FBCDN image is not allowed in stream, How can this be?

by Stephen Dewitsky posted on June 22 2010 13:15  

The phrase "FBCDN image is not allowed in stream" does not have much meaning to most of the natural world, but to a developer integrating with Facebook features this phrase is a nightmare.  Over the past year we have been developing iPhone apps that will process images in unique ways.  We thought it would be interesting to allow users to share these images with their friends on Facebook, if they have any friends.  The normal procedure is a two part process.  First, a user would upload the image to their very own photo gallery hosted on their Facebook profile.  When that is successful the user could then choose to publish a message to their stream which would include a link to this recently uploaded image.  It was fast and it was fun.

About two weeks ago I noticed that some previously published feeds, and any new feeds, were missing the shared photo.  Immediately I thought there must be a problem with the code.  Let me take a look.  HMMMMMMM.  Everything looks good, but why is the image missing?  Wow, I don't have much time to continue debugging this.  Let me check Facebook Developer Documentation.  Nothing here about missing images.

On the 17th of June 2010 the shock was felt. I was testing a new iPhone app we are working on for in20years.com.  The Facebook integration was complete and I attempted to publish a message to my Facebook profile using a Facebook Photo Gallery image.  The process came to a halt and the dialog read, "FBCDN image is not allowed in stream ..... You can see this because you are one of the developers of the app."  Ouch.  I could indeed see this message and yet I have no idea what it means.  Endless Google searches return nothing.

With shifting priorities in schedule we decided to let this go for the weekend.  Monday morning was a bit more informative.  Facebook Developer Forums erupted in outrage that all existing apps ceased to work due to this error. The official word came through an RSS feed reading:

Serving Images in Stream Stories
Jun 18, 2010 3:21pm

We no longer allow stream stories to contain images that are hosted on the fbcdn.net domain. The images associated with these URLs aren't always optimized for stream stories and occasionally resulted in errors, leading to a poor user experience. Make sure your stream attachments don't reference images with this domain. You should host the images locally.

So what does this mean?  Well it depends on your point of view.  It means Facebook does not have enough consideration for current applications using images in the fbcdn.net domain to grace the developers with a warning of this new policy.  I was experiencing problems for weeks before this statement was released.  It means that developers cannot rely on any implementation of a Facebook API component to behave the way they expect on a day to day basis.  It means that developers must find a way to host their own images if they plan on placing them in a Facebook Stream.  It means we must react with Ninja-like reflexes.

 

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「巨大仏!!」 ［NEWS］

「巨大仏!!」

日本各地に点在する超巨大仏像の数々をひたすら撮りつづけた写真集

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世界初の企画なのだという（そりゃそうだろう）。本書は、なぜか日本各地に点在する超巨大仏像の数々をひたすら撮りつづけた写真集だ。

まずは、その写真術を評価したい。「とにかくでっかい仏像」が、日常の風景のなかにある、という、どうしようもない「違和感」が、すべての写真に通低するテーマとなっている。ときにそれは、ユーモラスであり、ときに軽くショッキングだったりもする。それが全28体、民家の屋根のむこうに／道路を見下ろすように／山のなかにこつ然と──偉容をあらわすその様は、超現実的であり、同時にこれこそが、「いまのニッポン」の風景なのだなあと納得させられるものがある。

ちなみに、本書で挙げられた「巨大仏」の基準とは「ウルトラマンよりも大きいこと」だそうで、それ以下のサイズは「プチ巨大仏」となるそうだ。また、各巨大仏ごとに「鎌倉の大仏（13m）を縦に積んで何体ぶんとなるのか？」というイラストがバロメーターがわりに掲載されているのもわかりやすい（？）。なんでも、日本最大の巨大仏は茨城の「牛久大仏」（120m）だそうで、このサイズともなると、鎌倉の大仏が手のひらに乗るはずなのだという。

巨大仏関連の書籍では、宮田珠己さんの『晴れた日は巨大仏を見に』が、本書に先行するものとしてあった。同書は論考およびエッセイが中心だった。であるから、本書はただただヴィジュアル・ショックを追い求めるという姿勢を貫徹させて、先行書との差異化に成功したといえるだろう。僕は地上波を観ないためよくわからないのだが、著者は放送作家として成功しているかたなのだという。正常な美意識からはおおいに逸脱したこれら巨大仏を、風景の一部の「珍なるもの」として認め、愛でるようなこの視線は、著者がテレビの現場から得たものなのだとしたら、この点も、日本的で、面白い。

