If we were evangels, if we had more hope for the dead
Vigilance is what you see / in the cornfield now (vDaily-short-arcane) why 'arcane" (several recdent rw headlines 'arcane' where I wonder what is the secret knowledge that is relevant, which I guess is what an uninitiate would wonder - is there something here into which one could be inititated or un- ?)
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
del.icio.us/mashedpotatoe/mcdonalds
BBC NEWS Business McDonalds lets families share job ...to innovate innovation labour bbc mcdonalds maccyd's in social innovation thing -----------------[full text of BBC article ~notice] Members of the same family working in the same outlet will be able to swap shifts without giving prior notice or getting a manager's permission. The new contracts were aimed at cutting absenteeism and improving staff retention, the company said. It said they were tested in Cardiff, Cambridge, Stoke and Luton, and were the first of their kind in the UK. It was hoped the contracts would also "encourage people to become fully trained and fully rotatable". It is currently limited to family members, but might be extended to cover friends who work at the same restaurant.
Open for Discussion ... to corporate social mcdonalds blog mcdonalds start blogging mainly to up their CSR rating i reckon... saved by 26 other people ------------------A "corporate responsibility" blog by McDonald's. Certainly unexpected. Of course, the over-praising of Temple Grandin didn't sit well with me, but it should be interesting to see what kind of things show up here.- vegblog over praising Temple Grandin? McDs was? for her work designing cattle slaughter facilities I guess
arg a little - blogger doing this thing ~ formatting? ~ where I am forced Forced to skip full line when hit return (the skipped line is unreachable by the cursor) - I look at html but it what may be encoded formatting I do not quickly discern
TimeSnapper - make timesheets a snap ... saved by 410 other people [410 saved main URl vs 7 saved FAQ page, below]
TimeSnapper - play back your week just like a movie [/FAQ] (I changed the tagline to other words from their page) to z0605 web fxn a ... saved by 7 other people ... 3 min ago .....via mashedpotatoe dlcs: 'own personal very dull documentary' // TimeSnapper is an Automatic Screenshot Journal. runs in th background,taking screenshots of yr desktp ev few secs allweeklong [cleared autom each week?]
Does it fill up your hard-drive with images?--Suprisingly, no. There are four features that stop TimeSnapper from over-using your hard drive.Firstly, no images are taken when the computer is idle. So if you are away from your computer, or leave it on overnight, no snapshots are taken. Second, there is an archiving feature, that you can use to specify, "Delete all images older than 14 days" (or as many days as you choose). You can also limit TimeSnapper to use no more than a certain number of mega-bytes of hard drive space. The third feature is that you can configure the resolution of the images, and take smaller, or fuzzier images if you wish. This can have a dramatic reduction on the required hard drive space.
The fourth feature that helps, is the amount of time between images. If you have very limited space, you can take snapshots less often. Perhaps only once per minute, or even once every ten minutes. It will still give a fairly useful picture of where all that time went. ooh yeah whoa "every few seconds" this fast moving world of productivity and time sheets - and so they say "every week" I guess bcs that's the typical timesheet unit (more common than 2weeks?) --- anyway no don't think I want this, more saved is more to arrange for preservation, and have to be demanding of satisfaction vs too much arrangearrangearrangeKeep
TimeSnapper - play back your week just like a movie [/FAQ] (I changed the tagline to other words from their page) to z0605 web fxn a ... saved by 7 other people ... 3 min ago .....via mashedpotatoe dlcs: 'own personal very dull documentary' // TimeSnapper is an Automatic Screenshot Journal. runs in th background,taking screenshots of yr desktp ev few secs allweeklong [cleared autom each week?]
Does it fill up your hard-drive with images?--Suprisingly, no. There are four features that stop TimeSnapper from over-using your hard drive.Firstly, no images are taken when the computer is idle. So if you are away from your computer, or leave it on overnight, no snapshots are taken. Second, there is an archiving feature, that you can use to specify, "Delete all images older than 14 days" (or as many days as you choose). You can also limit TimeSnapper to use no more than a certain number of mega-bytes of hard drive space. The third feature is that you can configure the resolution of the images, and take smaller, or fuzzier images if you wish. This can have a dramatic reduction on the required hard drive space.
The fourth feature that helps, is the amount of time between images. If you have very limited space, you can take snapshots less often. Perhaps only once per minute, or even once every ten minutes. It will still give a fairly useful picture of where all that time went. ooh yeah whoa "every few seconds" this fast moving world of productivity and time sheets - and so they say "every week" I guess bcs that's the typical timesheet unit (more common than 2weeks?) --- anyway no don't think I want this, more saved is more to arrange for preservation, and have to be demanding of satisfaction vs too much arrangearrangearrangeKeep
Avant Game .blogspot ---to z0605 virtual z ... saved by 37 other people ... 9 min ago
blogger's current featured blog - seen this, J Mcdonigal before - not marked? - ah dlwwJan - dn mark this or her main site avantgame.com [sidebar: alrdy have pretty gd record of th thinking & writing & designing & talking that I do]
dlww 1/4/06: jane-mcgonigal-excels-at-such-deep-and --- to z0605 virtual a ... just posted whdoIthink re life as play?projects.projection (H).~Amilee,You&Me&Ev,JSFoer-obv a list I'm negtv twd//see endofthispost-dBtreatgworldobjstobemanipulatd// dlcs note re avntgm.com "realise belatedly th live real world,can interact"-mashedpotatoe
------------what do I think about life as play? projects. projection (H). e.g. roll cookies~Amilee, You and Me and Everybody We Know, JSFoer's projects- what did dB say? treating the world as objects to be manipulated. --- is there anything wrong with that? (like) world-relation of manic mood. extreme enthusiasm. extreme agency.
at least some if not most of negative feeling arises reading other people's raves 'j mcd excels at such deep and...' but maybe just listening to jsfoer talk about own projects has same effect as hearing other people exuberantly compliment -- it disheartens me -- ? -- not bcs as mashedpotatoe's note on dlcs 'geeky' or is it the same and that's not what I wld say? maybe what means by geeky is actually sth I don't like, I just think of geeky as sth else ~ smart ~ wh I do like - but maybe he~ means sth like jaime re 'dork' - sth off ~offensive in relation to world - not just estranged but compensating in ugly way --well avant game does not seem ugly only offensive personally as way of life depressing to me -- bcs to me like geared twd undepressing? like I dont want real life to need fabrication to feel real -so sort of like mashedpotatoe's comment --this is relevant to me as about realise yes live yes real yes world yes. ~no hard feelings twd this as 'belated' ~maybe hard feelings twd no sadness about that - celebration of real-ness, agency, enthusiam if not also grief than still feels unreal to me, I'm lost.
blogger's current featured blog - seen this, J Mcdonigal before - not marked? - ah dlwwJan - dn mark this or her main site avantgame.com [sidebar: alrdy have pretty gd record of th thinking & writing & designing & talking that I do]
dlww 1/4/06: jane-mcgonigal-excels-at-such-deep-and --- to z0605 virtual a ... just posted whdoIthink re life as play?projects.projection (H).~Amilee,You&Me&Ev,JSFoer-obv a list I'm negtv twd//see endofthispost-dBtreatgworldobjstobemanipulatd// dlcs note re avntgm.com "realise belatedly th live real world,can interact"-mashedpotatoe
------------what do I think about life as play? projects. projection (H). e.g. roll cookies~Amilee, You and Me and Everybody We Know, JSFoer's projects- what did dB say? treating the world as objects to be manipulated. --- is there anything wrong with that? (like) world-relation of manic mood. extreme enthusiasm. extreme agency.
at least some if not most of negative feeling arises reading other people's raves 'j mcd excels at such deep and...' but maybe just listening to jsfoer talk about own projects has same effect as hearing other people exuberantly compliment -- it disheartens me -- ? -- not bcs as mashedpotatoe's note on dlcs 'geeky' or is it the same and that's not what I wld say? maybe what means by geeky is actually sth I don't like, I just think of geeky as sth else ~ smart ~ wh I do like - but maybe he~ means sth like jaime re 'dork' - sth off ~offensive in relation to world - not just estranged but compensating in ugly way --well avant game does not seem ugly only offensive personally as way of life depressing to me -- bcs to me like geared twd undepressing? like I dont want real life to need fabrication to feel real -so sort of like mashedpotatoe's comment --this is relevant to me as about realise yes live yes real yes world yes. ~no hard feelings twd this as 'belated' ~maybe hard feelings twd no sadness about that - celebration of real-ness, agency, enthusiam if not also grief than still feels unreal to me, I'm lost.
do I care if I never see this again? [thought test]
no. .. I'd just as soon not see this again ~ why? ~ too obvious ~too imprinted in mind --
does not ~return ~interest -- stays there
a photograph I like ~ like a phrase I don't mind reading over and over
you are such a pretty color ~ I could look at you forever
no. .. I'd just as soon not see this again ~ why? ~ too obvious ~too imprinted in mind --
does not ~return ~interest -- stays there
a photograph I like ~ like a phrase I don't mind reading over and over
you are such a pretty color ~ I could look at you forever
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Denny, when you launched yourself in court like a pop-tart -
smile thinking of this, each time, repeatedly - Alan Shore on balcony just after Denny has said "We don't know if he's guilty or innocent. I hate that." re the man who upped his dying wife's morphine drip and who after being found not guilty exchanged a loving look with nurse. Alan saw the look then in parting said to client that there is often a post-verdict come-down, "I usually advise my clients not to be alone. Do you have someone to keep you company tonight?" --Alan's so intelligent. it really is sexy, such intelligence. maybe specifically, at least in way like andrew saying that kids in college like reading Derrida and Foucault bcs that's the sexy stuff. (but not the same sexiness ~ that's transgressive ish exciting? ~ this AlanShore-StephenColbert sexiness is -maybe- the undeniability of someone else there -of another mind so thoroughly at work in the room)
Denny 'launched himself in court like a pop-tart when the opposing counsel was crossing the witness. D- He was badgering our client, I had to break the flow. A- The judge had just said, Sometimes in these situations, it is more about ending the family's suffering than the victim's. Is that what happened with your father?
A- How did you get the doctor to do it?
D- Denny Crane. I was still the real thing then.
BLegal: just as good in repeats
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smile thinking of this, each time, repeatedly - Alan Shore on balcony just after Denny has said "We don't know if he's guilty or innocent. I hate that." re the man who upped his dying wife's morphine drip and who after being found not guilty exchanged a loving look with nurse. Alan saw the look then in parting said to client that there is often a post-verdict come-down, "I usually advise my clients not to be alone. Do you have someone to keep you company tonight?" --Alan's so intelligent. it really is sexy, such intelligence. maybe specifically, at least in way like andrew saying that kids in college like reading Derrida and Foucault bcs that's the sexy stuff. (but not the same sexiness ~ that's transgressive ish exciting? ~ this AlanShore-StephenColbert sexiness is -maybe- the undeniability of someone else there -of another mind so thoroughly at work in the room)
Denny 'launched himself in court like a pop-tart when the opposing counsel was crossing the witness. D- He was badgering our client, I had to break the flow. A- The judge had just said, Sometimes in these situations, it is more about ending the family's suffering than the victim's. Is that what happened with your father?
A- How did you get the doctor to do it?
D- Denny Crane. I was still the real thing then.
BLegal: just as good in repeats
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"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a fundamentally good idea.
