Category Archives: flickr

flickr censorship?

June 27, 2007 – 20:29

Flickr is dealing with a lot of censorship fuzz lately, some legit and some not imo.
For instance in this case where the sex blogger Violet Blue got her pictures censored because her account didn’t make it through the adult filter is kinda shitty. Her account wasn’t packed with porn or anything, but as someone who [...]

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flickr now more secure… bugger

March 7, 2007 – 23:24

Yep, Flickr.com got a bit more “secure” recently, if you can call it that, and I have to say that I’m sorry to find out about it.
You see, flickr users posting their nifty pics could disallow surfers like myself from viewing the original photo and only allow the preview on the main photo page.
This [...]

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funny subtitle mashup

November 18, 2005 – 21:18

Sometimes technology can fuck things up, and be funny at the same time. Most of the time it’s just plain irritating when it happens, but this series of pictures I stumbled upon on flickr is of the funny, first, and rarest kind.
Apparently the tv subtitles got all screwy, and combined those from a news [...]

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flickr is out there

July 10, 2005 – 20:12

I’ve been going on about Flickr before, but latetly it amazed me how quickly images related to global events show up in their directory.
The tagging system is really proving it works with those, and before you know it you can easily find pictures online from events like live 8, the glastonbury festival, Kirsten Dunst [...]

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