本書に追随できる企画を僕は思いついた。それは「巨大仏の空撮」だ。できれば動画がいい。リオデジャネイロのコルコバードの丘のキリスト像（30m）が、いつも頭上から空撮されているように。その映像こそが「リオの象徴」のひとつとなっているように。日本全国の巨大仏を「さらに高い位置」から眺めることで、よりいっそう、この日本という「珍なる国」がよく見えてくるのではないか、という気がした。

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(video)Genius of Lady Gaga - In Camera interview

Genius of Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga was the ninth participant for In Camera interview series.

Pop phenomenon, fashion icon and award-winning recording artist, in May 2010 Lady Gaga became the ninth participant in our In Camera live interview series, exclusively answering questions submitted by friends, celebrities and fans worldwide.

View the on-demand footage of this exclusive broadcast here alongside the real-time transcript edit created during the course of the interview process.

The Transcript

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  SHOWstudio.com is a fashion website, first and foremost - Lady Gaga, we have asked you to be the ninth participant in our series of In Camera interviews because, more than any other contemporary musician, your work feels inextricably connected to fashion. What function does fashion serve for you? Do you use it to underline your musical themes, or is it another outlet for a different type of creative expression?

  - asked by Alexander Fury, London.

  

  It's all of the above, but I think more importantly on a cultural level I think music and fashion have always mirrored each other as part of a creative context. They cannot be separate. I need fashion for my music, and I need music for my fashion.

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  You are such an inspiration, from what you wear to how you sing. But where do you get your inspiration from?

  - asked by Ricky White , New York, New York.

  

  From capital HIM. I think there are two different kinds of artists. People who need to be plugged into a cultural movement, in music, fashion or the latest fishing techniques. But I think for some of us - and I would perhaps say the same about my friend Nick Knight - it's a much more innate gift. A much more spiritual experience. We don't have to be plugged into a particular movement to be part of it. It's transcendent, it's an inspiration that we're born with. To be perfectly honest, right now my biggest inspirations are my fans...(cunt. after the gaga)

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Jerry Lee Lewis Serge Gainsbourg (Midi doc)

This is a mash of the best moments of this unlikely meeting and juxtapostion of two Killers. Jerry Lee arrives at the airport in Bourges, France, where waiting for him is none other than Serge 'Lemon Incest' Gainsbourg. Cut to much later that night, and you won't believe the subjects that these two, one of whom (Serge) is completely shitfaced but funny as hell--Oh, AND JERRY LEE PLAYS GUITAR. Here's a hint: they talk about PUSSY...a lot!

 

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Jerry Lee Lewis Serge Gainsbourg (Official Midi doc) Festival du Printemps de Bourges

Report on the Printemps de Bourges 1987 directed by Serge Gainsbourg. Without voice-over commentary, editing alternates interviews, rehearsal footage and concert singers and bands playing this year. Most songs are not sung in their entirety. Rehearsals and performances are linked in a very fitting cut.

Reportage sur le Printemps de Bourges 1987 réalisé par Serge GAINSBOURG. Sans commentaire off, le montage fait alterner interviews, extraits de répétitions et de concerts de chanteurs et groupes musicaux à l'affiche cette année. La plupart des chansons ne sont pas chantées dans leur intégralité. Les répétitions et les interprétations s'enchaînent dans un montage très cut.

 

 

 ROUND UP

Jerry Lee Lewis Meets Serge Gainsbourg  

This is a mash of the best moments of this unlikely meeting and juxtapostion of two Killers. Jerry Lee arrives at the airport in Bourges, France, where waiting for him is none other than Serge 'Lemon Incest' Gainsbourg. Cut to much later that night, and you won't believe the subjects that these two, one of whom (Serge) is completely shitfaced but funny as hell--Oh, AND JERRY LEE PLAYS GUITAR. Here's a hint: they talk about PUSSY...a lot!

Festival du Printemps de Bourges: round up this week:

Saturday, 4/18/1987

Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg on stage singing together "Knife in the play."

19/04/1987

Brief interview with Rita Mitsouko (Fred and Catherine RINGER Chichin)

Karim Kacel on stage.

Ray CHARLES onstage at the piano.