Its a frickin great idea. (~ Thms Merton ~ it only ever worked in a monastery ~ frick in bum mer )
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rw: Way-long but insightful multiple-choice political-philosophy questionnaire (8pg via vBoat)
Its a frickin great idea. (~ Thms Merton ~ it only ever worked in a monastery ~ frick in bum mer )
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rw: Way-long but insightful multiple-choice political-philosophy questionnaire (8pg via vBoat)
Monday, May 29, 2006
I'd really see it, and I did--
The light was lavender. The unpainted houses
were almost the color of the air
air color, almost---sodden (this was the South)
a piece of broken mirror to each picket top
a crazy iconography decoration why not decorate morning?
Irregular jagged jagg'd disconnected mad
[Something I've Meant to Write About for 30 Years - by Elizabeth Bishop - The Florida East Coast Railrod: dawn] printed in New Yorker issue of Mar 6, 2006.
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The light was lavender. The unpainted houses
were almost the color of the air
air color, almost---sodden (this was the South)
a piece of broken mirror to each picket top
a crazy iconography decoration why not decorate morning?
Irregular jagged jagg'd disconnected mad
[Something I've Meant to Write About for 30 Years - by Elizabeth Bishop - The Florida East Coast Railrod: dawn] printed in New Yorker issue of Mar 6, 2006.
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Sunday, May 28, 2006
rw: Vbored 'Yugoslavian' tween uploads mostly funny-faces (flickr-1800pix-arcane)
?? hidden or secret; esoteric. Esotericism refers to knowledge suitable only for the advanced, privileged, or initiated, as opposed to exoteric knowledge, which is public.
?? hidden or secret; esoteric. Esotericism refers to knowledge suitable only for the advanced, privileged, or initiated, as opposed to exoteric knowledge, which is public.
two girls switch places during WWII
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Loganberry Books: Stump the Bookseller: T (Children's Books 1978 p.3) The cover of the reprint can be seen on Amazon. ... T130: two girls switch places during WWII Solved: Searching for Shona ... logan.com/loganberry/stump-t.html - 231k - Cached -
oh....! found. been making occasional small attempts for years. today prompted by cust lkg for 'Christopher for Congress' about a little boy running.. cldn't find anything, suggested try asking a childrens librarian. then ggl: "children's books" "two girls switch places" war. and found - huh- in exactly the context of booksellers helping find books a person remembers from childhood - this is great:
Book Stumper http://logan.com/loganberry/stump.html Have you forgotten the title of your favorite children's book? This is a service to help solve your book mysteries. Submit your memory here, and see if anyone else remembers your book memory, or better yet, knows the title and author! About Loganberry
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after the (unexpectd) 7yr life trade, girl finds other girl (who living wealthy life) who denies her-- says I dont know you.
after the (unexpectd) 7yr life trade, girl finds other girl (who living wealthy life) who denies her-- says I dont know you.
what was it about this that so impressed me?
Saturday, May 27, 2006
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since last noted here (~backup dlcs) & mdlww ~25March.
Wired 14.04: Geekonomics - *scarcity* I've always valued you - ... on march 30
rw:Without scarcity there's no game (EdC-Wired-shortish)
Thanks to God, the Man, or whoever's running this show, we're used to taking scarcity for granted.The emergence of virtual communities means that we have to make it explicit...
dlcs note - zuzu_Why abundance sucks, and other unexpected lessons of the game economy.
Experimental Gameplay Project read comments for links re ARPS, games reminded of, and: -12:17 iwish i had parents, A parent... -12:14 URL doesn't the url work url? -02:53 the URL doesn't work
WendellWit ... on march 2
homepage (via his profile) of mefi wendell whose tagline suggestns on 2 threads read tonite (>dlww) were indeed witty. and: BluesGuide.com - How To Sing the Blues via wendellwit: “I didn’t wake up this morning” and on april18: WendellWit » Blog Archive » Live Bitchily mecha:The finalists for AprilWinchell.com's citibank slogan contest. Vote for me.:wendell. [elsewhere wendell's mefi taglines were my favorite, so.] +link to AprilW's pg and to citibank's campaign page with all their slogans... MetaChat - The finalists for AprilWinchell.com's citibank slogan contest. "Don't worry about your money. Let US do it for you. Heh heh heh." That's why the fake citibank slogans aren't just good satire; they are a way of life.
Wired 14.04: Geekonomics - *scarcity* I've always valued you - ... on march 30
rw:Without scarcity there's no game (EdC-Wired-shortish)
Thanks to God, the Man, or whoever's running this show, we're used to taking scarcity for granted.The emergence of virtual communities means that we have to make it explicit...
dlcs note - zuzu_Why abundance sucks, and other unexpected lessons of the game economy.
Experimental Gameplay Project read comments for links re ARPS, games reminded of, and: -12:17 iwish i had parents, A parent... -12:14 URL doesn't the url work url? -02:53 the URL doesn't work
WendellWit ... on march 2
homepage (via his profile) of mefi wendell whose tagline suggestns on 2 threads read tonite (>dlww) were indeed witty. and: BluesGuide.com - How To Sing the Blues via wendellwit: “I didn’t wake up this morning” and on april18: WendellWit » Blog Archive » Live Bitchily mecha:The finalists for AprilWinchell.com's citibank slogan contest. Vote for me.:wendell. [elsewhere wendell's mefi taglines were my favorite, so.] +link to AprilW's pg and to citibank's campaign page with all their slogans... MetaChat - The finalists for AprilWinchell.com's citibank slogan contest. "Don't worry about your money. Let US do it for you. Heh heh heh." That's why the fake citibank slogans aren't just good satire; they are a way of life.
MOVING ON--Mark Morris’s twenty-fifth. -The New Yorker: Issue of 2006-04-10: The Critics: Dancing rw: Beautiful MarkMorris dance retrospective (NYer-Acocella-longish)
flickr photo search results/tags:wallpaper+motel ~also~ trailer haggard
[wallpaper] Untitled photo shadowplay/4485049/ (rwwl woman). b&w. my motel feeling. strong, tired. ~
and my: “And to your right you’ll see an extremely troubled young woman who thinks she’s a tour guide.” (Tour guide talking to couple who are apparently not on a tour.) Cartoonbank.com /product_details - 24 April New Yorker cartoon by Michael Shaw
..someone wants a free rate quote from Geico. - Well. yeah. course they do. [my favorite moments all contain gecko saying " 'course", do they?] GEICO Video Library /exclusivity and: [RH- goes interior for a moment:] 'course they want free pie&chips.." ... leans back on tree trunk, loses balance, resettles.... leans back on tree trunk, loses balance, resettles.
"he. then I. then we."
trying to remember something, prompted by similar voice of M in The Accidental
gardengal: oh for christsake, you're killing me with this cat.
meadows: if this cat was mine, well everything wld be ok
photographer dogseat cptn:He's/she's/its got his/her/its own set. [7pics..]
DSC_6128 /dogseat/147526188/in/set-72057594136160615/
Friday, May 26, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Flikr (pro user) - I need help with my homework - flickr.com/groups/thebiggestgroup/discuss
I love it I love it -I haven't even begun consider problem and just only skimmed a bit but this conversation is delight. -problem solving maybe makes for great conversation (sjc math tutorial w/MrsR & dB & jaime) -but here also just unrelatedly pleasant comments -eg:-We all live in little boxes with our ticy tacy
-Common, flikr! it is one right? please tell me! I naked here! well I'm watching discovery channel where they are naked! One!
Common!
flikr1313 /flikr/143683152/in/photostream/
via rwwl to flikr1314: algorithmic
reading photosleavehome
Photos Leave Home
Research notes from an ESRC study about personal photography and the web
--by kc, research fellow at the University of Surrey, working in the INCITE research group within the Department of Sociology, and now a PhD student in the Art History department at the University of Chicago
Research notes from an ESRC study about personal photography and the web
--by kc, research fellow at the University of Surrey, working in the INCITE research group within the Department of Sociology, and now a PhD student in the Art History department at the University of Chicago
Thanks to [temporarily anonymous] for giving me an Instant Messaging lesson: you were a model of grace, distraction, eloquence, and endurance. You teach me that distraction is only distraction when I adhere too dogmatically to goals, protocols and intentions. mm. In defter hands, distraction is a more expansive mode of conversing. yesyeah my
Violations 15Feb05
Thanks also to erinpower for the IM chat. You've got me thinking about the episodes which reveal that privacy works differently online—is something different, is sustained, protected and violated differently. Not that this will be a surprise to some people, but its one thing to theorise it, another to have specific cases to think about.
One can be honest in photographs in a way that one cannot in text. Some forms of honesty require an absence of censorship, or an absence of the need to censor. Photos are a different kind of code than written posts, they establish different kinds of relationships with their viewers—the form of relationship varies strongly according to how familiar a viewer is with the life of the blogger-photographer. well text too at lst as I
But think, too, about a situation where blog text is appropriated without attribution and compare it to one where a photograph is appropriated. Both might be felt as a kind of theft, but if they are also experienced as personal violations, they are different sorts of violations, aren't they? Imagine a photograph of a kiss...you and a friend are kissing. Someone you don't know steals the photo from your photoblog and posts it on their own site. When we imagine the worst from this scenario, what do we imagine? What kind of site steals our photos, what do our photographs sit amongst in the worst case scenario? What text accompanies them? And then, what about our writing? What is the nightmare scenario there, and are they the same types of nightmare? I think they're probably not. huh. I don know-
I might feel more of myself in bit o text
than in an image of my face. the image ~ is more public. I did not make it (even if I took the photo) it is not ~ of my thoughts ~
Violations 15Feb05
Thanks also to erinpower for the IM chat. You've got me thinking about the episodes which reveal that privacy works differently online—is something different, is sustained, protected and violated differently. Not that this will be a surprise to some people, but its one thing to theorise it, another to have specific cases to think about.
One can be honest in photographs in a way that one cannot in text. Some forms of honesty require an absence of censorship, or an absence of the need to censor. Photos are a different kind of code than written posts, they establish different kinds of relationships with their viewers—the form of relationship varies strongly according to how familiar a viewer is with the life of the blogger-photographer. well text too at lst as I
But think, too, about a situation where blog text is appropriated without attribution and compare it to one where a photograph is appropriated. Both might be felt as a kind of theft, but if they are also experienced as personal violations, they are different sorts of violations, aren't they? Imagine a photograph of a kiss...you and a friend are kissing. Someone you don't know steals the photo from your photoblog and posts it on their own site. When we imagine the worst from this scenario, what do we imagine? What kind of site steals our photos, what do our photographs sit amongst in the worst case scenario? What text accompanies them? And then, what about our writing? What is the nightmare scenario there, and are they the same types of nightmare? I think they're probably not. huh. I don know-
I might feel more of myself in bit o text
than in an image of my face. the image ~ is more public. I did not make it (even if I took the photo) it is not ~ of my thoughts ~
One Hour Photo 16Feb05 good rvw of the movie
As if invoked (I'm not sure it would have arrived here by more conscious means) by my recent post, a video comes home about violation. 2003's One Hour Photo-fox.
