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2019-12-07

Raise Your Flag (Rewind 2019 edition)

Almost one year in my good article quest on two enwiki biographies, some updates:
  • Yes, I misinterpreted the intent of Björk's song, i.e., various aspirant countries not limited to Foroyar—always nice to get GMT as the favourite timezone—because raise your flag also works for other topics not limited to LGBTQ flags.
  • My dogma department always insisted on no male gods, and no male witches as corollary, with a female Roman luna vs. a male German moon as fun fact. Of course la lune is your friend, where le soleil is potentially aggressive, and die Sonne is your friend, where der Mond could be too cold for comfort. Wicca vs. Old English female wicce was news for me. Bye bye, Cerrunos, Karnaya, Herne, and Osiris, drawing the line at blasphemy. The main rule is a living person SHALL NOT be considered as goddess with tons of reasons, try queen if you are desperate.
  • For the pride flags I really don't care above one enwiki citation needed fix followed by a tumblr post, but it could be a nice project for 2020, get the labrys symbol into my Freeciv radius ruleset as proper flag for the Natives instead of stealing the Aleut flag, or recycling the NATO flag only because it starts with nat.
  • Otherwise All Quiet on the Western Front, the phans lost their bridge-head and the breach is heavily guarded, as always too late, but hey. The nerds wait for an endorsement from their queen. Nothing against AOC, Ball, or Iversen, but they are not my favourite coffee junkie.
Björk – Declare Independence (Paris 2008)
Rewind 2019
Bestial Mouths – Witchdance
Rewind 2018

Background, Richie Havens' Freedom at the top of Rewind 2019 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival in 1969.

BTW, two YouTube oddities, actually I picked Fatboy Slim samples Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UN during UK concert by The Guardian as playlist thumbnail, but that's not the first entry. Sharing YouTube playlists does not work as it should at the moment (on blogger + tumblr), only the first video of the playlist is shown, I added links for the playlists here and hope for a fix also for other posts with embedded playlists.

One of those magical effects, Yoko Ono had a blog Butter NotMargarine read by Mismade Girl, I once owned Ono's Walking on Thin Ice vinyl single, found the eponymous YouTube channel, and stumbled over this Live in Woodstock gem. Just to be clear, I got the three LP record set about ten years later, but that was my favourite song. Today it would be Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit, Live from Woodstock 1969 featured as off by one (year) in the In principio (pt. 1: 1970-1999) playlist. 40 years ago this kind of magic seriously spookedimpressed me, now I enjoy it.🧙

File:Labrys-symbol.svg on WikiMedia Commons

2019-09-30

Greta . (German . Trutzteutsch)

Barely avoiding a first German aus gegebenem Anlass post here.😞

Hier Kommt Alex

Klapperstrauss

Clockwork Orange
Brave New World
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Lord of the Flies

2019-09-20

I miss you × I know it when I see it

A short episode in the YouTube vs. users series:
  1. Too much transparency, it is none of my business who claimed the copyright for a now deleted video, unless I uploaded it.
  2. Not enough transparency, I need a notification if a video in one of my playlists is deleted.
Background, a triple strike on Björk in In principio (pt. 1: 1970-1999): Human Behaviour v=KDbPYoaAiyc is now v=36Srr08PN_Y, I miss you v=IKSoBJ8WirE is now v=ybDX_5hQ6So (non-adult version), and Hunter v=CyM5wow-hUk is now v=DnW77jmr-Xg.  There are lots of I miss you versions on YouTube, but I cannot tell if one of them is the wannabe-adult version for a playlist about YouTube's Community Guidelines. Or in other words, I removed I miss you from the Guidelines playlist, because there is still another "uncensored" (age-restricted) Pagan Poetry video by Björk in it, and I replaced it in the 1970-1999 playlist.

While at it, the deleted Declare Independence v=4z7NN4n8CTY in In principio (pt. 2: 2000-2019) is a major loss, I'm not going to find and fix all posts here, where I embedded this master piece. IMNSHO this is a bug, YouTube could simply redirect its URL to the still existing identical v=4P5xSntVWQE. Don't let them do that to youRaise your flag:



Just for the records, the (apparently) deleted account issue (2) has nothing to do with the leaked copyright strike issue (1), only the platform (YouTube) and the effect (deleted video) are similar.

