEBSTER

The ever-expanding world of social networking has taken what was once known as the pound sign or the number sign and given it a new identity: the hashtag.

Hashtags were created by Twitter as a way for users to categorize their posts without needing to change to basic method of posting. It not only helps to spread and organize information, but when a given subject is tweeted about alongside a hashtag, it makes it easier to find via search. They have varying degrees of purpose, from serious and business-oriented to sarcastic and humorous.

Some can be something as simple as #rememberwhen, used to categorize a post about something a user misses or used to do, for example

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“#rememberwhen studying was optional?”

Sometimes it’s a means of sharing an experience. #fail is often used to tell of a moment when someone makes a fool out of themselves, for example “Just sat in the wrong lecture for 45 minutes…#fail.” #NowPlaying has been at the top of the most popular hashtags for the past few weeks. It allows users to share with their followers what music they’re listening to or what movies they’re watching.

Media tends to have a large impact on the most popular hashtags. When Charlie Sheen decided to show his true colors (and by true colors, I mean insanity), #winning was everywhere.

And since the news of Kim Kardashian’s pending divorce, #ThingsLongerThanKimsMarriage has become a huge trending topic, some favorites being “Taylor Swift’s VMA speech… when interrupted by Kanye West” or “However long it took to find Nemo.”

But recently, hashtags have been expanding from Twitter to other means of social networking.

They now litter Facebook statuses and posts. I

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even recently saw #WhatDidTheySee used in an ad on Facebook for the upcoming film, “The Woman in Black.”

“I had a Twitter before it was so popular,” said sophomore philosophy major Cendy Schutt.

“So when I saw hashtags being brought to Facebook, I found it pointless because on Twitter it is used to promote the trending topics. But what purpose does it really have on Facebook or texts messages? I think if you want to use hashtags so much just get a Twitter account and use it there where it has a real purpose.”

Cendy makes a valid point. Hashtags are used on Twitter as a means of organization and even promoting. But Facebook has no means of tracking and organizing when they are added to statuses or posts. It seems people have become so accustomed to categorizing their thoughts on Twitter that the practice is spilling over to other social networking tools.

“You can’t really expect social media to stay in one place,” said sophomore pyschology Audrey Lovett. “Because it is meant to bring people together.”

I don’t see the spreading of this as an issue, but there are those that I like to call “Over-Hashtagers.” They add hashtags to their tweets, their status updates, posts on other peoples’ walls, emails and text messages. These entusiasts sometimes even have more than one hashtag to add to whatever it is that they’re saying, but at that point, no one really reads what they’re saying anymore because it is riddled by so many hashtags.

Remember when “LOL” and emoticons were created? Finally, three little letters allowed you to communicate that you were laughing or thought something was funny.

You could even control the tone of your text messages and emails by adding a happy face, a sad face or an (uh-oh) angry face.

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But then texts started coming in with unnecessary LOLs and excessive smiley faces. Sure, people were excited about means to express themselves via text, but the need for self-control was quickly realized. Especially when an unfortunate part of the population began to say LOL in real life instead of actually laughing.

Like all innovations in social networking, hashtagging requires a bit of etiquette. We all have those Facebook friends that blow up the news feed because they possess the need to alert everyone when they brush their teeth.

organization of thoughts. It will probably take a few years for their full potential and accepted use to be achieved, but until then, we can be entertained by just how many things are longer than Kim Kardashian’s marriage.

If you want to use hashtags on Facebook as well as Twitter, go for it. There is really no use in controlling distinguishing features between something so similar as a tweet and a status update.

But remember, it isn’t where hashtags started and they do not serve the same purpose. In other words, don’t load up on hashtags that just make

We all have those Facebook friends that blow up the news feed because they possess the need to alert everyone when they brush their teeth.

“It’s annoying when people use them all the time on Facebook,” said Lovett. “When something like this, ‘had such a good day #lovelife #goodgirl #Friday’ is on Facebook.”

Hashtags should be used somewhat sparingly and only when they improve what you’re trying to say. Overuse can result not only in confusion, but annoyance with said confusion. In other words, if you are adding a hashtag to every other word within a post, no one is going to know what you’re saying and will then most likely stop trying to figure it out.

And as a general rule, hashtagging things out loud should be avoided.

But don’t lose track of their up-sides. They can allow the sharing of important information and

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what you’re saying more confusing and more annoying to read when your post isn’t actually being categorized. So use with caution. But if you ever feel the need to hashtag something you say out loud, I will go after you.

The crossover of hashtags into other media may be disconcerting at first, but it is the natural flow of social media. When a balance between acceptance and overuse is achieved, it can be something to be embraced rather than disdained.

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Loved The Minaret staff take a look back to their childhoods to reminisce about their favorite gadgets and games.

My favorite gadget from my childhood was definitely my Walkman. For my eighth birthday, my brothers made me a mixed tape from songs they recorded on the radio. I listened to that tape over and over again for years.

KATELYN GOODWIN Ad and PR Coordinator

I played Ocarina of Time on Nintendo 64 for so long that the controller’s joystick wore off most of the skin on my thumb. I then proceeded to proceeded to use my open palm, which wore out as well. This is why I am a calloused person.

MIKEY ANGELO RUMORÉ Asst. Opinion Editor

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In ‘99 when I wasn’t on my Razor Scooter I’d be on my Nintendo 64 playing Zelda and Ken Griffey Jr.’s Slugfest all night.

The best part of Ken Griffey Jr.’s Slugfest on my Nintendo 64 wasn’t the easy-tounderstand controls or realistic batting stances. It wasn’t even the state-of-theart pitching mechanics. Plain and simple, my 8-year-old self loved how darn stupid the CPU was. Why yes - I will trade Quinton McCracken for Tony Gwynn - Thank you very much.

JOSHUA NAPIER Managing Editor

MILES PARKS Sports Editor

My first phone was a Nokiathe brick shaped one. Cell phones and I have had a long, beautiful relationship since then. Snake taught me patience and dedication.

JENN BEDELL Lead Copy Editor

I was obsessed with this interactive artist’s canvas I could plug into my Nintendo ES. I would sit and draw and watch it on my tv for hours!

MIKE TROBIANO Editor-in-Chief

The Madden football video game franchise was an essential part of my childhood and adolescent years. Ever since 2001 when Eddie George was on the cover, I owned and was addicted to Madden for Playstation 2 and 3. I’m now 20-years-old and I still take the game even more seriously than I did when I was 10.

DANIEL FEINGOLD Associate Editor

When I was nine, I got a Password Journal for Christmas and thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Looking back, I have no idea what a fourth grader could be writing in her journal that would require voice-activated password protection. All I know is that it was so strongly protected even I couldn’t get in it half the time.

CHANNING HAILEY Asst. News Editor

How Tech Savvy Are You? Let’s be real, technology has swallowed our generation whole. Our lives revolve around tweeting celebrities, e-chatting peers in the next classroom over and waiting for the newest iPhone upgrade.

But what good is technology without knowing where it came from?

Test your tech knowledge!

Did you know that Thomas Edison did not invent the first electric light bulb?

ILLUSTRATION BY MELISSA SANTELL

GAME OVER:

Consider yourself technologically impaired...

For the record, Edison created the first incandescent lamp.

You came, you solved and you conquered. Bravo my fellow nerd, you’re a true techno guru!

Spelling Bee

No

True or False: The origins of the internet extend back to research done in the 1960s.

Yes

False Ut oh, looks like your price is WRONG! You may not be a stranger to the world of technology, but you’re no Bill Gates either!

True

Ding, ding, ding! Who was the first mobile telephone carrier in the U.S.?

The Price is Right Motorola

Which television game show aired first, The Price is Right or Spelling Bee?

Verizon $10 Billion

$50 Billion

What is the net worth of Facebook?

Negative.

