Picnik (Online Photo Editing)

Sometime last year I tried to move as much computer-based stuff (Word Documents, Music, Calender, etc) as I could to web-based, even going so far as trying to get an online OS, which I didn't like. One of the things that I tried and liked a lot was a service called Picnik. Picnik is an online flash based photo editor capable of editing photos very well, I would say that for most people it will edit your photos as well as Photoshop or any other professional software but you won't have to have a bloated program filling up your hard drive. For Picnik is ad supported and you do have to have a place to host your picture files (Picasa, Flikr, Facebook, Your hard drive, and many others). There are two membership types to choose from, one free and one that you pay $24.95 per year, not a bad price but right now I don't think that there is really a reason to get that but they are adding more things as time goes on so it might be worth pay the $25 for. So if you are looking to touch up some of your picture and want an easy and free way to do it without getting a bulky program on your computer then you should give Picnik a try.

Face in the Smoke

While I was looking up stuff for one of my other posts I came across this picture which I remembered from being circulated around in emails right after 9/11 with titles paragraphs about who this is Satan's face, and this is proof that Satan was behind the 9/11 attacks. Now I am not saying that Satan wasn't behind the attacks and I am not really talking about them right now, but what struck me from seeing this picture is how it looks nothing like what Satan would look like (not that I know what Satan does look like, but I do think that I can spot a picture that doesn't look like Satan), in fact I think that this smoke looks like a character in Viva Pinata more than it looks like the lord of the under world. But this struck me, that people read or see what they want in pictures, text, and just about any media really easy. This translates into the Bible, radio, people's statements (which we can see playing out right now in the politics between Obama and Clinton). Looking at this picture I can't help but start to think what have I gotten caught up in, what have I started to see that isn't really there?

On something a little bit lighter when I was writing this post I decided to go on Google Trends and search Obama, Clinton. Check out the results for the last twelve months here.