Robin Williams (Psi) is a SavMart photo lab technician. He has been for 20 years. He's middle aged, balding, but in case we don't immediately recognise how unattractive he is, he wears big square metal frame glasses which he's forever pushing up onto his nose with the middle finger push, and he carries a retro airline bag—which only makes the filmmakers appear anachronistic, because didn't they notice that those are cool now? Robin Williams is unattractive and so therefore (the film implies...no, nothing implied...the film states, bluntly and often) he is without family. This is the film's central point and principle thesis about photography, as stated in an early wistful voice over by Robin Williams. The first line spoken along the film's timeline (after a Sunset Blvd-esque opening sequence where we see Robin Williams post-denouement, arrested and of course, mug-shotted) is: "Family pictures depict smiling faces." But Robin Williams has no family. He does, however, work in a photo lab and there he processes the family pictures for a lot of families. This is the opportunity the film seizes on for its horror effects: his access to other people's photos.
To get this film made, the producers exploited two things: 1. the star power of Robin Williams and 2. the intimacy and vulnerability of family photographs, their genre potential for horror. But to make the exploitation work, the film has to invent a main character who works in a photo lab. ..Now, assuming that Hollywood has noticed photoblogs, flickrs and the like, they wouldn't need to make their antagonist a photo lab technician. He could be any old creep with an internet connection.
I don't think that photographs are any less vulnerable or intimate than the film posits, and I don't think that the public space of the internet, for whatever its differences, is less open to violations than any other kind of space. Maybe then (and there are other possibilities here) the internet creates conditions under which family life (or any kind of life) does not need, first and foremost, to be defended. (how can both underlined statements be the case? )
As if invoked (I'm not sure it would have arrived here by more conscious means) by my recent post, a video comes home about violation. 2003's One Hour Photo-fox.
Robin Williams (Psi) is a SavMart photo lab technician. He has been for 20 years. He's middle aged, balding, but in case we don't immediately recognise how unattractive he is, he wears big square metal frame glasses which he's forever pushing up onto his nose with the middle finger push, and he carries a retro airline bag—which only makes the filmmakers appear anachronistic, because didn't they notice that those are cool now? Robin Williams is unattractive and so therefore (the film implies...no, nothing implied...the film states, bluntly and often) he is without family. This is the film's central point and principle thesis about photography, as stated in an early wistful voice over by Robin Williams. The first line spoken along the film's timeline (after a Sunset Blvd-esque opening sequence where we see Robin Williams post-denouement, arrested and of course, mug-shotted) is: "Family pictures depict smiling faces." But Robin Williams has no family. He does, however, work in a photo lab and there he processes the family pictures for a lot of families. This is the opportunity the film seizes on for its horror effects: his access to other people's photos.
To get this film made, the producers exploited two things: 1. the star power of Robin Williams and 2. the intimacy and vulnerability of family photographs, their genre potential for horror. But to make the exploitation work, the film has to invent a main character who works in a photo lab. ..Now, assuming that Hollywood has noticed photoblogs, flickrs and the like, they wouldn't need to make their antagonist a photo lab technician. He could be any old creep with an internet connection.
I don't think that photographs are any less vulnerable or intimate than the film posits, and I don't think that the public space of the internet, for whatever its differences, is less open to violations than any other kind of space. Maybe then (and there are other possibilities here) the internet creates conditions under which family life (or any kind of life) does not need, first and foremost, to be defended. (how can both underlined statements be the case? )
Looks Like the Start of Something 10Aug05
I like when newspapers notice new internet phenomena. I like how their reporting of the phenomena-as-news makes them look just a little bit too earnest, just a little bit uninformed (especially, I'm sure, to people who have been actively engaged in that phenomena).
...their awkwardness (and when do newspapers (&c.) ever look awkward? it's their business to look natural and right and authoritative in almost every situation) seems to me like a sign that here is something to notice, that something is changing..
first mention of photoblogs in the New York Times newspaper: "Blogs as Photo Albums," NY Times February 27, 2003
I like when newspapers notice new internet phenomena. I like how their reporting of the phenomena-as-news makes them look just a little bit too earnest, just a little bit uninformed (especially, I'm sure, to people who have been actively engaged in that phenomena).
...their awkwardness (and when do newspapers (&c.) ever look awkward? it's their business to look natural and right and authoritative in almost every situation) seems to me like a sign that here is something to notice, that something is changing..
first mention of photoblogs in the New York Times newspaper: "Blogs as Photo Albums," NY Times February 27, 2003
when, and this is the key aspect, when that photograph is networked (posted online)...
Dogs, Cats, Mappr, Hamster 1Sept05
Right now, there is very little about my argument this is specific to photography. It could, at this point, as easily be about blogs. And that's fine, insofar as I see much in common between online photography and blogs (I see them as part of the same political moment), and insofar as I've been writing about blogs as well. But it's a shame, insofar as I believe the public for photography functions differently than the public for blogs or vlogs or del.icio.us links or audioscrobbler or etc.
Photographic analysis, pictorial analysis, as I know it, seems to rely entirely on representational accounts, accounts which in the main look backwards, into the past of a photo, and those just aren't working for me at all. They seem to close their eyes to all possible uses, relegating them to that maligned realm of mere utility. Or trying to account for them all in that magnanimous gesture of identifying a diverse, unpredictable, powerful readership and multiple interpretations.
Dogs, Cats, Mappr, Hamster 1Sept05
Right now, there is very little about my argument this is specific to photography. It could, at this point, as easily be about blogs. And that's fine, insofar as I see much in common between online photography and blogs (I see them as part of the same political moment), and insofar as I've been writing about blogs as well. But it's a shame, insofar as I believe the public for photography functions differently than the public for blogs or vlogs or del.icio.us links or audioscrobbler or etc.
Photographic analysis, pictorial analysis, as I know it, seems to rely entirely on representational accounts, accounts which in the main look backwards, into the past of a photo, and those just aren't working for me at all. They seem to close their eyes to all possible uses, relegating them to that maligned realm of mere utility. Or trying to account for them all in that magnanimous gesture of identifying a diverse, unpredictable, powerful readership and multiple interpretations.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
js: colbert taped early tonite so cld speak at Time 100, Colbert is on the list at #1, above Nelson Mandela..
Google Blog Search: colbert time 100 :
Team Party Crash: 'Time' 100 Party (Gawker) ... and a lesson in making Stephen Colbert's wife feel bad.
We descend upon Stephen Colbert and introduce ourselves, noting that we did a poll on his speech at the White House Correspondents dinner and that our esteemed readers think he’s a great American patriot. He laughs, but has no idea that the Times had been following the issue. In fact, he doesn’t read any of his press: “I say, show me in two weeks!” Meanwhile, his wife informs us that she read a Gawker Stalker sighting of her husband seen with a blonde. But Missus Colbert, while lovely, is clearly not blonde. We feel very badly about this obvious betrayal and hope they see a counselor.
Stephen and the TIME 100 list (community.livejournal.com/colbert_report with pic) For those who have not picked up the TIME issue featuring Stephen Colbert on the "100 Most Influential" list, here’s a link to that...http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/
...a "Six Degrees of..." game...http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/time100/
...and pictures from the listers’ party (there’s one of Stephen). As much as I dislike Bill O’Reiley, I can understand how he would be considered "influential," but what the heck has Will Smith done lately to deserve mention? http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/sixdegrees_of_separation/
cmmt: Did anyone notice that Stephen also made The Joel 100?
From the Magazine The TIME 100 Meet the Other 100
These People Matter Most—to Me By JOEL STEIN From the May 8, 2006 issue of TIME magazine
ESSAY: The People Who Matter Most to Joel
I took a long, careful look at this year's Time 100, and I came to this conclusion: these people don't matter to my life. But no matter how many times I suggest we focus the Time 100 on the people who actually affect us—the buyer at Wal-Mart, the office IT person, the two guys who sing the Applebee's Shrimp Sensations song—no one listens to me.
I decided to steal from my favorite part of the Time 100, where someone like Tom Cruise writes about director J.J. Abrams. So I got people who mean an awful lot to me to write about other people who mean an awful lot to me. One of the four people with the distinction of making the Time 100 and the Joel 100™ was George W. Bush. & Colbert & who? & who?
Undoubtedly, blogs will be alight discussing whether certain people really deserved to make the Joel 100™, or if there was some logrolling going on. I deny such accusations. People spent a lot of time on the Joel 100™, and as with all such lists, our intentions were purely academic. This is a brave first stab at history. And if history means Dora at Yuca's Taco stand throws an extra taco in the bag, perhaps the cochinita pibil ones that history finds especially delicious, then history will be very grateful.
Google Blog Search: colbert time 100 :
Team Party Crash: 'Time' 100 Party (Gawker) ... and a lesson in making Stephen Colbert's wife feel bad.
We descend upon Stephen Colbert and introduce ourselves, noting that we did a poll on his speech at the White House Correspondents dinner and that our esteemed readers think he’s a great American patriot. He laughs, but has no idea that the Times had been following the issue. In fact, he doesn’t read any of his press: “I say, show me in two weeks!” Meanwhile, his wife informs us that she read a Gawker Stalker sighting of her husband seen with a blonde. But Missus Colbert, while lovely, is clearly not blonde. We feel very badly about this obvious betrayal and hope they see a counselor.
Stephen and the TIME 100 list (community.livejournal.com/colbert_report with pic) For those who have not picked up the TIME issue featuring Stephen Colbert on the "100 Most Influential" list, here’s a link to that...http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/
...a "Six Degrees of..." game...http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/time100/
...and pictures from the listers’ party (there’s one of Stephen). As much as I dislike Bill O’Reiley, I can understand how he would be considered "influential," but what the heck has Will Smith done lately to deserve mention? http://www.time.com/time/2006/time100/sixdegrees_of_separation/
cmmt: Did anyone notice that Stephen also made The Joel 100?
From the Magazine The TIME 100 Meet the Other 100
These People Matter Most—to Me By JOEL STEIN From the May 8, 2006 issue of TIME magazine
ESSAY: The People Who Matter Most to Joel
I took a long, careful look at this year's Time 100, and I came to this conclusion: these people don't matter to my life. But no matter how many times I suggest we focus the Time 100 on the people who actually affect us—the buyer at Wal-Mart, the office IT person, the two guys who sing the Applebee's Shrimp Sensations song—no one listens to me.
I decided to steal from my favorite part of the Time 100, where someone like Tom Cruise writes about director J.J. Abrams. So I got people who mean an awful lot to me to write about other people who mean an awful lot to me. One of the four people with the distinction of making the Time 100 and the Joel 100™ was George W. Bush. & Colbert & who? & who?
Undoubtedly, blogs will be alight discussing whether certain people really deserved to make the Joel 100™, or if there was some logrolling going on. I deny such accusations. People spent a lot of time on the Joel 100™, and as with all such lists, our intentions were purely academic. This is a brave first stab at history. And if history means Dora at Yuca's Taco stand throws an extra taco in the bag, perhaps the cochinita pibil ones that history finds especially delicious, then history will be very grateful.
SUDDEN Etymology: Middle English sodain, from Middle French, from Latin subitaneus, from subitus sudden, from past participle of subire to come up, from sub- up + ire to go -- more at SUB-, ISSUE1 a : happening or coming unexpectedly b : changing angle or character all at once 2 : marked by abruptness or haste 3 : made or brought about in a short time : PROMPT synonym see PRECIPITATE synonyms PRECIPITATE, HEADLONG, ABRUPT, IMPETUOUS, SUDDEN mean showing undue haste or unexpectedness.