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B E AU T Y 12/11

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Practical purposes in today’s society have changed immensely to suit the fast-paced lifestyles many people have. For many women, especially women who have to work long hours, beauty isn’t necessarily a top priority because of the amount of time it takes for them to primp themselves. However, thanks to modern technology and innovative ideas from people who understand the difficulty of the lives of these women, getting ready in the morning takes less time to do, and still gives the same, if not better, effects as the traditional ways.

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Epilator Even though epilators have been around for quite a few years, many people still resort to the orthodox method of shaving. I find shaving to be a tedious task. You have to do it once every two or three days, and I find that I spend a lot of money continuously replacing razors and buying shaving cream. To me, epilators are one of man’s greatest inventions for modern beauty. Epilators pluck out hairs from the root, like waxing, but it doesn’t cost as much as waxing does. Since the hair is being plucked, it takes about two to three weeks to grow back, and it really doesn’t hurt that much, unless if you have thick hair. I bought the Braun Silk Epil 3 SoftPerfection Epilator for Legs Model 3170 for $50. It was a big splurge at the time, but I consider it an investment.

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I’m an extremely lazy person, so I absolutely adore this innovative piece of technology. Vibrating mascara isn’t any more special compared to normal mascara. The only difference is that you don’t have to wiggle the wand to get an even coat of mascara on your eyelashes; the wand does it for you! It’s perfect for my fellow lazy people, and also for people who move like sloths in the morning and don’t have enough time to get ready (also like me). The only downside to this product is that it’s about $10 more expensive than normal mascara. Lancome’s Ôscillation Intensity, $34.00 at Sephora, has a great formula that make the lashes more voluminous and longer. It also has a cone-shaped wand, so it’s perfect for getting the inner corners of the eyes.

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even be used to cover any flaws on the body. However, the foundation that is used is generally very thin, so more than one coat would be needed in order to get a heavier coverage. One brand I recommend is Temptu, $225 at Sephora. For me, it only took one coat to even out the skin tone on my face, and cover the redness around my nose and mouth.

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straighten your hair, so it doesn’t leave any bumps. The heat is distributed evenly throughout the plates, so it only takes one time to straighten a lock of hair. Usually, whenever I straighten my hair, the ends of my hair get extremely frizzy and dry. After trying the IV straightener, my hair felt smooth, and even had a sort of glossy look to it. The average price for a straightener is about $199.

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Devious Purposes: The Marriage of Technology and Movement

TECHnology TECHnology Movement Movement And And

interACTION 1.0 Ushers in a New Wave of Art

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AMANDA SIERADZKI

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he expansive wood floor and whitewashed walls meant for displaying art are obscured by clutter. There are five computers, three wiimotes, two PA systems, one video mixer, a keyboard synthesizer, a projector, a trumpet, a saxophone, toulle, feathers, and countless wires and microphones scattered across the space for a new kind of event.

“We were sort of doing a three ring circus of technology acts,” mused Dr. Bradford Blackburn, a University of Tampa professor of music and figurative ringmaster for interACTION 1.0. “I’d say probably 90 percent of it was improvised and about 10 percent of it was planned,” he continued. “The fact that there’s a level of spontaneity is part of what makes the [show] interesting.”

The event featured experimental music using innovative technology and interactive programs such as the Max programming environment, including components MSP and Jitter. Framed with wires, the performance space in Scarfone/Hartley Art Gallery was surrounded by MacBooks and programmers furiously typing away into complex systems.

The music was provided by instruments of both the musical kind and the intangible programs of a computer.

In the center of the space was the most surprising component of the whole show.

Red, blue, green, and yellow exercise balls were rolled across the floor by dancers wearing white shirts who dictated the discordant, and futuristic-sounding music.

A good sized crowd of about fifty people look on with confusion and intrigue. Audience member Rich Meehan liked the performance but didn’t complete understand it. “I was a little confused,” he admitted. “It did remind me of dubstep and dancers did a good job of connecting with the sounds.”

A month before their Thursday, Nov. 3 performance, the students from Dr. Blackburn’s Interactive Arts Ensemble met with

adjunct professor Ya-Ju Lin’s Dance Improvisation students. Musicians were assigned to groups of dancers, and it was up to the students to work out a rehearsal schedule and concept for their piece.

The opening piece with the balls was the most progressive technologically of all the dances utilizing the “Optical Motion Capture space” and a “location/color tracking and sound design.”

" I'd say probably 90

percent of it is improvised and about 10 percent of it was planned. " A camera using the program Cyclops, viewed a 4x4 workspace.

“Each square recognized a different color as a different sound so that one square that saw red would react to the red,” explained Gordon Bonnett, one of the dancers who participated in the piece. Sound samples of distorted pianos, guitars, and cellos were set off as different colored balls flew and rolled across the view of the camera.

His partner, Rodner Salgado worked on the piece with him and came up with the concept of using multi-colored rubber exercise balls to set off the Cyclops technology. In the beginning of the piece, the duo experienced one of the downsides of this progressive program when the camera didn’t recognize the colors.

“I had this whole idea of giving a ball to an audience member and having them throw

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it so they would make a sound. I tried it twice and nothing happened because it wasn’t working,” said Bonnett, “but you can’t think negatively while you’re improving.”

“Working with any kind of electrical modern age technological equipment is always unpredictable and sometimes messy,” added Salgado.

It’s the unpredictability of both improv and technology that lent itself so well to the nature of the performances. With improv in dance, the next move is always a surprise and sometimes, no matter how much preparation is put forth, with technology the same kind of spontaneity can occur.

Another innovation used during the event was the wiimote, a wii remote programmed with OSCulator, or open sound control, an application that allowed the dancers to send different types of signals from the Accelerometer program in the wiimote.

“The [interactive art] students were then able to build programs that they coded in Max where they took those decoded wiimote signals and then mapped that to different types of parameters like controlling pitch, amplitude, instrument changes,” explained Dr. Blackburn. “That was what happened in Eugenio Moleiro’s composition, and Sam Bolenbaugh used them to trigger sound samples.”

Moleiro and Bolenbaugh’s dancers both came up with very different concepts for each piece using the wiimotes. Allison Service and Salgado were both in Moleiro’s piece as a fairy and bird-creature from a different land who discovered the technology and used it to torment the musician.

Salgado, who wore an elaborate costume of brown bird wings, a yellow beak, and headpiece climbed onto the table where Moleiro sat at his piano synthesizer, and both often screamed at each other over the gargling sounds of the musical samples.

“I am all about keeping the audience awake and present,” said Salgado.

"I'm all about keeping the audience awake and present."

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In the Bolenbaugh piece, dancers Ali Cloutier and Lauren Albro danced with wiimotes in black sports bras and multi-color tutus. Albro had difficult time handling the technology on top of the improvisation, as well as the short preparation time the groups had to put together their piece.

“The wiimotes were really challenging to work with because of the fact that the slightest movement would loop our music and start it all over so we had to be really careful if we wanted the music to play or start over,” said Albro.

“It definitely felt frustrating most of the time because of the fact that we were not given the opportunity to rehearse and have a set thing of what to do instead of having two dancers dancing by themselves at the same time looking chaotic.

Interactive Video Programmer, Jillian Shannon, described the night as a kind of theatrical drama. Her contribution to a saxophone/dancer piece involved a projected video of a girl taking photos with different neon filters with the concept of “breaking the fourth wall” in mind; a concept that rang true through every performance as the dancers and musicians interacted not only with each other, but with the people who watched on in amazement.

“I think that musical performances are always like dramas in a sense,” commented Dr. Blackburn, “You don’t know if someone is going to lose their place in the middle of the concerto...with technology the drama is just, Is it going to work?”

The saxophone piece that Shannon gave a backdrop to really exhibited this interactive nature of technology, music, and movement. “I played sax in the mike and wave forms changed and switched as I improved,” said saxophone player Markus Zakaria, “When she [dancer Liz Frattalone] stomped her foot she would lead, and when I stomped my foot I would lead.”

“We switched off a few times” Frattallone laughed.

