I'm experimenting with using Flickr as a hosting solution for images. The first image is a thumbnail as a hyperlink to the photo's "home page."
Here's the full-size image as a hyperlink to the home page.
And here's the square thumbnail by itself. If I understand the Terms of Service correctly, embedding this <img> tag directly in a blog posting is a no-no. You're expected to always hyperlink back to the photo's home page (what I would call the comments page). The by-itself image is for cases where you just want to download someone else's pic, or you want to use a thumbnail as, say, a buddy icon. It's a little tricky to find the magic page where the URLs for these sized images are revealed: you have to click the ALL SIZES icon on the photo's comments/home page.

When you're embedding the image in a blog posting, you're still responsible for coding the HSPACE attribute (or margins, if you use style sheets).

posted: 10:26:20 PM  

Being Julia is a diverting bit of fluff, a pleasant vehicle for the resilient Annette Bening, adapted from a novella by Somerset Maugham. Filmed in honeyed tones by Lajos Koltai, scored with Cole Porter songs, and economically cut, it is a story of dalliances among the theatrical set in London before the Second World War. Julia Lambert (Bening) is the sort of person that can only be provoked into genuine emotion when her skills as an actor are challenged.

Juliet Stevenson seems to have made her peace with playing character roles: she is suitably crusty as Julia's dresser and co-conspirator.

posted: 9:35:37 PM  

Eeeuuuhhhwww.

(Thanks to Bookslut.)

posted: 1:45:59 PM