~irks me when 'sudden' used simply as ~unexpected, esp when time is not an aspect -- when circumstance that are relatively static are decribed as 'all of sudden' bcs not what the speaker expected
~irks me when 'sudden' used simply as ~unexpected, esp when time is not an aspect -- when circumstance that are relatively static are decribed as 'all of sudden' bcs not what the speaker expected
Mehta Fiction -- village voice > books > by Ed Park
ggl [News results for opal mehta -today's top stories:11 hrs ago] - 1st to say 'mehta fiction'? -
good article,very good even. ah, "Ed Park is the editor of VLS."
Parts I and IV frame the discussion of Viswanathan's plagiary, telling the experience of a HS litmag editor (Ed Park) who published what turned out to be lifted writing.
II. In Kaavya Viswanathan's debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, the narrator, a well-to-do second-generation Indian American high school senior, cold-bloodedly schemes to get into Harvard—where not coincidentally Viswanathan is currently a sophomore. Opal's plan, triggered by a disastrous campus interview ("Tell me about your best friends" sends her into a panic) and developed by her Cantab-crazed parents, tenuously transforms the brainy, overextended grind into a va-va-voom member of the exclusive Haute Bitchez.
The fact that Opal misconstrues the Harvard dean's advice to "find some balance" as Unleash your inner conspicuous consumer and align yourself with the most hateful people in your class is just one of the novel's troubling spots. But the book, as we all know, has run into problems beyond issues of literary merit. (Indeed, it met with some mystifyingly positive notices, including a New York Times feature on Viswanathan's charmed life.) The Harvard Crimson made a convincing case that several passages in Opal strongly resemble Sloppy Firsts (2001) and Second Helpings (2003), two novels by Megan McCafferty. Subsequent discoveries turned Meg Cabot, Salman Rushdie, and others into instant precursors. And book packager Alloy Entertainment's involvement in Opal's genesis ratcheted up the Who wrote what? level. On April 27 Little, Brown recalled Opal, as if it were an SUV that tends to flip over when making sharp lefts. Its shelf life was under a month.
Forbidden, silenced, the novel now becomes readable, as gripping as a mystery. The bizarre tonal changes suddenly make sense: The whole thing isn't a cloying fantasy of having it all, but the nightmare of answered prayers. Paragraphs dripping with entitlement conceal not only purloined prose, but also clues that sound, chillingly, like a cry for help. ...
III. On his blog, Blink author Malcolm Gladwell essentially tells Kaavya cavilers to get over it already, that "calling this plagiarism is the equivalent of crying 'copy' in a crowded Kinkos [sic]." "It is worth reading, I think, the actual passages that Viswanathan is supposed to have taken from McCafferty," he writes, with plummy condescension. "Let's just say this isn't the first twenty lines of Paradise Lost." (My gut tells me Blink isn't, either.)
It is worth reading, I think, the actual books from which Viswanathan stole —worth paying attention to the work of the primary victim in this whole affair. The best place to start, if you are not currently a teenage girl, is the new Charmed Thirds (published last month), which follows heroine Jessica Darling through her years at Columbia. As with its two predecessors, Thirds consists largely of Jessica's diary entries, with occasional letters to her best friend, Hope, who is, perversely, offstage for all but a few paragraphs of the entire trilogy (her family moves to Tennessee before the start of Sloppy Firsts). It's a strange and affecting literary device, built of silence—she's like Jessica's superego or shrink.
Though ostensibly part of the same genre—that intersection of young-adult and chick lit—McCafferty's novels couldn't be more different from their infamous imitator. It's instantly clear that these books actually have a heartbeat. Jessica is smart, cynical, confused, and genuinely funny. (At times she recalls Bridget Jones, but McCafferty wisely avoids farce.)
Viswanathan obviously couldn't have cribbed from Charmed Thirds, but the book comments on the controversy anyway. In the most uncanny line, Jessica's former classmate, Hyacinth Wallace, says, "They should have a law against seventeen-year-olds publishing novels." (Viswanathan landed her book deal at 17.)
ggl [News results for opal mehta -today's top stories:11 hrs ago] - 1st to say 'mehta fiction'? -
good article,very good even. ah, "Ed Park is the editor of VLS."
Parts I and IV frame the discussion of Viswanathan's plagiary, telling the experience of a HS litmag editor (Ed Park) who published what turned out to be lifted writing.
II. In Kaavya Viswanathan's debut novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life, the narrator, a well-to-do second-generation Indian American high school senior, cold-bloodedly schemes to get into Harvard—where not coincidentally Viswanathan is currently a sophomore. Opal's plan, triggered by a disastrous campus interview ("Tell me about your best friends" sends her into a panic) and developed by her Cantab-crazed parents, tenuously transforms the brainy, overextended grind into a va-va-voom member of the exclusive Haute Bitchez.
The fact that Opal misconstrues the Harvard dean's advice to "find some balance" as Unleash your inner conspicuous consumer and align yourself with the most hateful people in your class is just one of the novel's troubling spots. But the book, as we all know, has run into problems beyond issues of literary merit. (Indeed, it met with some mystifyingly positive notices, including a New York Times feature on Viswanathan's charmed life.) The Harvard Crimson made a convincing case that several passages in Opal strongly resemble Sloppy Firsts (2001) and Second Helpings (2003), two novels by Megan McCafferty. Subsequent discoveries turned Meg Cabot, Salman Rushdie, and others into instant precursors. And book packager Alloy Entertainment's involvement in Opal's genesis ratcheted up the Who wrote what? level. On April 27 Little, Brown recalled Opal, as if it were an SUV that tends to flip over when making sharp lefts. Its shelf life was under a month.
Forbidden, silenced, the novel now becomes readable, as gripping as a mystery. The bizarre tonal changes suddenly make sense: The whole thing isn't a cloying fantasy of having it all, but the nightmare of answered prayers. Paragraphs dripping with entitlement conceal not only purloined prose, but also clues that sound, chillingly, like a cry for help. ...
III. On his blog, Blink author Malcolm Gladwell essentially tells Kaavya cavilers to get over it already, that "calling this plagiarism is the equivalent of crying 'copy' in a crowded Kinkos [sic]." "It is worth reading, I think, the actual passages that Viswanathan is supposed to have taken from McCafferty," he writes, with plummy condescension. "Let's just say this isn't the first twenty lines of Paradise Lost." (My gut tells me Blink isn't, either.)
It is worth reading, I think, the actual books from which Viswanathan stole —worth paying attention to the work of the primary victim in this whole affair. The best place to start, if you are not currently a teenage girl, is the new Charmed Thirds (published last month), which follows heroine Jessica Darling through her years at Columbia. As with its two predecessors, Thirds consists largely of Jessica's diary entries, with occasional letters to her best friend, Hope, who is, perversely, offstage for all but a few paragraphs of the entire trilogy (her family moves to Tennessee before the start of Sloppy Firsts). It's a strange and affecting literary device, built of silence—she's like Jessica's superego or shrink.
Though ostensibly part of the same genre—that intersection of young-adult and chick lit—McCafferty's novels couldn't be more different from their infamous imitator. It's instantly clear that these books actually have a heartbeat. Jessica is smart, cynical, confused, and genuinely funny. (At times she recalls Bridget Jones, but McCafferty wisely avoids farce.)
Viswanathan obviously couldn't have cribbed from Charmed Thirds, but the book comments on the controversy anyway. In the most uncanny line, Jessica's former classmate, Hyacinth Wallace, says, "They should have a law against seventeen-year-olds publishing novels." (Viswanathan landed her book deal at 17.)
ends.when - ggl Search (5/9 dlcs)
session ends when - standoff ends when - "Who Needs Ends When We’ve got Such Bitchin' Means"
session ends when - standoff ends when - "Who Needs Ends When We’ve got Such Bitchin' Means"
conversation.ends.when - ggl
eg: A conversation ends when both parties stop sending instant messages. //*Both*.
eg: A conversation ends when both parties stop sending instant messages. //*Both*.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Remember
A thumbnail sketch of the episode until the full recap goes live.
By Evany Season 2 Episode 23 Aired on 2006.05.21
Okay, so here's the whole two-hour season finale in a nutshell: Tom is desperately trying to find Lynette, but she's well hidden in a hotel with the four Ps. Then a P breaks his arm and Lynette is forced to call Tom. In the hospital, he finally gets to explain his side of the story: apparently, he had a one-night stand with a woman twelve years ago, back before he met Lynette, and now it turns out that he has an eleven-year-old daughter. Lynette gamely agrees to meet the daughter and her mother, but only the mother shows up for the visit. Over lunch, the mother -- who is crazy -- screechingly demands that Tom back-pay eleven years' worth of child support. Lynette and Tom dig deep and manage to come up with a check for $30k, which the woman promptly uses for a down payment on a house in Fairview, surprise!
Gabby begins to suspect that Carlos and Money are sleeping together, so she gets a doctor to check Money's oven and discovers that the once-immaculate virgin has turned whore. So then Gabby plants baby monitors all over the house and totally catches Carlos and Money in the act. Gabby makes the maid help her throw all Carlos's clothes out the window; then she screams at Carlos to go find somewhere else to live (even though, as Carlos is quick to point out, she'd given him permission to sleep around). When Money tries to leave, too, Gabby tells the maid that she isn't going anywhere -- not with Gabby's egg inside her, nope.
Zana visits CreePaul in jail, and CreePaul bitchily commands him to go get money from Noah to pay for a fancy lawyer to help find a way out of Felicia's crazy finger trap. Zana begins to suspect that CreePaul maybe did kill Mrs. Huber, but nonetheless, he pays Noah a visit. Noah is barely hanging in there, yet he has just enough strength to manipulate Zana (by calling him chicken, basically) into turning off Noah's breathing machine. Now a cold-blooded murderer himself, and also a zillionaire, Zana completely turns his back on CreePaul -- stops visiting him, stops taking his calls. He also petulantly orders that the pond at Noah's house be filled in, huh?
The newly independent Susan gets an RV so that she and Julie have a place to stay while their blackened house gets rebuilt. Mike is so impressed with Susan's hot display of a backbone that he races out and buys her a wedding ring. Unfortuconveniently, Karl spots Mike browsing in the jewelry shop. Karl, in a pique of calculated jealousy, races out and buys Susan and Julie a house. When the apparently-not-so-independent Susan accepts the house gift, Mike is so disappointed that he punches Karl. In the tussle, Mike's tooth gets chipped, and Susan sends him to Kyle McOrsonlan for some tooth-doctoring. McOrsonlan comments that Mike's mouth is full of prison dentistry, which gets Mike thinking that he recognizes McOrsonlan from somewhere, perhaps from prison? McOrsonlan hastily denies the connection. Meanwhile, Susan, who picked up on the fact that Mike was fixing to propose to her, decides to pop the question herself. She hearts-to-hearts with Karl, and -- using the "if you love someone, set them free" argument -- she gets him to sign the divorce papers. Then she invites Mike to a big romantic dinner. On his way to dinner, Mike stops to get flowers, and as he's crossing the street, a mysterious red car completely mows him down. And the driver? None other than the dark dentist McOrsonlan!