Usually, there are four paradigms in the world dancer/music communication. The first is when a dancer picks music and gestures are somewhat pre-determined due to rhythm and phrasing.

The second way is if the dancer creates the movement and writes the music to match. In the dance world, the Cage/Cunningham dynamic of choreography refers to composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham who

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would only set an amount of time for the music to play and dancers to dance, then come together the day of the performance and see how the two interacted.

“The fourth way which is what we were trying for with the interaction event, was that the [music and dancer] are mutually interchangeable with each other and they control each other through the medium of technology,” said Dr. Blackburn. He sees the Frattallone and Zarkaria connection as a perfect example; “It’s an organic connection.”

Dr. Blackburn began working with experimental music ten years ago at the University of Illinois, whose focus on technology, as well as an excellent dance program, are unparalleled. Most recently he received a Delo Grant from UT and built a body suit of sensor devices. The suit looked at motion producing music in a 3D venue, as opposed to the limiting 2D of the Cyclops camera program.

What’s the next thing he’s looking at? The Microsoft Kinect controller.

“Since that came out it’s opened up a new world of possibilities for what we can do with skeletal tracking,” said Dr. Blackburn.

With new innovations in technology becoming more incorporated in mainstream media, it’s no surprise that dance and music have started to use high-tech ways of bringing their art form to a new level. Like in the interACTION 1.0, technology is helping to bridge dance and music together through a new medium of communication.

Dr. Blackburn has not only noticed this trend, but ridden the wave of technological advances in these artistic fields. “As the devices are developed for popular culture and mainstream use, composers take them, hack them, and reuse them for their own devious purposes.”

After receiving feedback, Dr. Blackburn has high hopes showcasing the Interactive Arts Ensemble and maintaining a relationship with the dance department. Salgado is also looking forward to future events like interACTION 1.0. “I feel we all have a better idea of how the audience will be an how the equipment works, so now the possibilities are endless.”

“It’s just a start. This was only 1.0,” Bonnett adds with a smile.

The experimental music is created through movement that is decoded, mapped and set to computer analyized pitches which create sound.

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Universities at forefront of mini-satellite innovations WRITTEN BY

MARIANNE GALARIS

Remember back in the days of elementary school, making a solar-powered oven out of a box and aluminum foil, setting it down over black asphalt in the midday Sun and trying to cook a hot dog? Remember launching model rockets from the P.E. field?

Well, imagine your teacher had scrapped those projects from the curriculum entirely, and instead had given you your very own satellite—equipped with solar cells, antennae, a tiny computer and a radio transceiver—to monitor from its orbit in space. Your satellite might have a camera to take pictures, a sensor to predict weather, detect earthquakes, research biology or transmit signals to amateur radio stations.

You could choose to monitor it online, or from a ground station using hardware.

Surely the idea of this in the 1990s would have sounded preposterous to anyone aware of how expensive satellite technology has been, since the launch of Russia’s Sputnik 1 in 1957. Even now, 54 years after the dawn of the Space Age, a large, traditional satellite might run you $150,000—just to build. The cheapest dedicated launch PAGE 22 | THEMINARETONLINE.COM

you might find for it could be $10 million, according to Scott MacGillivray, president of Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems. But aerospace engineers at universities have found ways to make building and launching a satellite cheaper than ever.

The trick is making smaller satellites— Nanosatellites—using relatively inexpensive, off-the-shelf hardware found in personal electronics. NanoSats can be the size of a grapefruit, a Rubix cube or a postage stamp. Regardless, all have to hitch a ride, or piggyback, on a large spacecraft, such as a NASA rocket. Since what weighs less will always require less fuel to be launched, you’d think the lightest weight NanoSats would be the cheapest every time. But besides just their weight, the shape they take has an affect on their price.

Think back to grade school again. This time, you and your classmates are building onto a LEGO spaceship with the toy blocks. You can collaborate easily, with pieces designed to fit together. But there’s always that one kid who has to complicate everything. Instead of stacking up LEGOs

to make little satellites on the shuttle, he presents you with a wooden ABCblock. Sure you can make it fit, with some Duct tape or glue, but it’s an added expense and effort you know you could have avoided . . . if someone could have just agreed to use standardized LEGOs. Well, what the LEGO did for blocks is similar to what the CubeSat has done for small satellites. It’s shaped like a 10-centimeter cube that will fit in your hand, and up to three can be combined for slightly larger projects. Engineers at Stanford University and California Polytechnic State University introduced the CubeSat in 1999, along with a matching deployment system called PPOD (Poly-PicoSatellite Orbital Deployer). One PPOD houses several CubeSats inside of it, and this simplifies a launch provider’s job by allowing the workers loading up shuttles to attach one black box instead of many.

Together, these two parts comprise the “CubeSat standard,” an envelope specification that has fostered creativity and collaboration across the globe. Robert Twiggs is one of the Stanford professors credited with developing CubeSats.

“What we’ve learned from the satellites we have launched, [is] the more room you give students to put things in . . . the more things they want to put in. If you can fly anything that’s going to do something that is a little different, it’s exciting to the students,” Twiggs told Space.com in 2005.

"If you can fly anything that's going to do something that is a little different, it's exciting to the students ."

ABOVE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: A Poly-PicoSatellite Orbital Deployer (PPOD) is loaded onto a shuttle; Introduced in 1999, the 10 centimeter Cubesat allows workers to load shuttles with just one verses several smaller devices.

SCIENCE The CubeSat allows students more options when it comes to using lowcost components, and it also requires a relatively short time to develop. It can be built in one or two years, which falls in the timeline of a student’s career.

This has led to dozens being launched by universities, and over 100 teams worldwide are currently developing them, according to MacGillivray.

Some of the most interesting proposed CubeSat missions include sending them to orbit the moon and giving them telescopes for tracking bright stars. But much sooner, scheduled for 2013, a CubeSat will carry a payload of thousands of microchipsized satellites, to be released into low Earth orbit.

Zac Manchester, a Ph.D student in aerospace engineering at Cornell University, has spent the past three years striving to develop the smallest satellite possible. So far, his efforts, combined with those of two other students and their research adviser, Professor Mason Peck, have resulted in a chip satellite they call Sprite.

One Sprite is about the size of two postage stamps (2cm x 2cm x 2 mm) and intended to be launched in swarms of hundreds or thousands. Individually, Sprites are limited to transmitting a four-letter, programmed name and a few bits of data. But in mass, they could work in unison as a whole cloud, with each transmitting signals to ground stations.

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TOP TO BOTTOM: A Poly-PicoSatellite Orbital Deployer (PPOD); a Sprite Satellite.

Collectively, these signals are expected to provide enhanced imaging, such as 3D pictures of space weather.

The most spectacular thing about Sprites, however, isn’t the images they can produce at low cost; it’s in the way they can travel and the ensuing possibilities. Like small particles of cosmic dust, they’re barely affected by gravity and can be carried on the solar wind. Manchester and Peck hope future versions might coast to the atmospheres of Saturn and Mars, where they could look for organic compounds like nucleic acids. “ . . . [I]f the probes could be made thin and lightweight enough, alternative forms of propulsion could eventually send them to distant worlds, without the need for rocket fuel,” Peck explained in his article, Exploring Space with Chip-like Satellites.

Other universities around the world have worked on satellites like Sprite, but Cornell is the first to have launched prototypes. On May 16, 2011, three Sprites were launched with the space shuttle Endeavour and mounted to the International Space Station. The prototypes will remain there for the next few years as part of a test to see how they weather the harsh conditions of space.

In the meantime, Manchester has created a fundraising project on Kickstarter. com encouraging people to sponsor as many Sprites as possible for a mass-launch planned for 2013. It costs $300 to sponsor a Sprite, which allows you to name it and track its mission on Kicksat.org.

However, for $1,000 you can receive “a Sprite development kit, including a fully functioning Sprite with all schematics, source code, and programming tools so that you can write your own flight code.”

