ADMIN POST: The Icon Explanation Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

This one comes from doll_revolution and it's so good that I think we'll let it go for two weeks so that Escapade doesn't interrupt it. It's The Icon Explanation Challenge, which doll explains as "where we write a DS story based on our favorite icon that other people have."

In other words, write a story that explicates or illustrates a DS icon that you've seen on the web, and please include the icon *with* your story. Think of the icon as an illustration of sorts (and please note whose icon it is that you're using!)

Today's Wednesday by my watch; stories are due two Wednesdays from now (i.e. February 18th) at midnight.

Edited to add: Just to clarify; I don't intend for you to use the icon yourself; rather, you should upload it with the story, as a picture, and be sure to cite where it's from. This isn't an exercise in icon-stealing; rather, it should work more like the "favorite icon" meme that went around some time ago. If there are other questions, please drop a comment in the notes!

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[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

(Assuming I get an idea for this one) how does one go about displaying an icon? Is there an easy way, short of giving it space on one's server? Only I'm having FTP issues right now ... and I seem to remember somebody 'splainin' how to do this.

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[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Let's see if I can do this...

I right clicked on your icon (I'm using Opera, but I believe this will work similarly in other browsers) and that gave me a list of options, one of which was "Copy image address". If I paste it here, it looks like:

http://userpic.livejournal.com/1612681/547955

And if I put it in an IMG (in HTML) it looks like this:

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[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

kewl

thanks