2019-08-25

Chilling effects

Google whining about chilling effects of, e.g., EU privacy laws, makes no sense while their own YouTube Community Guidelines are a major part of the problem.  For 1/10 sec "male body part" in a historic (2008) 44 sec bonus scene of the 9to5 documentary I'm willing to find a compromise such as "blur" or even skip some frames.

OTOH 4 sec "woman douching" in a historic (2010) 214 sec interview by Clara Cullen are definitely not sexually gratifying, NSFW, or whatever.  Folks searching for four-letter words in video titles on YouTube—for the purpose of reporting this, anybody really interested in Pron would try PronHub—might be another part of the problem, but just accepting obviously bogus reports doesn't help to solve it.

Transparency report 2018
Transparency Report 2018
Transparency report 2019 (so far)
Transparency Report 2019 (so far)
…uploaded on March, 14 (PT)

2019-08-23

Hey you, you're losing, you're losing your…

To some degree tumblr worked for me as an ersatz-Google+ or actually ersatz-Buzz: I could like some Instagram-posts automagically copied to tumblr. YouTube's "share on tumblr" feature also worked, same idea as "share on blogger". The opposite direction—share something found on tumblr elsewhere—might be tricky if you don't accept any "tumblr as a platform" spam. Or it is like SoundCloud, their default <embed>-code for sharing is horrible, with some radical manual modifications it is good enough, TBD.

Still having fun with my YouTube playlists:

"Vitamin C" on Toxic Waste

"Your Mind" on Rewind 2018

"DAF Mussolini" on Klapperstrauss
"KMFDM Mussolini" on I know it when I see it



2019-05-16

First we take Manhattan

After some FAILs on enwiki one success, Pendu Sound Recording made it from draft to published article, 100% pure "anonymous" work (as IP, no login).  One FAIL was a GA-review for the Sasha Grey page, but it was a near miss, LC.😛  Another (related) FAIL was trying to use the Renee Ruʇn site as RS.  Not too surprising, personal sites are generally not accepted as RS, only if the person is a recognised expert in her field it could work.  Maybe I shouldn't try these enwiki stunts for fields where I'm completely lost.

My at the moment six YouTube subscribers (Hi!) will hopefully tolerate that I plan to upload all (11) historic Attack of the Show! videos with Sasha Grey found on WayBack.  As of today I collected 109 videos in the Mismade Girl playlist, 7 photos in a Kayla Crow album on Google Photos, 40 photos in a Mismade Girl album, and 15 videos in a Juliette Society album.  You can guess the name of the album with 27 NSFW photos, I don't link it here again.  Meanwhile I also found this, that, and another Tumblr account.  Maybe that could be the third candidate—together with Reddit and SoundCloud—for an account replacing Google+, after I disqualified Twitter as too hostile.



Somebody killed the SoundCloud Nerdist 442 – Sasha Grey (2013) podcast copy, next attempt HTML5 <audio> for a raw libsyn.com MP3 URL, but that might expire, it is no proper embedded libsyn episode player.

2019-05-05

Raise Your Flag (pt. 4)

Parts 1, 2, and 3 corresponded to my Blogger profile with six favourite music videos, books, and films. Maybe I'll expand that later, today I add my top six C. J. Cherryh books suited for folks not planning to get into dubious trilogies or even the huge Foreigner saga.

I anyway don't like the male Foreigner protanogist and his unrealistic background. An elaborated State Department bureaucracy for in essence one ambassador representing one of two nations on a planet with boring marital problems makes no sense. Everything else in this saga is fine, but if I hate the hero it doesn't help.

This post is also inspired by Björk, her nice 340 MB audio download of a 2007 concert makes sadly no sense for my eight years old laptop, or for my ears, a few years older than hers ;-) The six book cover images are non-free, enwiki uses them as "fair use" on the relevant articles, and I hope that this is also okay in links to these enwiki pages:





Check out the English descriptions on Wikipedia for details, some quick notes: Actually I wanted to add Regenesis as second best after Cyteen, but they belong together, Cyteen is the first book featuring Ari Emory. I have the Baen version of The Paladin with a different cover, Wikipedia shows both. This is neither SF, nor Fantasy, it's about a heroine in a fictitious country—remotely like Japan, Korea, or China—trying to get her revenge after losing her family in a civil war, but first she has to become a sword master educated by The Paladin, another survivor and dissident, who is not immediately impressed by this rural girl.