“If at least 1000 space pioneers join us by sponsoring Sprites,” Manchester wrote

Collectively, these signals are expected to provide enhanced imaging, such as 3D pictures of space weather. on Kickstarter, “we’ll be able to dramatically improve and shrink our design by getting custom microchips made. If we can do that, then costs could be driven down so that every school or even every school child could one day have their own spacecraft to explore the solar system.”

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Three days. No technology. Many inconveniences.

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“No, Casey. Don’t do it. That’s too dangerous.

Get a different assignment.”

That was my father’s immediate reaction upon telling him that I would be going into a three day “blackout,” eliminating any form of technology in my life as an experiment for class.

At first, I thought he was joking. He was dead serious, though. His concern only subsided when I promised him I would give him the cell phone numbers of my roommates and keep my (powered off) cell phone on me at all times in case of an emergency.

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CASEY CAVANAGH

Even my friend, Jordan, who sits next to me in class had a knee jerk reaction: “Why would you even do that to yourself?”

It seemed people had more of a calm reaction to the kid in my class who decided to become one with the wilderness for a few days to experience what it would be like to be homeless first handedly.

From the get-go of my decision to rid myself of my cell phone, TV, laptop and iPod, I realized how reliant our society has become on the convenience of our gadgets.

Not that I am distancing myself from this. I

am the first person to miss something one of my friends is saying to me because I am too indulged in my Twitter timeline to pay attention to someone right in front of me.

In the morning, instead of reading the newspaper like a New York business man, I lay in bed scrolling through my recent Facebook notifications. In fact, if my Blackberry could talk, it would probably tell you that the skin of my palm feels like home. My laptop deserves large recognition for my academic success, and the TV for my sanity and relaxing down time. And if it weren’t for my iPod, the gym would be a foreign land to me.

I spend time with my gadgets like they are personal friends of mine. They’re around me just as much, if not more.

Three days without my favorite sidekicks? How hard could that be?

Day 1 I woke up to my roommate, Stacey, shaking me awake.

“What?”

“You need to get up.”

“Why?” I groggily asked, rolling over to turn my back to the world.

“Casey. I need to go. Get up. I don’t want you to miss your class. You have no snooze, remember?”

My eyes opened. Oh, yeah. I slowly sat up and nodded.

“I’ll call you later.”

I nodded, as Stacey walked to the door, fully dressed, pocket book on arm, ready for the day.

“Wait. You can’t.”

Stacey laughed quickly.

“Oh, true,” she said. “Your choice,” she added through a laugh before shutting the door.

Stopping for my morning coffee, still in a sleepy haze, I pulled into a parking space instead

of going through the drive-thru. I was immediately greeted by a cheery, blonde barista that complimented my shirt. Admittedly, I was a little more awake and smiling just a little wider as I sank back into my Volkswagen sedan and sipped my iced coffee. It was nice to put a face to the static voice I spat my order at every morning.

I sat in my scriptwriting class, consciously avoiding touching the mouse and surfing the web, my usual class activity. I swiveled around in the computer chair for the first 10 minutes. I picked at my already-chipping-purple nail polish.

I wondered what I should do later once I got home, since watching Desperate Housewives was out of the question. Having running out of things to think about and look at, I focused in on the lecture my teacher was giving.

After only a few minutes, I was completely engaged. I was raising my hand left and right, asking questions. Before I knew it, the class was over.

Walking out, I realized my involvement in the lecture was a record for my class participation.

I had nothing else to do, no texts to send or games to play on my phone, so why not involve myself in the discussion?

After class, I rode home in silence. I rolled down the windows and listened to the hustle and bustle at every stop light on Kennedy. I did some more thinking. I made some lists in my head. But, mostly, I pondered what text messages were sitting unopened in my mailbox.

Maybe I should turn it on. Just for a second.

What if someone had something important to tell me?

Technology is essentially supposed to make everything faster…easier. But, I found that when I was de-wired from the world, completely out of reach from distractions of colorful screens, without the option of Facebook breaks, I actually finished my assignments faster and with more thoughtfulness.

OPINION 12/11 That night, my roommates all curled up on the couch to drink wine and watch TV. Sulking, I sat at my desk in my room reviewing my upcoming assignments for that week.

Having little else to do, I tackled almost all of them, even the ones I knew I could easily finish last minute. At one point, one of my friends called up to see if I wanted to come downstairs and they’d turn the TV off. I declined—I didn’t want to break the productive academia role I was on.

A few hours later, I threw down my pen and exhaled loudly. Two more days.

combination of friends and alcohol was entertainment enough. It was only standing on the outdoor deck-bar of MacDinton’s Irish Pub talking to a tall, lanky guy with uncomfortably curly hair did I wish I had my phone to pull out as an excuse to have to walk away. I tried to eye my friend in the distance to come “save me.” She drunkenly smiled and waved, then continued dancing. Guess girls’ ability to “talk-with-their-eyes” isn’t as strong as it used to be.

Day 2

To my surprise, by the third day I lost the urge to constantly check my bag for my phone. My friends had adjusted pretty well, too.

I went to my friend’s pool to catch some rays. When we were grabbing things from inside the house to take outside with us, I shook my head when one of my friends picked up the portable iPod speakers.

“But I don’t want my headphones to get wet!” she protested.

Five minutes later, three of us laid on parallel lawn chairs in silence. Me, absorbing the sounds of nature. My friends blowing their eardrums with their iPod headphones cranked high.

Once I got home, showered and napped, I studied for a couple of hours. At a house party that night, I was approached by a girl with an extremely passive-aggressive personality.

“I texted you the other day!” She shouted over the defeaning flow of house music playing throughout the house.

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I REACHED FOR MY iPOD AND ONLY ONCE IT WAS IN MY HAND DID I REMEMBER THE RULES. I PUT IT BACK.

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After a leisure morning of sleeping in, I woke up at 10:30 am and decided to go for a run. Instead of going to the gym for an hour and a half workout, I opted to run around my neighborhood. (In hindsight, maybe including the elliptical as “technology” was a little too far of a stretch). I reached for my iPod and only once it was in my hand did I remember the rules. I put it back.

After what felt like a few miles, I slowed down, out of breath. I slowly walked back to my house. In the kitchen, I grabbed a cold Aquafina water bottle from the fridge and began chugging. I glanced at the stove clock. 10: 42. I choked on the water in my throat a little.

“You okay?” Stacey asked from the kitchen table, where she sat diligently studying.

I capped the water and let the fridge door slam shut. I headed towards the stairs.

“I’m never running without my iPod again,” I mumbled.

I spent the rest of my day doing laundry, cleaning my room and even cleaned the rest of the house. My roommates and I cooked dinner before getting ready to hit the S. Howard bars.

That night was the time I thought least about the lack of technology in my life. The

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200,000 “What? Sorry, I can’t hear you!” I yelled back.

“I SAID,” she screamed, leaning into my ear. “I TEXTED YOU TO HANG OUT THE OTHER DAY. WHY DIDN’T YOU ANSWER!?”

I pulled back and gave her an apologetic face.

“Sorry! Phone’s broken!”

Once I walked away, I had to try not to smile. After all, it was a legitimate excuse. My phone was out of commission.

my Blackberry and laptop weren’t severely painful for me to forfeit for a few days, they are objects that I have realized have been tightly fitted into my everyday life—so much so that my relationships and general lifestyle would be affected if I no longer had them permanently.

After classes that day, I went home, made dinner and found an empty spot on the couch between my roommates. Time to catch up on some DVR.

Day 4 I woke up Monday morning to my roommate shaking me awake.

“Get up. This bulls**t is over. Turn your damn alarm on. I’m leaving.”

I’ve gone over a week without a phone before (thanks, water damage). But, I can’t remember the last time I went without any “gadget.” I noticed over the three day blackout that, more than ever, not only are laptops, smart phones and iPods a convenient amenity, they are also assets that have actually made life inconvenient to go without.

