First of all, why isn't this covered on the FAQ? www.plurk.com/faq

The faq does say image addressses get automatically transformed. They give this example: photobucket.com/image/ca...

Oops, bad example. That image has been deleted from Photobucket!

Try this one: photobucket.com/image/ca...

Crap that doesn't work either. I'm going to look for the address of one of Jjacek's lolkitten images

pokelibrary.com/images/p...

That was the first thing I found, and it worked. Try it with text in front: pokelibrary.com/images/p...

That works too

Now for a standard <b>bold</b> using html

Nope

Websites get automatically transcluded, but withou the "http" part: dantonsideways.blogspot....

Thanks, Katharine. Does the Plurk help say that anywhere? Is there a Plurk help other than the minimalist FAQ?

Testing: *italic*, **bold**, __underline__, `monospace`

Can't you hide the **asterisks**, for example? And what the heck IS monospacing anyhow (I just learned what a "backtick" is).

I was going to try <a href""></a>, but Katharine says you just follow the the URL with (text in parentheses) so I'll try that

dantonsideways.blogspot.... blog)

oops maybe I should have left a space: my blog

Monospacing refers to fonts in which each character has the same width (that is what I expected, but why would anyone want to force that?)

plurk help and tips / the *BIG* list of Plurkisms

the help and tips aren't official but they are really useful.

more useful, by far, than the 'official' resources.

Wikipedia explains that monospace is a convenience to programmers, in that it increases readability in code

But who is ever going to plurk a whole program, line by line?

Thanks moggs - I followed that guide to put "@" in front of your name to transform your name into a link

woot!

`10 PRINT "HELLO!"`

`20 GOTO 10`

says nerny

Tenebrous a friendly shove in admonishment before logging off for the night.

oof :p

Tenebrous for forgiveness, it was, err... meant to be friendly... hmmm. Hands Tenebrous a bacon sandwich and some tim tams for later.

But don't try posting a picture and then putting some words in parentheses afterwards... it'll eat the words

nomnomnom