Devil to the Belt is an omnibus of two books, the most proletarian work of Cherryh with a background history of "the rab", a youth movement, suppressed in a revolt against the companies, a part of Cherryh's Company Wars universe. Wikipedia labels it as "Alliance-Union" universe without reference; I'm not sure if that's the canonical name or "alternative facts". Merchanter's Luck and Tripoint also belong to this universe, but unlike Downbelow Station and Finity's End they are not essential to get the picture. Serpent's Reach is only remotely related to this universe, has a heroine, and fascinating bee-like aliens.

Ignore the prequel of Forge of Heavens, the Gene Wars universe was a short-lived disaster, but this book is one of Cherry's best, on the same level as The Bonfire of the Vanities. No Freeciv flag in this blog entry, check out Björk's SoundCloud, and don't let them do that to you:



2019-05-04

YouTube Got Talent (pt. 2)



Next musician in need of some serious WikiLove, she's not even one of those women in red at the moment, and a registered #GirlsGotGroove hashtag does not help on YouTube, if nobody uses it. Unregistered used hashtags also don't work on YouTube, both cases yield a small error message for #foobar immediately followed by any ordinary search results for foobar without #.

After some religious debates with myself I finally kicked Sina's drum covers as not good enough from the In principio (pt. 1) + (pt. 2) playlists, and then upgraded some original tracks incl. Deep Purple's Child In Time in the Religiously Incorrect + Toxic Waste playlists to Sina's 201x versions. Maybe some purists scream, but as you could have read in this blog there was a hard timeout in February from my PoV, so (quote) fuck it (unquote), and I've posted the source of this quote in March.

Back to April, all fine, Google+ died as planned, but without its exorcist as eye-witness, and maybe one protective spell three months ago with Deep Purple's April worked. Standard question, what could possibly go wrong? Answer: (1) Spells sometimes work. (2) If they work they sometimes backfire. Putting that together, for a time-limited protective spell, back could be in time and hit the target instead of the caster. Which might be exactly what happened, if an also convoluted explanation involving an obscure toxic forum since about November doesn't suffice. Meanwhile it's May, let's forget the Deep Purple April 2019, it's history like Google+.

I collected lots of Karma-points for the possible spell-disaster on another Emma, a bad case of woman in red fixed in record time by some enthusiasts, thanks: On Wikipedia wikilinks are shown in blue if the article exists, or in red if it does not yet exist. Meanwhile somebody uploaded the 19 images extracted from one video on WikiMedia Commons, and sadly the somebody was me: I broke a three years old WikiMedia log-in strike for this business, and on the same day I found that enwiki offers an image upload request page for these cases, tested, works.

If you missed major parts of the drama, you might wonder what happened to the Topic, VEVO, and Vloggery channels, it's explained on enwiki Emma Blackery. Of course unrelated to the five years old drama, YouTube always finds the worst points in time for changes related to this musician. Admittedly losing YouTube Heros, Rewind 2018, and Google+ to one singing Slytherin and her allies must have been hard for Alphabet, and hopefully she doesn't plan to kill Blogger just because she could. Back to music, she released the studio version of Cute Without You in April is the cruellest month:


2019-03-14

Mismade Girl

Sources:  Andrey Shpigar, The Juliette Society, and Renee Ruʇn.  One NSFW interview with Clara Cullen is hidden  (age protected) in the Mismade Girl  playlist, the birthday girl was in the shower, and one of the related links in the video description goes to some really nekkid  footage.


One year old podcast with Sluts & Scholars, one of them also fighting with the wonders of the YouTube Community Guidelines.  I'll try it again, maybe blurring a few critical pixels in 0.1 of 44 seconds, or removing some frames, when the 9to5 bonus scene  strike expired after 90 days:



2019-03-09

The Google+ black list


Now that's against my rules as of (roughly) 1983 to 2018, or isn't it? Sometimes enwiki manages to surprise me, and I'm not talking about the major obstacles when not logged-in users try to add a perfectly valid film title on a biography. Admittedly Fuck  is exactly what vandals would try to write, and there's an edit filter trying to forbid it. I'm not telling you how to bypass the filter, if you don't know this you might be up to no good, and I hate vandals armed with a mobile phone and social media rumours.