After I was allowed to reconnect with technology, the first thing I did was turn my cell phone on. Immediately, my inbox was bombarded with text message after text message.

Many, to my surprise, were completely unimportant. Others, I wish I had seen at the time, like the invitation I missed out on to go to dinner with some old friends.

Next, I logged onto Facebook. I realized nothing had changed. The same pictures and annoying and depressing statuses piled on my screen, the majority of which affected me in no way.

Although I can honestly say

I noticed over the three day blackout that, more than ever, not only are laptops, smart phones and iPods a convenient amenity, they are also assets that have actually made life inconvenient to go without.

text messages are sent every second The average facebook user has friends

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THE CLIMB

Organizing Social Classes Through Our Technological Gadgets

In the Arts & Culture edition of The Minaret, Opinion Editor Rich Solomon gave a general overview of social classes based on low brow, middle brow and high brow.

I realized how appropriate it would be to do the same in terms of technology. So in honor of our tech edition, that’s exactly what I’ll do.

At the very least, technology plays an important role in our daily lives. At the very most, it has become our lives. But what exactly is considered of the highest class versus that of the lowest class?

And what falls in between that?

We’ll begin with cell phones.

Starting with the lowest of the low, we find iPhones placed in the lowbrow category. My apologies to iPhone owners—I know there are a lot of you. And that’s kind of the problem. They are too mainstream to be classy.

Hipsters would agree with me.

Though iPhones are certainly the best quality of cell phone, owning one is like saying you saw Avatar.

How unoriginal.

Looking down on all iPhones is the Blackberry, which I’ve decided is easily the high brow brand of phone. In order to explain this decision, let me use the people in my life who own a Blackberry as examples.

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Most notably, Minaret Social Media Director Kyle Bennett, Minaret Editor-in-Chief Mike Trobiano and my father all have had Blackberries for as long as I can remember. Kyle’s phone is constantly vibrating as he receives

A Droid is something you buy so as to not conform to the Apple product, but you ’ re just not classy enough to have a Blackberry. texts, emails and all kinds of sports updates; Mike’s phone is doing the same since he gets tons of work related emails on a daily basis; and my father is on his phone non-stop dealing with business matters.

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DANIEL FEINGOLD

These three have not much else in common aside from the fact that there are attached to their Blackberries—they share this trait with all other Blackberry owners as well. Let me put it this way—if you own a Blackberry, your credibility automatically skyrockets.

You are frequently seen walking around campus or wherever (and you appear to be in a hurry, because you have places to be), with Blackberry in hand, eyes focused on the screen while your fingers patter away at the keyboard. You look important because of your Blackberry, whether or not you actually are an important person. Now that’s a high brow piece of technology.

There’s not much to say about the middle brow phone, which is the Droid. Yawn. A Droid is something you buy so as to not conform to the Apple product, but you’re just not classy enough to have a Blackberry.

Because owning a Blackberry would be gutsy, since Droids seem to be considered a “smarter” brand of smart phone. How do I come to this conclusion? I own a Droid. I used to have a Blackberry, but wanted a more technologically advanced phone (or what I thought was one) without being a sheep and owning an iPhone.

GRAPHIC DESIGNED BY MIKE TROBIANO

Let’s move on from phones, though. Owning an alarm clock is so far up the rung of high brow that it almost deserves its own class. As our generation seems to heavily rely on cell phones to wake us up, still using an alarm clock is nothing short of impressive. I applaud you for being in touch with a part of history.

You’re vintage. Why rely on a cell phone when you can rely on a piece of technology that’s sole purpose is to wake you up? And an alarm clock never lets you down. Except that one time it caused you to miss your final exam, and let you down.

How about technology in sports? The role of instant replay has been a hot topic in the last decade or so. Instant replay takes away part of the human element to the game at the same time

it eliminates (or at least that’s the idea) errors that potentially change the outcome of the game.

It’s middle brow, because there’s two fairly equal sides to the argument, and both of those sides have long ago been beaten to death with a blunt object.

Then there’s fantasy football.

Former NFL Head Coach Herm Edwards once said “you play to win the game.” Maybe so in reality, but not in the online world of fantasy football.

Putting it best was sports talk show host Jim Rome when he said (and I’m paraphrasing) that it’s OK to participate in fantasy football, but you play to lose. And he’s kind of right.

Fantasy football in general is the middle brow. It’s really

neither here nor there. Winning, though, reaches a low point.

You’re spending too much time on a pseudo-fictitious sport, and you’re actually good at it. I won in a fantasy football league last year.

Even more pathetic is the fact that it was my league. This year I’m just kind of hanging in there, not expecting much to come out of it.

Sure, I probably won’t be winning any money come season’s end, but at least that’s not lowbrow.

So there you have it; just the start of classifying technology into social classes. I hope you find that you belong more in the middle or higher brow, not sitting there unhappy while your iPhone notifies you that you’ve just been named champion of your fantasy football league.

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Addictions to

Networking May Blur the Line of Social Intimacy WRITTEN BY

PAOLA CRESPO

Technology is everywhere. Everywhere you look people are on their phones texting, calling someone, checking emails or on Facebook. Laptops are always present around campus and you see people walking around with the tell-tale little white iPod headphones.

The use of technology is consuming our lives.

And it’s starting to get ridiculous.

A video on YouTube was released on Oct. 31, 2011 of a bride who obviously has allowed technology to invade her life.

She had just been walked down the aisle by her father and was standing with him before the priest.

As the priest spoke, she suddenly delved her hand into the front of her wedding gown and pulled out her cell phone. She began texting someone for several minutes, one-handed as the other was still in her father’s grasp, and shoved it back into her bodice when she was finished.

Seriously? Her wedding, one of the most significant and life changing events in her life, was evidently less important than that text message. If I were the groom, I would’ve dumped her right then and there. It’s moments like these

If I were the groom, I would have dumped her right there and then.

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that really show how much technology has influenced our lives, particularly our relationships.

Modern-day relationships have significantly benefited from technology. It is now much easier to communicate and keep in contact with one another via text and online social networks. Social networks such as Facebook can also be used as a first step to beginning a relationship. If you are not comfortable asking someone for their phone number, you can add them on Facebook, which sends a less obvious and direct message.

From there, you can start talking and begin a friendly relationship that can eventually lead to something more. In the past, the only way to communicate with your significant other was by letter or maybe phone calls. Now-a-days it is so easy to, not only talk to your significant other in real time via instant messaging, but also to actually see your partner during a video call even if he or she is halfway across the globe.

But even though people are staying connected, technology is also making relationships impersonal. There are shy people who don’t feel confident unless they have a screen between them and the person they are talking to, and thus instead of actually seeing each other face to face, they communicate via text or online.

This makes it impersonal as they are not physically with their partner and cannot reveal their true selves.

This bride wanted to make sure every person responded to her Facebook invite to attend her ceremony.

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However, in another perspective, having a relationship with someone with nonpersonal contact can be advantageous.

You would then not judge them by their appearance but by their ideas, values and whatever personality can come across.

Thus a connection can be developed at a deeper emotional level.

plainly stalk people, Facebook definitely makes it easy to find and talk to others.

Thus, there are always people who skim through their Facebook friends trying to find someone they can start a relationship with until a possible candidate is found. Unless of course underneath the person’s picture is the vital caption reading “In a relationship with ____.”

But the point of this useful Facebook label is to proclaim to the world that you are indeed taken and to tell those would-be pursuers to back off.

This of course can change when the two lovers eventually meet face to face and physical imperfections and other flaws are revealed that were not detectable before.

Even though the use of technology has helped relationships, mixing technology and relationships has also created some problems. For example, there is a phrase being thrown around lately that if a relationship is not “Facebook official” it’s not real. Almost everyone is on Facebook.

Whether it’s used for people who have a lot of friends around the world, or to just

At which point, if the person seeking companionship is decent, he or she would give up and keep searching elsewhere.