 Jerry Lee Lewis on stage

 04/22/1987:

Charles Trenet singing (from "There's the joy")

Jean Claude CASADESUS conducting the Mahler's 5th Symphony

Cathedral of Bourges.

Birkin, Jane ; Clegg, Johnny ; Lewis, Jerry Lee ; Head, Murray ; Southside, Johnny ; Alpha Blondy ; Savuka ; Communards-groupe ; Lazlo, Viktor ; Orchestre National de France ; Ray, Charles

Gainsbourg, Serge

 

 

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Ken Okiishi (Goodbye to) Manhattan (2010)

"Chapter One. He adored New York City," begins Woody Allen's 1979 Manhattan. "To him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity to cause so many people to take the easy way out . . ." Allen's line may be an allusion to suicide, but one less radical departure for New York creatives has been, traditionally, to move away. With seemingly exponential increase over the past decade, asylum seekers have turned not to Brooklyn but to Berlin, inaugurating in their wake a love-hate fantasy wherein the German capital is cast as a utopian center of artistic production, and New York as a place to sell, not to make––a sexy but commercial hell. The success of Ken Okiishi's film work (Goodbye to) Manhattan, 2010, is its dismantling of that bipolar fantasy, of which its protagonists are ostensibly a part.

Okiishi has been living between New York and Berlin since 2001, and (Goodbye to) Manhattan combines materials from that experience (filmed between 2006 and 2009) into a seventy-two-minute, semiautobiographical transposition of Allen's classic. Okiishi's cast of characters is pared down to Manhattan's three female protagonists, interpreted by key players in the artist's actual New York/Berlin life; its script is the Google translation, into English, of the German version of Allen's original. The resultant semantic layering is mirrored in the video's sometimes vertiginous, pixelated editing; still, if there is anything neurotic here, it is only in both films' intuitive, historicized preoccupation with Germanness. Okiishi's work indulges the hysterical potential of that transatlantic transaction; its Technicolor destabilizes a black-and-white cliché. One sees a zany shopping and dining experience in West Berlin's KaDeWe department store; Manhattan meanwhile languishes under a sound track of slightly decelerated Gershwin tunes that have the metallic quality of a recording made, perhaps, in the hull of a Berlin-bound Boeing 757.

(Goodbye to) Manhattan's presentation in Berlin this summer, after its debut at New York's Alex Zachary Gallery earlier this year, provides an opportunity to view the work in the space in which it was partly conceived and filmed: Galerie Neu's apartment annex, where Okiishi once briefly resided. Viewers, too, thus find themselves green-screened into the film's Berlin/Manhattan hallucination––the work, after all, is about you.

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Death Penalty, The Chinese Style

The Chinese authorities intend to reduce the number of 68 death charges in criminal law to 55. The adequate draft law was submitted to the parliament of the country on August 23.

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Some of those charges were rarely used before as the reason for sentencing perpetrators to death penalty. The abolishment of death penalty on other articles of the nation's criminal law means that such crimes as robbery or the production of forged monetary checks will not be considered in China as socially dangerous. To crown it all, the country will have both the bottom and the top age limit for the use of death penalty - 18 and 70-75 years respectively.

International human rights organizations constantly criticize China for its absolute leadership in terms of legalized death penalties. China passes up to 80 percent of all death sentences on the planet.

Chinese authorities execute about 1,700 people every year, official statistics data say. Human rights activists believe that the real number is much higher and may even reach 10,000 people a year. It can be true indeed, because the Chinese authorities classify the information related to death penalty and share it with the general public unwillingly.

Russia Today: Death row case in Texas stirs US death penalty debate

In China, a person can be sentenced to death not only for such serious crimes as espionage, state treason, murder, but for other less serious felonies, such as illegal trade, pimping, organizing brothels, grave desecration, making counterfeit bank notes, etc. However, one should bear in mind the fact that some death articles of the Chinese criminal law have become anachronism. For example, they have capital punishment stipulated for opening brothels, whereas brothels can be found practically everywhere in the country.

The Chinese authorities try to keep up with the times and expand the list of death charges periodically. For example, in 2003, the nation introduced capital punishment for the deliberate distribution of SARS infection and for the production of toxic raw materials. For instance, the entrepreneurs behind the production of melamine-containing milk powder were executed last year.

Human rights activists claim that there is no such notion as "presumption of innocence" in China. Evidence received under tortures is considered reliable and legally valid, defendants' lawyers may not always be present during interrogations, etc.

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