Caleb gets arrested, and he immediately confesses to the murder of Melanie Foster. Down at the station, the police show Betty the crime-scene photos of Melanie's body, which the murderer had covered with his jacket. Betty recognizes the jacket; it belonged to Matthew, not Caleb -- meaning Matthew is the murderer! Betty leaves a message for Bree, who's still off on her self-imposed mental-health retreat (where, incidentally, it turns out Kyle McOrsonlan comes thrice-weekly to visit a catatonic woman in a wheelchair), about how Matthew is maybe not the greatest escort for runaway Danielle. Bree immediately goes into mama-bear mode, but when she tries to leave her padded facilities to go save Danielle, she's captured and restrained. After some tricky maneuvering (she throws sand from a relaxing desktop rake garden directly in the face of her brain doctor), she makes a break for it. At home, she finds the cash-starved Danielle and Matthew breaking in to the Van de Kamps' family safe. When Bree tries to stop them, Matthew pulls a gun on her. But before Matthew can do anything, a SWAT team sharpshooter (called in by Betty) kills him dead through the window. Oh, but also? In flashback, we discover that while Matthew did kill Melanie, he only did so because she was threatening to tell the police that Caleb hit her with a stick (after she rejected his advances and hit him a bunch of times), meaning Matthew is a murderer, but not the creepy serial kind, so maybe his execution was unjust. right. though the writers didn't seem to suggest this did they? seems like we were supposed to be glad that Danielle saw his true colors when he held his gun pointed on her mom.. and anyway I haven't felt good about Danielle since she whined to Matthew about she didn't need a phone buddy, she needed a boyfriend. (again the writers don't seem to be suggesting, but we could see smarts in -from the flashback- a pattern of Matthew picking weirdly~crazily~needy~controlling girlfriends. ALSO? McOrsonlan shows up at Bree's house with a bouquet of flowers to congratulate her on her great escape, meaning that Bree's unlucky streak with creepy, damaged men is still in full effect. exactly. Have a great summer!
well done.
A thumbnail sketch of the episode until the full recap goes live.
By Evany Season 2 Episode 23 Aired on 2006.05.21
Okay, so here's the whole two-hour season finale in a nutshell: Tom is desperately trying to find Lynette, but she's well hidden in a hotel with the four Ps. Then a P breaks his arm and Lynette is forced to call Tom. In the hospital, he finally gets to explain his side of the story: apparently, he had a one-night stand with a woman twelve years ago, back before he met Lynette, and now it turns out that he has an eleven-year-old daughter. Lynette gamely agrees to meet the daughter and her mother, but only the mother shows up for the visit. Over lunch, the mother -- who is crazy -- screechingly demands that Tom back-pay eleven years' worth of child support. Lynette and Tom dig deep and manage to come up with a check for $30k, which the woman promptly uses for a down payment on a house in Fairview, surprise!
Gabby begins to suspect that Carlos and Money are sleeping together, so she gets a doctor to check Money's oven and discovers that the once-immaculate virgin has turned whore. So then Gabby plants baby monitors all over the house and totally catches Carlos and Money in the act. Gabby makes the maid help her throw all Carlos's clothes out the window; then she screams at Carlos to go find somewhere else to live (even though, as Carlos is quick to point out, she'd given him permission to sleep around). When Money tries to leave, too, Gabby tells the maid that she isn't going anywhere -- not with Gabby's egg inside her, nope.
Zana visits CreePaul in jail, and CreePaul bitchily commands him to go get money from Noah to pay for a fancy lawyer to help find a way out of Felicia's crazy finger trap. Zana begins to suspect that CreePaul maybe did kill Mrs. Huber, but nonetheless, he pays Noah a visit. Noah is barely hanging in there, yet he has just enough strength to manipulate Zana (by calling him chicken, basically) into turning off Noah's breathing machine. Now a cold-blooded murderer himself, and also a zillionaire, Zana completely turns his back on CreePaul -- stops visiting him, stops taking his calls. He also petulantly orders that the pond at Noah's house be filled in, huh?
The newly independent Susan gets an RV so that she and Julie have a place to stay while their blackened house gets rebuilt. Mike is so impressed with Susan's hot display of a backbone that he races out and buys her a wedding ring. Unfortuconveniently, Karl spots Mike browsing in the jewelry shop. Karl, in a pique of calculated jealousy, races out and buys Susan and Julie a house. When the apparently-not-so-independent Susan accepts the house gift, Mike is so disappointed that he punches Karl. In the tussle, Mike's tooth gets chipped, and Susan sends him to Kyle McOrsonlan for some tooth-doctoring. McOrsonlan comments that Mike's mouth is full of prison dentistry, which gets Mike thinking that he recognizes McOrsonlan from somewhere, perhaps from prison? McOrsonlan hastily denies the connection. Meanwhile, Susan, who picked up on the fact that Mike was fixing to propose to her, decides to pop the question herself. She hearts-to-hearts with Karl, and -- using the "if you love someone, set them free" argument -- she gets him to sign the divorce papers. Then she invites Mike to a big romantic dinner. On his way to dinner, Mike stops to get flowers, and as he's crossing the street, a mysterious red car completely mows him down. And the driver? None other than the dark dentist McOrsonlan!
Caleb gets arrested, and he immediately confesses to the murder of Melanie Foster. Down at the station, the police show Betty the crime-scene photos of Melanie's body, which the murderer had covered with his jacket. Betty recognizes the jacket; it belonged to Matthew, not Caleb -- meaning Matthew is the murderer! Betty leaves a message for Bree, who's still off on her self-imposed mental-health retreat (where, incidentally, it turns out Kyle McOrsonlan comes thrice-weekly to visit a catatonic woman in a wheelchair), about how Matthew is maybe not the greatest escort for runaway Danielle. Bree immediately goes into mama-bear mode, but when she tries to leave her padded facilities to go save Danielle, she's captured and restrained. After some tricky maneuvering (she throws sand from a relaxing desktop rake garden directly in the face of her brain doctor), she makes a break for it. At home, she finds the cash-starved Danielle and Matthew breaking in to the Van de Kamps' family safe. When Bree tries to stop them, Matthew pulls a gun on her. But before Matthew can do anything, a SWAT team sharpshooter (called in by Betty) kills him dead through the window. Oh, but also? In flashback, we discover that while Matthew did kill Melanie, he only did so because she was threatening to tell the police that Caleb hit her with a stick (after she rejected his advances and hit him a bunch of times), meaning Matthew is a murderer, but not the creepy serial kind, so maybe his execution was unjust. right. though the writers didn't seem to suggest this did they? seems like we were supposed to be glad that Danielle saw his true colors when he held his gun pointed on her mom.. and anyway I haven't felt good about Danielle since she whined to Matthew about she didn't need a phone buddy, she needed a boyfriend. (again the writers don't seem to be suggesting, but we could see smarts in -from the flashback- a pattern of Matthew picking weirdly~crazily~needy~controlling girlfriends. ALSO? McOrsonlan shows up at Bree's house with a bouquet of flowers to congratulate her on her great escape, meaning that Bree's unlucky streak with creepy, damaged men is still in full effect. exactly. Have a great summer!
well done.
Where yesterday's Doonesbury link was supposed to point (oops-sorry)
when "this calls for a little amer ingenuinity" wasn't in the cartoon, I wondered what I was missing
Monday, May 22, 2006
on Page 64:
"We push on, Esteban, as best we can. It isn't for long, you know. Time keeps going by. You'll be surprised at the way time passes." They started for Lima. When they reached the bridge of San Luis Rey, the Captain descended to the stream below in order to supervise the passage of some merchandise, but Esteban crossed by the bridge and fell with it.
"We push on, Esteban, as best we can. It isn't for long, you know. Time keeps going by. You'll be surprised at the way time passes." They started for Lima. When they reached the bridge of San Luis Rey, the Captain descended to the stream below in order to supervise the passage of some merchandise, but Esteban crossed by the bridge and fell with it.
on Page 300:
"Father couldn't have known why I started to cry, but he said all the right things.
"It won't be so bad," he reassured me. "Human beings are remarkable-at what we can learn to live with," Father told me. "If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have," Father said, "then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?"
first I searched 'bear' which of course had tons of results bcs of Susie the Bear and how we need a bear etc.
then 'human' did the trick (and I was going to add 'stronger'). Irving you really have some nicenesses in yr writing, I hold sth agnst you, what?, sth that seems commercial, over-ordinary?
Everyone at the Sacher Bar watched me crying and my father comforting me. I guess that's just one of the reasons it's the most beautiful bar in the world, in my opinion: it has the grace to make no one feel self-conscious about any unhappiness.
"Father couldn't have known why I started to cry, but he said all the right things.
"It won't be so bad," he reassured me. "Human beings are remarkable-at what we can learn to live with," Father told me. "If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have," Father said, "then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?"
first I searched 'bear' which of course had tons of results bcs of Susie the Bear and how we need a bear etc.
then 'human' did the trick (and I was going to add 'stronger'). Irving you really have some nicenesses in yr writing, I hold sth agnst you, what?, sth that seems commercial, over-ordinary?
Everyone at the Sacher Bar watched me crying and my father comforting me. I guess that's just one of the reasons it's the most beautiful bar in the world, in my opinion: it has the grace to make no one feel self-conscious about any unhappiness.
rw is on this mornin
Workingclass families have a lot more fun (preliminary flickr conclusion)
the wealthy ones seem like they're in continuous auditions
Now half my rss-feeds think it's Friday again!?? (starting to freak me out)
Superb JohnDean interview (Prog-shortish via sGuer)
29 indie covers of LoveWillTearUsApart (mp3s via l4Next)
Sweet anecdote of Joseph-Cornell artboxlove (UkG-Foer via wStair)
Lovely NYC-coyote in-the-Rye (NYer-Frazier)
Lovely NYC-coyote in-the-Rye (NYer-Frazier)
This calls for a little American ingenuity... (today's Doonesbury)
Sunday:
Sunday, May 21, 2006
![[pic]](http://images.artelino.com/images/items/12168a.jpg){kind=link}
The current situation is that people can display an image hosted on flickr (and thus unaltered in any capacity, nor republished in any capacity) on their own site, providing they provide a link back to flickr. That is the use that is explicitly encouraged by the existing terms and conditions. Nothing more. It doesn't allow people to alter your images, to sell your images or even print them and give them away for free. The only thing it allows is to show a photo on an external site, as long as it's still hosted on flickr. ah that's why will show [deleted] on blog. also on dlcs - those thumbnails are being hosted still on flickr.
Stewart {staff} : Remember that there are hundreds of photo sharing sites that don't allow you to "hotlink" photos they are hosting offsite (because it is really expensive in bandwidth I thought so and in abuse mitigation huh). It was worth pointing this out in the TOS. ( permalink - near end thread 13063)
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sbpoet I think I may have realized (I know, obvious to everyone else) why I got confused about the "blog this" button -- that button is only available to logged-in Flickr members, isn't it? Must be, since you have to set up your blogs in the service. So, if you have a problem with the use a Flickr member has made of your photo, you have the Flickr help system to hand. Staff may, or may not, be able to or choose to help you.
Eric {staff] says: Here's the thing: Flickr is about photo sharing, and blogging photos is a major part of that. If you don't want photos blogged, again, make them private.We would like to enable some sort of reporting so people can find out when others blog their photos, but we do not plan to remove the blog this button. Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
George {staff} says: >"take the photo without the owners permission" < This appears to be the crux of the issue. The point that it's really important to understand is this: If you place a photo on an internet site, anyone who can view the photo can take it without your permission. Flickr's privacy level allows to to restrict availability of some photos to people you know. This is good.Some indication [when] someone has blogged your photo via the Blog This method is in the pipeline. That way you can keep an eye on who is taking your photos without your permission;) Of course, anyone who blogged a photo from Flickr without using the Blog This method would need to be tracked down using other means.
quas says:I do like the idea of getting a Flickrmail whenever someone blogs a photo. Since Flickr has the URL of every blog, it could place a link to the blog in the notification message. Sounds good to me.