However, as we have probably all encountered in our lives, there are those who don’t respect such titles and would attempt to chase after them anyway.

But the point of this useful Facebook label is to proclaim to the world that you are indeed taken and to tell those would-be pursuers to back off. It is also used for certain people as a concrete symbol of their relationship, hence the aforementioned

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phrase. It comes from the idea that if the relationship is not publicized, it is not definite.

I find it sad that people need this label as a kind of reassurance to safeguard their significant other.

Why has this become necessary?

A new profile Facebook is going to implement will enhance this paranoia and distrust in relationships. The new layout called “Timeline” is said to be released at the end of the year. This will show the chronology of a person’s activities, statuses, photos, likes and comments, all neatly displayed from the time you began using Facebook.

Your friends will now be able to see every status update you have ever written since the beginning of your Facebook usage, every comment you have ever made and every picture you have ever been tagged in. What’s more, your friends will be able to see every relationship you have ever been in and the statuses you wrote about that person, the photos you were tagged in together and every message you wrote to each other.

Can you say “awkward?” Now it will be so easy for people to stalk their partner’s past love lives and see everything they did with their ex’s. I can hear the arguments now: “You said the same thing to her! Do you recycle all of your lines?”

“Where was that picture taken? Why don’t you ever take me there?” “You told me you were never involved with him!” Let’s just say it’s going to be interesting when Timeline is finally launched.

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In any case, when all is said and done, it can’t be argued that technology has influenced our lives and relationships. People are relying on technology to find partners and keep in contact with one another.

It’s both advantageous and sometimes potentially harmful. But no matter how we feel about it, it will always be present and is only going to become more and more potent as the years go on. We have emerged into a new age where technology walks hand in hand with relationships.

But will we allow technology to define relationships? I think it already has.

I find it sad that people need this label as a kind of reassurance to safeguard their significant other.

Why has this become necessary?

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A FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE OF NON-STOP VIDEO GAMING

I sat, on my couch, feeling disappointed. I passed into coverage and ran into blitzes, i couldn’t convert on 3rd down and my defense had more holes than the oldest pair of socks in my drawer. I was 15 minutes in and down 24 points.

I sat, less than halfway through my first game of madden, losing by four scores, and i pondered what i had gotten myself into. I sat, a disheveled mess in a baggy t-shirt and baggy white basketball shorts on my school-provided couch. All i could ask myself was “how can you do this?” “Twenty-three and a half more hours?”

GAMING

Here I am. Probably about three or four hours in.

Despite my drunk friends blocking the television every few seconds and pausing for this photo, I’m still pretty invested in the game.

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I wouldn’t call myself athletic, but I’m closer to that than a couch potato. I’m active. I’m involved in the theatre and I’m a sports writer. I’ll walk before I drive if I can. I grew up playing baseball and football and moving around on a stage. I’ve never been stagnant and I’ve never stared at a television for 24 straight hours.

When I was 8, my mom bought me and my two brothers a Nintendo 64 for Christmas. Naturally, we were excited. My older brother gravitated towards action games, shooting games and the like.

I played Madden 2001, Ken Griffey Jr.’s Slugfest and Mario Tennis. My little brother played whatever we told him he was going to play.

My mom didn’t like what video games did to us. She read articles aloud at dinner about the effects electronics could have on an adolescent’s brain. She brought the evil into our house and she began to show that she could take it away. She hid the systems unless we’d done our homework, she’d allot minutes of video game time based on how much yard work we’d done. She began to use our interest to her advantage. The longest I ever played video games before was maybe PAGE 36 | THEMINARETONLINE.COM

four hours. I enjoyed them but I wasn’t someone who could just sit down and game. I have friends, many friends, who can do this. They can sit down at one end of an evening and beat up bad guys until the sun rises. Frankly, I’ve never admired this about anyone. “How can you be so close-minded to the world around you?” I thought.

I think it was a mixture of things that pushed me to this experiment. I wanted to see how my brain and body would react. Would my mom’s crazy rants be correct? Would my mind really turn to mush? And I wanted to try out a different lifestyle.

Would I regret the time I wasted? Would I simply shut off and finally relax? (Something I haven’t really done in months.)

I was going to play video games for 24 straight hours. I was going to sit and game and turn my cerebral cortex into applesauce.

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Hour 1 I laid down the ground rules for myself earlier in the day. I get as many bathroom breaks as I want. I eat while I play. I talk while I play. I use the computer while I play. I get two 15 minute breaks.

That’s it. I text my friends to come over whenever and I begin with a simple game of Madden ’11 on my friend Daniel’s Playstation 3, (He’s lent it to me so I don’t have to bear 24 hours on my original Xbox, which happens to be the most modern video game console I own.)

I begin my expedition at 11:57 p.m. on a Friday night. My friends think I’m an idiot for trying to stay awake for 36ish hours, but I decide to

do it this way, so when I finish it’ll be midnight on Saturday night. I can then go straight to bed and sleep until next year.

As mentioned earlier, I’m dominated by the computer for the first half of my first game and I head into halftime down 24-7. Daniel comes over as my first guest as I begin the second half, and he suggests that I check the difficulty. I do, and it’s set to the hardest possible setting. I bring it down a few notches to give myself a fighting chance but still lose by 10. Daniel puts in a frozen pizza. I sit. I set up my first multiplayer game of the evening. I lose.

Hours 2-6 I set up a video blog on my computer for my excursion. Every two hours, I record a video of myself talking about the experience and how I feel for maybe 45 seconds. I feel like each two hour period is going by faster than the last. We play seven minute NCAA Football quarters and the games last close to an hour each.

I’m surprisingly not really bored yet. I’ve got a plethora of sports games to choose from – NHL, NBA, NFL, NCAA, MLB. I’m not winning very much; my win/loss record stands at 14-18.

A few more friends have come back from a night of partying and they dance and putz around my static self. I like it, it’s five in the morning and I’m surrounded by drunk people while I play hockey and drink coffee. Life is still fun, the sun’s going to come up soon; I can see glimpses of light through my window. I’m jacked up on Mountain Dew, scenery and thoughts of triumph.

Hours 7-12 I switch from sports games, which might be the biggest mistake I make. My buddy Greg is giving me talk about how he can bring over his Nintendo Wii and we can play “real” games. It’s eight in the morning, the sun is up and he’s been up with me through the night.

During our last match of NCAA, I went to the bathroom and when I got out he was asleep, controller in hand and sitting up. I woke him and we finished the 2nd half. To play what he wants is the least I can do.

We agree, after some brief bickering, that we’ll play Mario Party, a board game style game that takes forever. “The longer the better” I say, and everyone agrees. It’s nice to have people as invested in this as I am.

Hours 12-16 Honestly, I’m spent. I eat pasta and I can barely even enjoy it. I’m so hungry and so tired and I feel nauseous. My stomach hurts and feels queasy and I’ve had a headache for five hours.

I’m well into hour 14.

I’ve given up keeping track of my wins and losses. The outcome doesn’t really matter anymore. I’ve gotten into a horrible habit of checking the clock after each game (“making sure I don’t have to do a video entry”). Time has stopped. I go to the bathroom and I come out. “I literally forgot how to s***,” I text Daniel. “hahahahah” is the response.

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I’m angry at everything. I don’t know how anyone can do anything that involves winning and losing for this long. It’s such a struggle with your mind.

I’m playing NCAA Football ’12 with my roommate KJ and my controller starts malfunctioning. I can’t run the ball because every time I hand the ball off, a button that I’m not pressing causes the halfback to pump fake a pass then hurdle. By the time he’s done with this semi-tribal dance move, he’s hit in the backfield for a loss of about nine. I have to pass for an entire game.

I’m getting sacked and intercepted and I suck.

I somehow manage a comeback and I’m ahead by four points with seven seconds left in the game. Last play of the game, he has the ball on his own 17. He throws for an 83-yard touchdown. I picked the wrong play and I don’t even care. I’m not surprised. I just want to die.

