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December 2, 2010 at 7:37 pm #708259
DPMemberThis is a grey area, legally speaking.
Generally, you should NOT use material that someone else, someone like Christopher for example, produces for a living, because that diminishes the value of the creator’s work in the marketplace.
On the other hand, courts have granted some leeway to Netizens who have used copyright-protected material (in both graphic and text format) for purposes of general commentary, criticism, or satire, particularly when the work used is excerpted rather than presented in its complete form.
Courts have been harsher with people who try to profit from the work or brand-recognition value of others. So if you have a commercial coffee-related site, for example, and you wanna use the Starbucks logo, better get permission first.
A recent test case involved Wikipedia’s use of the FBI logo for an article on the FBI. As I recall, the Bureau sued (unsuccessfully) to enjoin Wikpedia from using its logo, citing an existing law that was intended merely to keep folks from impersonating FBI agents. So far, the courts have sided with Wikipedia, and the FBI logo stays:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fbi
By the way, anything you get off Wikipedia (and other sites that use the “Creative Commons” protocol) is free for distribution, but it’s generally good manners to credit the source there, too.
Finally, I should say that the vast majority of stuff you find on the Web nowadays is NOT original material anyway. So by the time you discover an interesting or unusual picture (a cute little kitten, for example) chances are it has already become an Internet “meme” — posted and re-posted and re-re-posted a million times over.
December 3, 2010 at 4:37 am #708260
redblackParticipantphotobucket.com is a good alternative for hot-linking: it’s free, and it’s easy to use. (lots of cut-n-pasties on the right side of the screen.)
btw, WSB uses wordpress for their code – for posters who want to know basic commands like making bold or italicized text, or adding links to their posts.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts
remember: RTFM, and ask questions. we were all noobs at one time. we’re your neighbors, and we won’t laugh at you.
much.
December 3, 2010 at 5:16 am #708261
miwsParticipantDecember 3, 2010 at 5:45 am #708262
DPMemberSend me your code miws. I’ll give you some feedback on it.
December 3, 2010 at 7:02 am #708263
miwsParticipantI was just testing the “del” tags I’d found after clicking redblack’s codex link. They apparently aren’t allowed in this Forum (except maybe by Admins.)
A few weeks ago, I wanted to post something with a line through it, certain I had done so here in the Forums in the past, (but apparently not) and neither <strike>, nor <s> worked, so thought I’d give <del> a shot.
Thanks anyhow!
Mike
January 6, 2011 at 11:47 pm #708264
SlyBankerMemberJanuary 7, 2011 at 3:08 am #708265
DPMemberSly: Your insert worked but the display is slow to update. What is your file size on this? (I could check it myself, but I’m too lazy.)
Did you optimize it on export to JPG format?
P.S. Nice photo by the way.
January 7, 2011 at 3:21 am #708266
austinMemberImage post refresher (for my remembering).
DP the image in question is under 500k. Not that huge but a bit bigger than your previously suggested 100k.
January 7, 2011 at 3:22 am #708267
SlyBankerMemberThanks.
Yeah, I optimized it but chose maximum for the quality output which resulted in a 500k file. I just changed it to a little lower quality so it’s now an 80k file. Should be a little quicker now.
January 7, 2011 at 6:32 am #708268
DPMemberYeah, that definitely helped, Sly, with very little loss in quality.
My 100K was just a suggestion, by the by, but 500K is clearly pushing it.
austin, what’s the doo-hickey?
My guess (without peeking at the file name) is that it’s some kind of glass appurtenance (such as a cookware lid) that has been submerged under water.
Either that or it’s gotta be an Ion Flux Transfer Chamber of the type that would come in verrry handy for interplanetary space travel.
January 7, 2011 at 9:14 am #708269
austinMemberThe file name will not help you. The tiny pic service creates a random character file name and strips meta/exif data. The item in the center of the photo is about a centimeter across. It’s more related to the study of travel through time than space.
January 7, 2011 at 4:26 pm #708270
AndyParticipantMust be clock related, then? I don’t know much about timepieces, but I’ve never had watch that had any parts looking like that.
Looks a bit like something that might be found in a -ahem- tobacco shop.
Another question related to the original topic: I just tried to do italics with the usual <i></i> thing, and it didn’t work. What’s the rub?