-maybe just a little notification under "recent activity", the same as you get when someone faves an image?
http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/7398 (Dear Flickr)
Stewart {staff} : Remember that there are hundreds of photo sharing sites that don't allow you to "hotlink" photos they are hosting offsite (because it is really expensive in bandwidth I thought so and in abuse mitigation huh). It was worth pointing this out in the TOS. ( permalink - near end thread 13063)
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sbpoet I think I may have realized (I know, obvious to everyone else) why I got confused about the "blog this" button -- that button is only available to logged-in Flickr members, isn't it? Must be, since you have to set up your blogs in the service. So, if you have a problem with the use a Flickr member has made of your photo, you have the Flickr help system to hand. Staff may, or may not, be able to or choose to help you.
Eric {staff] says: Here's the thing: Flickr is about photo sharing, and blogging photos is a major part of that. If you don't want photos blogged, again, make them private.We would like to enable some sort of reporting so people can find out when others blog their photos, but we do not plan to remove the blog this button. Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
George {staff} says: >"take the photo without the owners permission" < This appears to be the crux of the issue. The point that it's really important to understand is this: If you place a photo on an internet site, anyone who can view the photo can take it without your permission. Flickr's privacy level allows to to restrict availability of some photos to people you know. This is good.Some indication [when] someone has blogged your photo via the Blog This method is in the pipeline. That way you can keep an eye on who is taking your photos without your permission;) Of course, anyone who blogged a photo from Flickr without using the Blog This method would need to be tracked down using other means.
quas says:I do like the idea of getting a Flickrmail whenever someone blogs a photo. Since Flickr has the URL of every blog, it could place a link to the blog in the notification message. Sounds good to me.
-maybe just a little notification under "recent activity", the same as you get when someone faves an image?
http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/7398 (Dear Flickr)
Saturday, May 20, 2006
fl ckr bl gg ing
still to look thru - 2 longer threads -
*Dear Flickr Mgmnt, Blog This is B***S***!!!! - http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/7398 100+ cmmts
ArTaide - ( permalink ) The issue is quite similar and there was a long drawn out discussion [forums/help/13063 ] on the private/public aspects and what copyrights entails. I summarized ... as I went along. The last summary is here: flickr.com/forums/help/13063/66758/:
What came to the fore in my sense-making process was the legal status of pictures on flickr, which happen to be by default under the all-rights-reserved-copyright © license. Choices are made available to flickr users to licence [instead] under creative commons (CC) that provides more liberty in how others can ‘play’ with [yr] images. But as it stands, by default we can say that most images here continue to be under this © licence and therefore can be viewed but not creatively used (with few exceptions). This also had the effect of revealing a contradiction between certain unbounded API uses and the law governing © images available in public (internet).
and
*NO MORE 'BLOG THIS' - http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/8610
milonguero says: All, Interesting related discussion on www.digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com.
PlanetStar says: It's so funny, that even this discussion can be shared or blogged. mmmhm.
_______________
and so I want to see flickr announcement re making it an option to disable the blog this button. where's that?
(these threads all about a year ago, a bit less. last summer ~
haven't found an anouncement ('we have decided...' with reasons why); I just find this in flickr help -faq:
------------------I'd rather people didn't blog my photos. How can I prevent that?
There's a setting in Your Account where you can choose who sees the "Blog This" button when looking at your photos.
That preference simply makes it inconvenient for people to blog your photos, and it's important to remember that if people see your photo, they can copy it and/or blog it anyway. That's where you can use privacy settings, if you'd rather this didn't happen. Hiding your photos from public view is really the best way. Top
hmmnow here we go. in Dear Flickr thread above, pointed twd the 13063 thread:
Cyron says: They're already planning on changing it, much to my annoyance. Check out the latter parts of this thread flickr.com/forums/help/13063/
in that thread Cyron objects to changes and
Stewart {staff} replies: From what I can tell, the difference boils down to:
* You think that people who don't want their photos blogged or showing up in API-based apps/search engines should have to make their private.
* I think they should be able to leave them public, and have those preferences expressed programmatically.
*Dear Flickr Mgmnt, Blog This is B***S***!!!! - http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/7398 100+ cmmts
ArTaide - ( permalink ) The issue is quite similar and there was a long drawn out discussion [forums/help/13063 ] on the private/public aspects and what copyrights entails. I summarized ... as I went along. The last summary is here: flickr.com/forums/help/13063/66758/:
What came to the fore in my sense-making process was the legal status of pictures on flickr, which happen to be by default under the all-rights-reserved-copyright © license. Choices are made available to flickr users to licence [instead] under creative commons (CC) that provides more liberty in how others can ‘play’ with [yr] images. But as it stands, by default we can say that most images here continue to be under this © licence and therefore can be viewed but not creatively used (with few exceptions). This also had the effect of revealing a contradiction between certain unbounded API uses and the law governing © images available in public (internet).
and
*NO MORE 'BLOG THIS' - http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/8610
milonguero says: All, Interesting related discussion on www.digitalphotography.weblogsinc.com.
PlanetStar says: It's so funny, that even this discussion can be shared or blogged. mmmhm.
_______________
and so I want to see flickr announcement re making it an option to disable the blog this button. where's that?
(these threads all about a year ago, a bit less. last summer ~
haven't found an anouncement ('we have decided...' with reasons why); I just find this in flickr help -faq:
------------------I'd rather people didn't blog my photos. How can I prevent that?
There's a setting in Your Account where you can choose who sees the "Blog This" button when looking at your photos.
That preference simply makes it inconvenient for people to blog your photos, and it's important to remember that if people see your photo, they can copy it and/or blog it anyway. That's where you can use privacy settings, if you'd rather this didn't happen. Hiding your photos from public view is really the best way. Top
hmmnow here we go. in Dear Flickr thread above, pointed twd the 13063 thread:
Cyron says: They're already planning on changing it, much to my annoyance. Check out the latter parts of this thread flickr.com/forums/help/13063/
in that thread Cyron objects to changes and
Stewart {staff} replies: From what I can tell, the difference boils down to:
* You think that people who don't want their photos blogged or showing up in API-based apps/search engines should have to make their private.
* I think they should be able to leave them public, and have those preferences expressed programmatically.
Could I "blog this" any photo of any authors on my blog whitout explicite permission?
(O)eil (O)uvert says:
in short : yes you can.
you could even if people have disabled the "blog this" function.
you could even if people have disabled the "all sizes" function. ?this as implicit encrgmt downloadg?
when you post a photo to flickr, anyone can blog it.
Some people don't mind being blogged, others are angry, and others are happy.
--Where things get fuzzy is at the line between "good manners" and "legal."--
There is no fuzzy line : blogging a picture is considered as "fair use" (in USA, where eg flickr and some blog systems are hosted), so you do not need to ask for permission at all.
(O)eil (O)uvert says:
in short : yes you can.
you could even if people have disabled the "blog this" function.
you could even if people have disabled the "all sizes" function. ?this as implicit encrgmt downloadg?
when you post a photo to flickr, anyone can blog it.
Some people don't mind being blogged, others are angry, and others are happy.
--Where things get fuzzy is at the line between "good manners" and "legal."--
There is no fuzzy line : blogging a picture is considered as "fair use" (in USA, where eg flickr and some blog systems are hosted), so you do not need to ask for permission at all.
Regardless everybody....USING A COPYRIGHTED WORK ON YOUR NON-COMMERCIAL WEBSITE IS NOT VIOLATION OF THE COPYRIGHT AS LONG AS PROPER CREDIT HAS BEEN GIVEN! It is the same thing as quoting someone's book in your essay for school...the book is the intellectual work of an individual, and therefore falls under the exact same copyright laws you are dealing with here.Quit being copyright Nazi's (like the RIAA) and allow people to use your images with credit. If you don't want to share, why are you on flickr? Posted 11 months ago. permalink -the photogeek
familiar -- ah "somewhere in texas" -dog under beaming sky- is by photo-geek a different user.
hmm. ok for 'review' purposes but: if the thumbnail is presented on its own with only a linkback and no commentary on the photo itself .. or if the thumbnail is purely illustrative {illustrating another creative work like a poem} the fair use argument gets watered down fairly quickly.flickr provides the option for users to place a transparent gif over top of their photos, which hinders fair use of the photo .. they should also provide the option to remove 'blog this' ..to likewise hinder the fair use of the photo.a lot of people on this site don't like fair use, and flickr should be catering to these users. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -striatic
the problem with those offering their images up to be used by anyone for any purpose it that they seem to expect everyone to do the same.I just want the CHOICE to say "no, I'd rather not have this image be republished in an uncontrolled way".Its not a black or white arguement, some will wish to share all their photos will anyone for any purpose, some won't want to share at all (in which case they shouldn't upload), and I think most people will land somewhere in between. I fully understand that once the digital data is uploaded to the internet, regardless of what licence or law is applied, its practically impossible to stop someone inappropriately republishing your photos, but why make it easy?This is after all a site in development, why not see if we can forge new understandings of copyright in the digital age instead of having the narrow minded idea that must either be criminal to share (RIAA style), or a total free-for-all where anything online is common property. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -danpat reasonable
+ later post- Some interesting reading:
10 myths about copyright - Fair Use of Copyrighted Works - Australian Copyright Act
The whole argument against the RIAA and MPAA is that they want to have a very tight grip on control of the works. Even that is within a commercial environment. The whole point of flickr is its a photo community you upload some photos I upload some photos and we can discuss/share/blog about everyone’s photos no one should be losing any money from people bloging about those photos. The only fear I can see is if someone posts a photo to a site that is inappropriate and the original author of the photo (as its linked back to flickr) then gets associated with the site when they had nothing to do with it in the first place. BUT, you can't stop that if you put anything in digital format you have to accept that is going to happen and live with it. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -blogee sounds good
You all realize that removing the BlogThis button will not stop people from blogging the photo, right?I think it could actually encourage blogging without the link yes, as people might be less inclined to figure out how to link it manually, when they can just copy/paste the URL into an IMG tag and be done with it.With BlogThis, it automatically sets up the link, so people don't have to worry about it. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -Collin Grady
[being able to disable the 'blog this' button] makes the people blogging the picture know that they are acting against the artist's wishes - and in my opinion that tells quite a lot about the blogger in question..And the bloggers that have respect towards the artist will not blog a picture that is not marked for free blogging. I dare to hope that there still are people like that :) Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink ) -m0nni today came across this situatn w photos of 'willpower' - no transparent gif in front of them, interestingly, so easy to save the pic so I considered but then did not post it ---- I guess seems good to take the absence of the 'blog this' as a request not to post pic, and respect that. ok.