I’ve started to question the meaning of life.

Why, I ask Greg, should I even be allowed on this earth? How can anything be invented that has the potential to waste away a human’s life? Even if the medical effects on the brain aren’t true, the effects these machines can have on your motivation and will to live are extraordinary.

I am literally sitting on my couch wondering how I can waste an entire day and night of my life on this. You only get so many hours and I’m flushing 24 of them. I’m sad and I’m introspective and I pity the souls that can go through life, even if it’s not with video games - if it’s with anything that doesn’t truly fulfill you, and just waste away.

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I’m starting to get incredibly frustrated.

“I win again!” says Brian, my little brother in my fraternity.

“Well, you’ve f***ing been playing this game for weeks! Of course you win!” I yell.

Mario Party is made up of mini-games that involve less skill than experience and more button mashing than intelligence.

I lose often, but at the end I catch a few breaks.

I’ve been playing for eight straight hours and I finally feel my first true triumph. I jump around and gloat and after playing this board game wannabe for almost two hours, I win by a narrow margin. I guess it feels good. I’m unsure whether I’m happy that I won or that it’s over. I sit back down. They want to play again.

“Hell no.”

I say, “Who’s up for some more hockey?”

I have a headache.

Hour 19

Epilogue- 15 hours later

My girlfriend, Janet, calls and I talk as I play.

“Hey you, how’s it going?” she asks.

“It’s alright.”

“How do you feel?”

“Like s***.”

“Who all is there?”

“No one.”

We talk for a few minutes and we discuss the pros and cons of throwing in the towel. I sit, alone in my dorm room with a horrible headache and an even worse loneliness. All my friends have left to see a senior showcase or to perform and I’ve got five more hours. I envisioned the final eight hours to be a piece of cake, it’s the home-stretch.

On the plus side, if I go to bed now, it shows the extreme effect these games had on my body and mind. Also, I could stop physically hurting myself and I could sleep. On the minus side, I would fail.

And I’m sure I would hear about it and be ashamed of myself.

I make my decision and call my friend Kyle who’s been monitoring my situation closely. “I’m giving up,” I mutter.

“Well,” he says harshly. “If anything later in life happens where you had an ultimate goal and didn’t fulfill it… You can always look back on this and see where that trend started.”

It’s time for my final blog entry.

“I played a lot of games tonight and I watched the sun come up,” I say to my computer and to my empty room. “But I didn’t really do anything. I feel like a day of my life just went away. And I’m never going to get it back. It’s pretty weird.”

I shower, turn off the TV, and go to sleep.

I wake up. The weirdest and most disturbing part of this experiment is that after I wake up and feel physically better, I don’t really feel any animosity towards the video game industry. I’m angry and upset still. But at myself.

I haven’t done any homework and I can’t get the whole “wasted my life” thing out of my head.

How can you do something that wasn’t satisfying at all for 19 hours, something that helps waste away millions of people’s lives and still feel indifferent about it? I don’t know but I do.

I head over to Kyle’s a couple hours later and we watch some football. I stay for a while, sit for a while, having done nothing for almost three days straight. I get up to leave and he asks if I want to play a game of NHL with him on Xbox… “Just one,” I reply.

We play two and I win them both. But I leave so unsatisfied.

OPINION 12/11

IS

Anonymous A FRIEND OR FOE? Unnamed Internet Hackers Play the Role of Both Hero and Villain WRITTEN BY

ANNABELLA PALOPOLI

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When hearing of an organization that took down 40 child porn websites, was able to get sufficient information to take down the second most powerful drug cartel in Mexico and regularly works to reveal governmental and corporate corruption, it may be easy to assume that it is essentially ‘good.’

This organization, referred to as Anonymous, does play the hero in certain cases, but they usually do so through illegal means. Unfortunately, there have been dozens of other operations carried out by Anonymous that were just as illegal, but far less righteous.

It is difficult to know whether or not to be in favor of these vigilantes, as not all of their crimes are for the common good. I am generally in favor

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of Anonymous and their intentions, but many others are not.

It’s a bit difficult to explain what Anonymous actually is. Anonymous is an international hacking ‘group’ that originated in 2003 on the Internet, specifically the imageboard 4chan, as recognized

by Luke Allnutt in his article on the Tangled Web. It’s not exactly an official group because there aren’t set members, nor a leader. Their name was inspired by the ‘Anonymous’ username that is shown when website visitors comment or post without specifying the originator of the content.

As the anonymous posters became more numerous, the idea of Anonymous was formed for any and all anonymous Internet users as an unnamed collective. Any member of Anonymous must

Since there is no oppointed leader, members of Anonymous act independently yet still gather as a group.

never reveal their identity. To become a member, it is as simple as concealing oneself whilst performing online activities. Anonymous relies on the collective power of its individual participants acting in such a way that the net effect benefits the group, as there is no leader, noted Chris Landers of Baltimore City Paper.

A member of Anonymous, or an ‘Anon’, explains to the Baltimore City Paper, “We have this agenda that we all agree on and we all coordinate and act, but all act independently toward it, without any want for recognition. We just want to get something that we feel is important done...”

Internet events involving Anonymous began in 2005, one of the first being the “Habbo raids.”

Habbo is a simulation social networking site designed to be like a virtual hotel.

“Hundreds of Anonymous users showed up using identically dressed avatars: a black man with an Afro in a grey suit,” explains Ryan Singel of Wired.com.

These Anons blocked entry to popular hangouts on the site, including the virtual hotel pool, saying it was ‘closed due to AIDS.’ This, actually, (according you knowyourmeme.com) was a reference to a real-life case reported by AOL News where an HIV-positive toddler was banned from a public pool. At first this action seems like random, unnecessary harassment to Habbo and its users, but it was revealed (anonymously, of course) on 4chan that Habbo’s social moderators were racists, using their ban powers against Black-avatar users.

According to knowyourmeme.com, Anonymous had created these avatars as a way to protest against Habbo’s alleged racism. These raids are what made Anonymous well-known on the Internet and in “real life,” as controversy on the raids was discussed on local news stations.

Anonymous is also a strong supporter of WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organization that publishes private and classified media from anonymous news sources and leaks.

WikiLeaks has received much criticism due to its exposure of this classified information, but it has also received praise.

The UK Information Commissioner has said that, “WikiLeaks is part of the phenomenon of the online, empowered citizen.” This description sounds similar to the description of Anonymous.

Supporters of WikiLeaks have commended it for exposing state’s and corporate’s secret corruption, increasing openness in communication and accountability, supporting freedom of the press and “enhancing democratic discourse while challenging powerful institutions,” says Anand Kul Bhushan of Osho World News.

Anonymous targeted the government websites of Zimbabwe and of Tunisia, both of which censored the WikiLeaks documents. They also launched DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks against MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon, which were perceived by Anonymous to be engaging in anti-WikiLeaks behavior. On December 8, 2010, both Visa’s and MasterCard’s websites were down.

OPINION Although the actions of Anonymous are extremely radical and may be over the top, they seem to be using civil disobedience to fight against anyone who is risking the right to freedom of speech or censoring the Internet.

It may not be the best idea to protest against things through illegal means, but their intentions are usually good. I approved (to some extent) of WikiLeaks when it appeared. I would never hack anything myself, but I do agree with Anonymous. Much of what they do can be perceived as estimable.

Other Anonymous events are not as honorable. For example, there is a good possibility (as Wired News says there is at least circumstantial evidence) that it was the Anons who raided the Epilepsy Foundation of America’s forum in 2008 with flashing animations with the intention of triggering seizures and migraines in photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics. These kinds of raids, the ones with no moral purpose, are the ones of which I completely disapprove.

However, Anonymous claimed that the Church of Scientology had planned these attacks in order to “to ruin the public opinion of Anonymous, [and] to lessen the effect of the lawful protests against their virulent organization,” as was reported by News.com.au.