January 7, 2011 at 6:51 pm #708271
miwsParticipantAndy, over here on Forums, using those same brackets, you need to use em in place of i, and strong, in place of b (bold).
Mike
January 7, 2011 at 7:36 pm #708272
DPMemberYeah, you can think of it like “dial ’em’ for emphasis.”
Mike: does <i> do anything at all?
Or should it be <me>?
Hmmm. Does me do anything at all?
That doesn’t sound right somehow.
I know me do all kind of thing.
Me get up.
Me take shower.
Me blog.
Me eat cookie.
Nom! Nom! Nom!
(Cookie gone now.)
January 7, 2011 at 7:45 pm #708273
DPMemberOK, austin, Andy guessed a “watch dial.”
Yay or nay?
Also, this gibberish about “tiny pic” service and stripping “meta/exif data” suggests that you are using some kind of picture file hosting service. Would you care to tell us more about that?
Also, did you take the photo yourself? I see some refracted light in the picture, so I’m guessing that’s caused either by water or some curved glass surface.
–David
January 7, 2011 at 8:12 pm #708274
austinMemberIt’s not a watch dial. I did take the photo, and it does have both water and a curved glass surface in it.
Tiny pic – http://tinypic.com/ is a free digital media (photo/video) hosting service useful for sticking unimportant* photos into forum posts and whatnot without needing your own web space. Some folks have websites or other online media storage that they can use to host pictures but tinypic requires no commitment beyond a copy + paste of the link they provide you with. You don’t even have to sign up, it’s just upload and link. *I say unimportant because unlike other image hosting sites that let you keep a library of images to return to, tinypic is more suited to a single use of a link. Helpful for using a specific photo to try to figure out how to insert pictures into your posts on the west seattle blog forums, for example. Carson mentioned imageshack.com in post 22; it does the same thing, or at least something very similar. I can’t speak for any kind of resizing or compression that they might do to one’s images but I did notice tinypic removed the date/time/camera type information that every digital photo contains. I know photobucket.com does not remove that information, for whatever that’s worth.
January 7, 2011 at 8:31 pm #708275
DPMemberThanks for the info on tiny pic, austin. That’s great news for people who want to insert their own images. It sounds like the service might also do some resizing for you.
OK, more questions about your photo:
I’m guessing you took this with something other than a camera phone, but you don’t need to confirm or deny that.
♣ Is the object at the center of your photo an integral part of some food preparation device?
♣ Is it something that might be found in the average West Seattle household?
♣ Is the object rigid or flexible?
January 7, 2011 at 8:56 pm #708276
austinMemberThe new iphones take ok photos even close up from what I understand, however my phone’s camera does not. I use a Canon.
♥ Not part of a food prep device, but it can go in the kitchen. It sort of looks like a weird gas burner though doesn’t it? Or maybe a lid handle to a casserole dish or fancy cast iron pot.
♦ That is a tough question. It’s not as ubiquitous as a fridge or even a tv, but more common than a firearm (it is not a fridge, tv, or firearm).
♠ It is not flexible.
January 7, 2011 at 9:08 pm #708277
AndyParticipantWell, there’s glass, so it is at least partially rigid.
Curved glass. Water. Related to the study of travel through time.
Some sort of art deco waterboarding device?
January 7, 2011 at 9:10 pm #708278
AndyParticipantI had a a bit of thinkery that it might be a decanter of some sort.
January 7, 2011 at 10:17 pm #708279
DPMember“Decanter” is a good guess, Andy, but remember, the central object is only a centimeter across. It’s like the photographer is deliberately using it as a prism or light-distorting device, rather than studying the object itself.
austin: Would you say that it is more of a more decorative device? Or is it more utilitarian in its purpose?
January 7, 2011 at 10:23 pm #708280
SlyBankerMemberI was thinking champagne flute or candle holder but I don’t see how those are related to time.
January 7, 2011 at 10:48 pm #708281
AndyParticipantI missed the earlier bit about the centimeter.
Is the water a permanent thing, or can it be drained and refilled?
January 7, 2011 at 10:50 pm #708282
DPMemberCandlestick holder fits (a candle burning down denotes the passage of time) but it would have to be an awfully small candle.
January 7, 2011 at 10:55 pm #708283
SlyBankerMemberYeah, if that middle part is a centimeter across, it would have to be a pretty small candle. It’s the greatest match stick holder ever made.
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