I don't think that will have much of an impact at all.I think that people would assume that if someone shows their work publically on an internet website, that they don't mind people seeing it. There aren't that many people that would see much of a difference with seeing it on Flickr, or seeing it on their blog.At least if they use the "blog this" button, you can rely on attribution and a way for people to get back to your streams and see your pictures how YOU want them seen as well. Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink ) -Brock
http://www.flickr.com/forums/ideas/4650/
familiar -- ah "somewhere in texas" -dog under beaming sky- is by photo-geek a different user.
hmm. ok for 'review' purposes but: if the thumbnail is presented on its own with only a linkback and no commentary on the photo itself .. or if the thumbnail is purely illustrative {illustrating another creative work like a poem} the fair use argument gets watered down fairly quickly.flickr provides the option for users to place a transparent gif over top of their photos, which hinders fair use of the photo .. they should also provide the option to remove 'blog this' ..to likewise hinder the fair use of the photo.a lot of people on this site don't like fair use, and flickr should be catering to these users. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -striatic
the problem with those offering their images up to be used by anyone for any purpose it that they seem to expect everyone to do the same.I just want the CHOICE to say "no, I'd rather not have this image be republished in an uncontrolled way".Its not a black or white arguement, some will wish to share all their photos will anyone for any purpose, some won't want to share at all (in which case they shouldn't upload), and I think most people will land somewhere in between. I fully understand that once the digital data is uploaded to the internet, regardless of what licence or law is applied, its practically impossible to stop someone inappropriately republishing your photos, but why make it easy?This is after all a site in development, why not see if we can forge new understandings of copyright in the digital age instead of having the narrow minded idea that must either be criminal to share (RIAA style), or a total free-for-all where anything online is common property. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -danpat reasonable
+ later post- Some interesting reading:
10 myths about copyright - Fair Use of Copyrighted Works - Australian Copyright Act
The whole argument against the RIAA and MPAA is that they want to have a very tight grip on control of the works. Even that is within a commercial environment. The whole point of flickr is its a photo community you upload some photos I upload some photos and we can discuss/share/blog about everyone’s photos no one should be losing any money from people bloging about those photos. The only fear I can see is if someone posts a photo to a site that is inappropriate and the original author of the photo (as its linked back to flickr) then gets associated with the site when they had nothing to do with it in the first place. BUT, you can't stop that if you put anything in digital format you have to accept that is going to happen and live with it. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -blogee sounds good
You all realize that removing the BlogThis button will not stop people from blogging the photo, right?I think it could actually encourage blogging without the link yes, as people might be less inclined to figure out how to link it manually, when they can just copy/paste the URL into an IMG tag and be done with it.With BlogThis, it automatically sets up the link, so people don't have to worry about it. Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink ) -Collin Grady
[being able to disable the 'blog this' button] makes the people blogging the picture know that they are acting against the artist's wishes - and in my opinion that tells quite a lot about the blogger in question..And the bloggers that have respect towards the artist will not blog a picture that is not marked for free blogging. I dare to hope that there still are people like that :) Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink ) -m0nni today came across this situatn w photos of 'willpower' - no transparent gif in front of them, interestingly, so easy to save the pic so I considered but then did not post it ---- I guess seems good to take the absence of the 'blog this' as a request not to post pic, and respect that. ok.
I don't think that will have much of an impact at all.I think that people would assume that if someone shows their work publically on an internet website, that they don't mind people seeing it. There aren't that many people that would see much of a difference with seeing it on Flickr, or seeing it on their blog.At least if they use the "blog this" button, you can rely on attribution and a way for people to get back to your streams and see your pictures how YOU want them seen as well. Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink ) -Brock
http://www.flickr.com/forums/ideas/4650/
So instead of being flattered that other people would find your images interesting enough to tell other people 'here, look at this image, it's nice!', you get mad? -Marco Wessel
-- What's feels strange to me is that so many people think it is obvious that the photos will be used in blogs even though the photographer says that she/he doesn't want it. So strange. -m0nni ---
Flickr was built around the idea of a Photo Sharing community and "blog this" is a natural extension of that. -heather *staff* yes I think so.
I just took a screen shot of my screen and it is now on my blog.I can download most images from the web, and for any facility blocking downloading, I can screenshot anything on the screen.So really there is no way to stop anyone to post anything visible on the screen to any blog...And really just like the RIAA and MPAA, as people constantly try to prevent "fair trade, usage of copyrighted material" only bothers honest people engaged in the rich discussion that expands/creates culture and obstructs the breath of out of creativity and art. ..Maybe one feature Flickr could add is a watermarking facility if this is not already present. ..One last thing, is there a way for an author/photographer to know who has used their image in a blog? -Seabasstin
I don't like the idea about watermarks but it would be nice to be noted when a picture is used. It would be an interesting way to "find" new blogs and people. ah that's the spirit. And if there's some discussion about the photo in the blog that would make it even more interesting to see :) m0nni
sbpoet says: who's blogged my photos, eh? [striatic instructs use of blogpulse.com/search?start_date=&end_date=&query=... ]
http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/10502/
-- What's feels strange to me is that so many people think it is obvious that the photos will be used in blogs even though the photographer says that she/he doesn't want it. So strange. -m0nni ---
Flickr was built around the idea of a Photo Sharing community and "blog this" is a natural extension of that. -heather *staff* yes I think so.
I just took a screen shot of my screen and it is now on my blog.I can download most images from the web, and for any facility blocking downloading, I can screenshot anything on the screen.So really there is no way to stop anyone to post anything visible on the screen to any blog...And really just like the RIAA and MPAA, as people constantly try to prevent "fair trade, usage of copyrighted material" only bothers honest people engaged in the rich discussion that expands/creates culture and obstructs the breath of out of creativity and art. ..Maybe one feature Flickr could add is a watermarking facility if this is not already present. ..One last thing, is there a way for an author/photographer to know who has used their image in a blog? -Seabasstin
I don't like the idea about watermarks but it would be nice to be noted when a picture is used. It would be an interesting way to "find" new blogs and people. ah that's the spirit. And if there's some discussion about the photo in the blog that would make it even more interesting to see :) m0nni
sbpoet says: who's blogged my photos, eh? [striatic instructs use of blogpulse.com/search?start_date=&end_date=&query=... ]
http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/10502/
sage.mozdev.org/install --- Sage 1.3.6: click here to install
After installation, there are four ways to access Sage in Firefox:
Menu selection, Tools -> Sage
Menu selection, View -> Sidebar -> Sage
Keyboard shortcut, Alt-S
Toolbar button, View -> Toolbars -> Customize, drag the Sage icon to the toolbar. ok! -done, and clicking on the Sage leaf does the same (opens Sage in sidebar) as all the above : Alt-S, viewing sidebar, or selecting Sage from tools menu. pleasing.
New in Sage 1.3: Live Bookmarks IntegrationSage now interprets Live Bookmarks just as it does regular bookmarks, allowing the user to subscribe to feeds using the auto-discovery mechanism ['auto discovery' bcs displays orange feed indicator in address bar when a feed is available -?] in Firefox. Live Bookmarks may be added to your Sage Feeds folder using Firefox's orange feed indicator icon, making them available for reading in the Sage sidebar. This gives users a quick and easy subscription method, while Sage's built-in 'Discover Feeds' function provides a more thorough scan. oh nice - when click on orange feed indicator and bookmark box comes up, can select (instead of bookmarks toolbar folder) Sage Feeds. sweet & easy.
Feed Item Toolbar and Mark Read/UnreadSage now supports marking feed items as read or unread. To do this you can either use the feed item context menu or the Feed Item List Toolbar. The following keyboard shortcuts are available (As usual you can hold down shift or ctrl when clicking the feed item to open it a new window or tab):
M ---Toggles the read state of the selected feed item
Ctrl+Shift+C ---Marks all feed items as read.
Enter ---Open selected feed item in current tab/window
Shift+Enter ---Open selected feed item in a new window
Ctrl+Enter ---Open selected feed item in a new tab
After installation, there are four ways to access Sage in Firefox:
Menu selection, Tools -> Sage
Menu selection, View -> Sidebar -> Sage
Keyboard shortcut, Alt-S
Toolbar button, View -> Toolbars -> Customize, drag the Sage icon to the toolbar. ok! -done, and clicking on the Sage leaf does the same (opens Sage in sidebar) as all the above : Alt-S, viewing sidebar, or selecting Sage from tools menu. pleasing.
New in Sage 1.3: Live Bookmarks IntegrationSage now interprets Live Bookmarks just as it does regular bookmarks, allowing the user to subscribe to feeds using the auto-discovery mechanism ['auto discovery' bcs displays orange feed indicator in address bar when a feed is available -?] in Firefox. Live Bookmarks may be added to your Sage Feeds folder using Firefox's orange feed indicator icon, making them available for reading in the Sage sidebar. This gives users a quick and easy subscription method, while Sage's built-in 'Discover Feeds' function provides a more thorough scan. oh nice - when click on orange feed indicator and bookmark box comes up, can select (instead of bookmarks toolbar folder) Sage Feeds. sweet & easy.
Feed Item Toolbar and Mark Read/UnreadSage now supports marking feed items as read or unread. To do this you can either use the feed item context menu or the Feed Item List Toolbar. The following keyboard shortcuts are available (As usual you can hold down shift or ctrl when clicking the feed item to open it a new window or tab):
M ---Toggles the read state of the selected feed item
Ctrl+Shift+C ---Marks all feed items as read.
Enter ---Open selected feed item in current tab/window
Shift+Enter ---Open selected feed item in a new window
Ctrl+Enter ---Open selected feed item in a new tab
Friday, May 19, 2006
If I wrote you __jp
"if I wrote you- you would know me- you would not write me again"
("I'm so happy- had to tell you- you will not write me again.")
Road buddy __miles
"I thought that we'd be joking, having long talks while late night driving
I thought we'd show that friendship could be stronger than the crossroads double but I"
("it felt like an adventure- isn't that what you would call it?")
you go the vending machines, I wanna watch these kids with their mother
sipping on their juiceboxs and smiling at each other
how 'bout it?
age 19, ~1996.
"I finally think I come from someplace."
"if I wrote you- you would know me- you would not write me again"
("I'm so happy- had to tell you- you will not write me again.")
Road buddy __miles
"I thought that we'd be joking, having long talks while late night driving
I thought we'd show that friendship could be stronger than the crossroads double but I"
("it felt like an adventure- isn't that what you would call it?")
you go the vending machines, I wanna watch these kids with their mother
sipping on their juiceboxs and smiling at each other
how 'bout it?
age 19, ~1996.
"I finally think I come from someplace."
you know, I think, you remember
every part of me
and the water starts to boil
and if I had a camera - showing all the light we give and showing where the light extends
I'd give it to my friend
--
I have a friend in a bright & distant town
she's found a common balance
where you do your work and you do your love
and they pay you and praise your many talents
well I'm passing thru and we know we won't sleep
she laughs, puts up the tea
she says, you know, I think,
you remember every part of me
__
sometimes I see myself fine
sometimes I need a witness
and I act like I have faith and like that faith never ends
but I really just have friends
every part of me
and the water starts to boil
and if I had a camera - showing all the light we give and showing where the light extends
I'd give it to my friend
--
I have a friend in a bright & distant town
she's found a common balance
where you do your work and you do your love
and they pay you and praise your many talents
well I'm passing thru and we know we won't sleep
she laughs, puts up the tea
she says, you know, I think,
you remember every part of me
__
sometimes I see myself fine
sometimes I need a witness
and I act like I have faith and like that faith never ends
but I really just have friends
he's a quiet man that's all she says
and he's a thoughtful man
it's just he likes to keep his thoughts up in his head
and we finally meet
and she tries to draw him out a bit
she says he's writing something, why don't you talk about it?
and he doesn't make a sound
he's just staring at his coffee
and I know there's all this beauty and this greatness she'll defend
but I think it's in my friend.
and he's a thoughtful man
it's just he likes to keep his thoughts up in his head
and we finally meet
and she tries to draw him out a bit
she says he's writing something, why don't you talk about it?
and he doesn't make a sound
he's just staring at his coffee
and I know there's all this beauty and this greatness she'll defend
but I think it's in my friend.
as cool
you say you hope I'm not threatened
oh 0h-oh-oh I'm not that petty
as cool as I am I thought you'd know this already
you play the artist
saying is it how she moves or how she looks
and as long as she's got noise
she is fine
but I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended
try to make me feel like a little less
I thought you knew how to be scared
so I'm leaving
you can find out how much better things can get
and if it helps
I'd say I feel a little worse than I did when me met
and - then - I go outside - to join the others
I am the others
oh 0h-oh-oh and that's not easy
I don't know what you saw
I want somebody who sees me
oh 0h-oh-oh I'm not that petty
as cool as I am I thought you'd know this already
you play the artist
saying is it how she moves or how she looks
and as long as she's got noise
she is fine
but I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended
try to make me feel like a little less
I thought you knew how to be scared
so I'm leaving
you can find out how much better things can get
and if it helps
I'd say I feel a little worse than I did when me met
and - then - I go outside - to join the others
I am the others
oh 0h-oh-oh and that's not easy
I don't know what you saw
I want somebody who sees me
Dar Williams tonite (just noticed in reader)
thought of going since just listend to on walk today, enjoyed. could dance.