Anonymous had been protesting against the Church of Scientology in 2008 due to their Internet censorship and their disconnection policy, which is when a Scientologist ceases communication with all people, even family, who are considered antagonistic towards Scientology.

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Regarding Scientology’s actions of Internet censorship, a video produced by the Church that leaked on to Youtube on Jan. 14, 2008 was taken down at the Church’s request. The video showed an interview with Tom Cruise discussing Scientology.

The Church called this a a copyright violation and requested that Youtube remove the video. In retaliation, Anonymous started Project Chanology, where they attacked the Church through prank calls, denial-ofservice attacks on their websites and black faxes (a prank fax transmission where all pages are filled with black tone with the intention of consuming the recipient’s ink or toner).

However, it is still not clear who the perpetrator was in the case of the Epilepsy forum, but members of the forum have claimed that they saw a thread on 7chan.org, one of Anonymous’s ‘home bases,’ in which Anons were planning the attack. This cannot be proven, as every thread on these types of imageboards are automati-

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The mask worn by the group is an artistic interpretation of Guy Fawkes, who attempted to bomb the British Parliament in 1605.

cally deleted after a certain period of time.

It is also easy to blame all of Anonymous when it may be just one subgroup of Anonymous executing the negative events and causing chaos. But, since everything is anonymous, it is difficult to decipher what is truly a collective effort from all its members and what is a misrepresentation of the group from immature subgroups.

In Jan. of 2009, John Rogers of The Associated Press reported that Anons targeted McKay Hatch, a teenage boy from California who ran a website called the No Cussing Club-- a website against profanity. Anons, deciding this was ridiculous, leaked Hatch’s personal information online, including his phone number and address, for fun. Hatch and his family received prank calls, bogus pornography

deliveries and hate mail. This harassment does not have any moral reasons to support it.

Some Anons use their hacking powers to harass innocent victims “for the lulz,” (LOLs/laughs), as they say. One self-description, which Scott S of Yale Law & Technology (yalelawtech.org) shared, is: “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”

Anons also say this ‘catchphrase’ at the end of many of their announcement videos, such the video ‘We Are Anonymous’ on Youtube by user WeWhisperTheTruth. This ominous message sounds threatening and it does not put Anonymous in a good light.

Although, this collection of users cannot be fit under one definition.

The power that Anonymous has is quite frightening. As Jason

In October 2011, Anonymous executed Operation DarkNet, in which they took down 40 child pornography websites and published the names of over 1,500 users of such sites.

OPINION 12/11

In October, the group was able to take down over 100 GB of child pornography from a third party server calling the mission “dark net.”

Schreir of GameLife reports, Anonymous was said to have caused the major outage of the Playstation Network in Apr. 2011, in which personal information from approximately 77 million Playstation Network accounts were stolen and users of Playstation 3 and Playstation Portable were not able to play online through the server.

This was “arguably the second largest data breach ever,” according to Dr. Paul Judge, chief research officer and and vice president of Barracuda Networks, a privately held company that provides security and storage solutions. As frightening as this breach is, it is also extremely impressive.

Anonymous has officially admitted to attacks on Sony websites due to Sony’s gaining access to the IP addresses of everyone who visited the blog of George Hotz, the alleged initial hacker of the Playstation 3, whose blog included information about his hacking methods.

Anonymous decided that it wasn’t fair for Sony to target people who merely visited the site of Hotz. They believe that it was offensive against free speech and Internet freedom. Therefore, they took action. I can’t say I don’t agree with them, but they took their aggression a little farther than they should have.

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executing Operation DarkNet, in which they took down 40 child pornography websites and published the names of over 1,500 users of such sites.

Child porn sites are run on scattered volunteer servers in the “dark net” corners of cyberspace.

Because of this, it is extremely difficult for anyone, including the government, to monitor their content. One server, called ‘Freedom Hosting,’ housed 40 child porn sites with over 100 GB of child pornography, and Anonymous disabled it. The enormous task of this project shows how powerful Anonymous is. This is one of the most impressive displays of ‘crime-fighting’ with technology that I’ve come across.

I’m sure the government in charge of this, or the cyberspace chaperones, as I like to call them, takes down illegal content on a daily basis. The difference is that they don’t do anything illegally (although, I guess it’s on their terms), so they might not be able to get to the stuff that Anonymous can get through hacking.

The Patriot Act allows the U.S. government to monitor anything sent over the Internet, but it is extremely difficult to track and monitor scattered severs with highly concealed information. Anonymous was able to do this. The means through which they acquired this information was no doubt through illegal hacking, but, as vigilantes, they committed a crime for the greater good. If

having your child porn subscription information released to the public is not enough of a motivation to quit being a pervert, I’m not sure what is.

In the other recent case of Anonymous’s deeds, they released a video in which they claimed that Los Zetas had kidnapped an Anon.

Los Zetas is the second most powerful drug cartel in Mexico, and it is considered to be the “most violent drug cartel and paramilitary enforcement group in Mexico,” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Anonymous had acquired the personal information of many members of the cartel and their collaborators in politics, police, military and business, says Robert Beckhusen of Wired.com. Unless the Anon hostage was released, Anonymous threatened to release this information, which would lead to their prosecution by the Mexican authorities or even by rival cartels. Anonymous followed up this threat “by defacing the website of former Tabasco state prosecutor Gustavo Rosario Torres, accused by anti-crime activists three years ago of discussing a $200,000 cocaine deal with a deputy on audio tape,” says Beckhusen.

On Nov. 4, 2011, the Anon was freed, according to an article on msnbc.com. I’d like to see our government attempt to get even one of the member’s information. Ten points for Anonymous.

Anonymous was able to get information on Los Zetas that even the government could not acquire. This is an incredible display of their power.

Although, it is difficult to say whether or not Anonymous’s activity should be accepted and allowed. Even though they commit crimes to

reveal corruption and for the betterment of the Americans’ right to freedom (at least many of them do), they are still breaking the law. And not all of what they do is noble. I think of them as sort of unstable and less righteous version of the Boondock Saints. Except instead of the MacManus twins murdering to expel crime and evil from Boston, hundreds or thousands of Anons hack to reiterate their freedom of speech and to end Internet censorship...and to occasionally screw people over for the lulz.

But, they do not do so through violent means.

Gandhi, Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. are advocators of civil disobedience. Now, I’m not saying that Anonymous is the modern day Gandhi, trust me. It doesn’t come close.

But Gandhi, Parks and MLK are examples of people who use civil disobedience for good rather than evil. Many subgroups of Anonymous may be wreaking havoc among the technological world, but the majority (or so it seems) of Anons work together well enough to accomplish extraordinary and beneficial things, even if they are illegal.

Deciding whether or not to support Anonymous is a tough decision, but you have to know the reasons behind what they do. Some of their cruel acts have a moral purpose. This doesn’t necessarily make these acts OK, but no one else is working to stop such corruption.

I support Anonymous, as it is the first Internet superconscience, using the power of its collective members to fight against corruption in higher powers. However, they can be dangerous. Remember: We do not forgive. We do not forget.

Currently, many members of Anonymous are protesting in the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City.

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18-21 DEVIOUS PURPOSES: THE MARRIAGE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MOVEMENT: “fractalsound” via imageshack.com; “Interaction 1.0” and “ya-ju mov” courtesy of bradfordblackburn.com.

22-25 UNIVERSITIES AT FOREFRONT OF MINI-SATELLITE INNOVATIONS: “p-pods on detaii,” “dnepr 45 integration...” and “p-pod mk...” courtesy of cubesat.org; “sprite satellite” courtesy of Cornell University.

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26-29 72 HOUR BLACKOUT: Statistics found at the following: informationweek.com, mobithinking.com, agbeat.com.

35-39 24 HOURS TO GAME: “PS3 Controller” by xitemp via photobucket.com.

40-45 IS ANONYMOUS A FRIEND OR FOE?: “Anonymous”

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