(but it's ok sold out, remember birchmere w miles, dar in person not great to me, did not love her)
Schuba's Tavern
Tavern with a diverse line-up of live music seven nights a week. Honky-Tonk, Indie Rock, Jazz, Pop...www.schubas.com Calendar - Music - Contact - Bar
Friday, 5/19/2006 - 7:30 PM - $30.00 93 XRT welcomes...An Evening With... Dar Williams The new album from Dar Williams, "My Better Self," is out now on Razor & Tie. The new album is both political and personal, combining songs of love and hate with tales that illustrate some of the many social and environmental issues that Dar holds dear to her heart. Recorded in Woodstock, NY, "My Better Self" features several guests, including Soulive, Ani DiFranco, Marshall Crenshaw and Patty Larkin. SOLD OUT! ...patty larkin ~ ... (just soundslike: griffin?) ...
thought of going since just listend to on walk today, enjoyed. could dance.
(but it's ok sold out, remember birchmere w miles, dar in person not great to me, did not love her)
Schuba's Tavern
Tavern with a diverse line-up of live music seven nights a week. Honky-Tonk, Indie Rock, Jazz, Pop...www.schubas.com Calendar - Music - Contact - Bar
Friday, 5/19/2006 - 7:30 PM - $30.00 93 XRT welcomes...An Evening With... Dar Williams The new album from Dar Williams, "My Better Self," is out now on Razor & Tie. The new album is both political and personal, combining songs of love and hate with tales that illustrate some of the many social and environmental issues that Dar holds dear to her heart. Recorded in Woodstock, NY, "My Better Self" features several guests, including Soulive, Ani DiFranco, Marshall Crenshaw and Patty Larkin. SOLD OUT! ...patty larkin ~ ... (just soundslike: griffin?) ...
A History of Violence (imdb)
A Season In Hell, 25 November 2005 : arichmondfwc from United States
Yes, it made me think that if Jean Arthur Rimbaud had been a man of our times he could have been the one behind this film. Optimism through pessimism. The light of darkness. A contradiction that makes sense, that rings true. A mesmerizing film with a spectacular Viggo Mortensen. The truth is there for us to see it, the truth is going to be told but the truth has the flavor of a fantasy. It is the adopted life the invented one that is real. We're invited into this simple but startling reality guided by the masterful hand of David Cronenberg. The casting is a stroke of genius. Viggo Mortensen has the presence of an icon and yet he can disappear be invisible in the most magnetic way. Maria Bello, for me, a stunning surprise. I didn't know (I still don't) her work, I only remembered her name because she has an unforgettable name. But here she proves she's an actress of enormous emotional/dramatic resources. 2005 is not quite over yet but I bet "A History of Violence" will be among the two or three best films I've seen all year
A Season In Hell, 25 November 2005 : arichmondfwc from United States
Yes, it made me think that if Jean Arthur Rimbaud had been a man of our times he could have been the one behind this film. Optimism through pessimism. The light of darkness. A contradiction that makes sense, that rings true. A mesmerizing film with a spectacular Viggo Mortensen. The truth is there for us to see it, the truth is going to be told but the truth has the flavor of a fantasy. It is the adopted life the invented one that is real. We're invited into this simple but startling reality guided by the masterful hand of David Cronenberg. The casting is a stroke of genius. Viggo Mortensen has the presence of an icon and yet he can disappear be invisible in the most magnetic way. Maria Bello, for me, a stunning surprise. I didn't know (I still don't) her work, I only remembered her name because she has an unforgettable name. But here she proves she's an actress of enormous emotional/dramatic resources. 2005 is not quite over yet but I bet "A History of Violence" will be among the two or three best films I've seen all year
Alabasterkörper
cmmt on untitled photo 43b9d849a8294 Originally uploaded by vampirejeshika.
rwwl [Tagscouple, female, nude, samesex]
cmmt on untitled photo 43b9d849a8294 Originally uploaded by vampirejeshika.
rwwl [Tagscouple, female, nude, samesex]
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Final episode madness! Jade, Joanie, and Danielle each get a different script for the penultimate Cover Girl commercial challenge, and have varying success memorizing their mascara-loving lines. Joanie nails it pretty quickly, Danielle continues to have problems with her southern accent, and Jade is a straight fool, per usual. The girls also shoot Cover Girl print ads, all of which look pretty gorgeous. Joanie breezes through to the final two, while Danielle's accent and Jade's attitude land them on the brink of elimination. In the end, Jade is finally sent home, and that howling wind you heard outside of your window was millions of people simultaneously breathing a sigh of relief. Or, breathily laughing at the outfit that Tyra wore at Panel. Seriously, you guys. Jade continues to be Jade right to the end, as she snaps her way back to what, for the love of God, I hope can only be classified as obscurity. Joanie and Danielle -- who might be my favorite pair of finalists ever -- go head to head in the final challenge, which involves walking on a pretty amazing, if relentlessly long, runway. When they go before Panel again, Danielle looks perfectly gorgeous and Joanie looks like she bought a replica of Cher's "Half-Breed" costume on Ebay, which was my first clue that Danielle really might have it in the bag. She does, she wins, and she is so sweet about it that I actually got a tiny tear in my eye. Joanie takes her runner-up status with total grace and class, Danielle promises to get a voice coach, and with that, another season comes to an end, bitches.
The Girl Who Walked Through The Ancient City
By Potes Season 6 Episode 11 Aired on 2006.05.17 (recaplet, will disappear..)
The Girl Who Walked Through The Ancient City
By Potes Season 6 Episode 11 Aired on 2006.05.17 (recaplet, will disappear..)
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
loong runway, covered in flowers they have to walk in, and the audience is sitting right there along it!
at judging -- yes, Danielle is the right choice.
god, both these girls are gorgeous sweethearts. nothing to not like! it's such a nice change from the other antm finales I've seen...
Daniele, you are the accident prone girl. "I am that girl, yup."
I love all their pictures. I love them Danielle in green shirt, Joanie in blue t-shirt.
and the two of them dancing "we're the final two-oo"
at judging -- yes, Danielle is the right choice.
god, both these girls are gorgeous sweethearts. nothing to not like! it's such a nice change from the other antm finales I've seen...
Daniele, you are the accident prone girl. "I am that girl, yup."
I love all their pictures. I love them Danielle in green shirt, Joanie in blue t-shirt.
and the two of them dancing "we're the final two-oo"
Danielle - Congratulations.
YES! yay. and Jade even leaves saying "they made a mistake." her mind - a rock. but I gotta give her that the poem of parting words was not bad "though I did bruised / living in a house / trying to become a popular muse.
yay that the final two are these lovely likeable people. and friends! the most real (apparently) friendship I've seen on this show. lovely for them to be the final two. and danielle's tears, oh baby.
you're about to win, you know. joanie has been called first lots, including for final two. and I think that this show is indeed consistent about that -- the one who does not get called first for the final two wins. plus, danielle having no myspace.. I anticipated: joanie called first, danielle will be antm. I have little doubt (but will I be surprised?).
she's on the runway now looking great.
and here's joanie, also great. both so nice and sane and funny and likeable.
YES! yay. and Jade even leaves saying "they made a mistake." her mind - a rock. but I gotta give her that the poem of parting words was not bad "though I did bruised / living in a house / trying to become a popular muse.
yay that the final two are these lovely likeable people. and friends! the most real (apparently) friendship I've seen on this show. lovely for them to be the final two. and danielle's tears, oh baby.
you're about to win, you know. joanie has been called first lots, including for final two. and I think that this show is indeed consistent about that -- the one who does not get called first for the final two wins. plus, danielle having no myspace.. I anticipated: joanie called first, danielle will be antm. I have little doubt (but will I be surprised?).
she's on the runway now looking great.
and here's joanie, also great. both so nice and sane and funny and likeable.
Suddenly I am unable to blog to blogger from Flickr -me too-. It says:"Your blog posting failed. If your configuration details have changed, update them now."If I try to "Add a weblog", it says "The username and password you entered were not a valid blogger account."Anybody have any clues?
http://www.flickr.com/forums/bugs/22586/
CurtisJoeWalker says:
The problem is indeed related to the word verification anti-spam thing. The solution:"To avoid further inconveniences when publishing, click the "?" (question mark) icon next to the word verification on your posting form"More info here:help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1261&topic=17 Posted 11 hours ago.
hmm but posting this (from blogger) I don't get the word-verification (did get it yesterday sending hotmail mssg though, thought that this could be a deal-breaker if starts being every time. but it's not.
.wilkie says:
i think ive figured it out. along with disabling word verification, i have found that to post something successfully, for some reason it has to have a title. generally i dont put titles on my posts, but i accidentally did and it worked!, so i tested it out with like 10 other photos and it worked too. try posting with a title and removing it later, it should work. ah that's it probably. all the photos I was trying to blog were from one photog (polaroids - kitty, flower,..) who does not have titles. so. (here goes.)
[16th May, 2006 Whoa! Things have changed around here! We released a new version of the website today, with new navigation, a new version of the Organizr, new powerful search and more... For more details, check out these posts on FlickrBlog: Changes Afoot & Alpha... Beta... Gamma!.]
http://www.flickr.com/forums/bugs/22586/
CurtisJoeWalker says:
The problem is indeed related to the word verification anti-spam thing. The solution:"To avoid further inconveniences when publishing, click the "?" (question mark) icon next to the word verification on your posting form"More info here:help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1261&topic=17 Posted 11 hours ago.
hmm but posting this (from blogger) I don't get the word-verification (did get it yesterday sending hotmail mssg though, thought that this could be a deal-breaker if starts being every time. but it's not.
.wilkie says:
i think ive figured it out. along with disabling word verification, i have found that to post something successfully, for some reason it has to have a title. generally i dont put titles on my posts, but i accidentally did and it worked!, so i tested it out with like 10 other photos and it worked too. try posting with a title and removing it later, it should work. ah that's it probably. all the photos I was trying to blog were from one photog (polaroids - kitty, flower,..) who does not have titles. so. (here goes.)
[16th May, 2006 Whoa! Things have changed around here! We released a new version of the website today, with new navigation, a new version of the Organizr, new powerful search and more... For more details, check out these posts on FlickrBlog: Changes Afoot & Alpha... Beta... Gamma!.]
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