JFTR, the complete title is Fuck Slaves, and I needed it to explain two different awards in one year, where the second award was related to an arguably notable film, i.e., one wikilink was required for my second good article  quest, and one statement about two awards needed both titles.

Google+ also tried to surprise me with its second "sexually explicit"  strike in a "privately shared"  (unlisted) collection. The content was a perfectly harmless review of The Juliette Society, only the domain of the publisher has an X before its BIZ. Exactly the same X before a CRIT as in the first strike for a perfectly harmless 2006 interview originally posted here (on blogspot), now again posted here (by me as embedded scribd-PDF, there's certainly no X in scribd.)

Chilling effects, I dare not post it here at the moment, Blogger could also hate the X, I only know that this is not about the content. Lame excuse, after buying the first part of the trilogy I should anyway read it before linking more reviews.


After testing the title link, this playlist is as the name says toxic. I stick to the now usual layout and added two videos here.

2019-03-07

Post-modern feminist

Minor problem with my G+ backup strategy, five weeks ago there were 34 posts in a Mismade Girl collection, now there are 66 posts.  Almost everything is now also available here (or seriously NSFW, i.e., unsuited for this blog without age restriction.)

The YouTube playlist Mismade Girl now contains 62 videos:  I still have to check that 13 Vimeo videos are also available on YouTube and covered in this playlist, otherwise I can add them to the playlist, embed them here, or simply link dubious videos.

Scott Indrisek for Huffpost (2011-04-01)
Matteo Bittanti for Duellanti (2010-07-28)
Todd Konrad for IFQmag (2009), for cineasts

Leah Blewitt for FAULT (2013-10-24)

Carol Teixeira for A Obscena Senhorita C (2013)

Hard blasphemy strike near 21min in the July 2018 mix, some post-modern House instead of Tom Tom Club Wordy Rappinghood, what next, some boy (under 31y) mutilating Vogue?  This is just wrong.😛



2019-03-04

Bad feminist

After mentioning an obscure forum on also obscure enwiki talk page, maybe I'll address this issue later here. One reference at the bottom of this talk page (as of today) can fill the suspicious gap here—reduced to 45 seconds, the complete clip is good, open it in a new window if my allow="" (nothing) is too strict for this, or click on the title link of this blog entry.



Not adding the other possible label only because David Bowie is mentioned (outside of the 45 seconds), this is covered on the relevant enwiki page. Besides this death affected me less than the artist formerly known as Prince  in this millennium, maybe I simply missed the former, but needed a strong dose of Purple Rain for the latter.

Not as strong as five days of Third Eye 👁👁👁 in a loop, very apropos wrt potential self harm. Good luck for somebody apparently not following any advice (including her own), this creates some kind of impossible situation (or mission: impossible) for third parties (styling themselves as phans, don't ask.)

Fun facts, this is the 99th entry in the blog, the 99 Luftballons are now at 120, and an insane YouTube algorithm managed to suggest this today, instead of four weeks ago, or maybe in June, but not now

Mainstream Pop, no matter what, Paramore, Blackery, Madonna, Rihanna, Suzy Quatro's glam rock, whatever, is generally not at all my thing, never was, never will be. There are of course exceptions, e.g., Abba's I'm A Marionette or in essence the same story in Lady Gaga's Paparazzi, are just brilliant. YMMV, maybe you like Sucks to Be You:



2019-03-02

Lotta continua

Maybe a Wikidata motto text is not really intended for persons, but lotta continua clearly required an I dare inspired by the Liaden universe on my side.  If you have read the allure interview please be bold and extend the (as of today) very minimalistic enwiki statement.

Jamie Beckman for allure (2018-06-14)

Karley Sciortino for slutever (2014-05-11)

ASX.TV (2011-12-08)
Sarah Douglas for the Observer (2011-06-07)

Photos: Allan Amato for allure, Andrew Kuykendall for Nero Homme used by slutever, Richard Phillips at 00:35 and 01:02 in his Sasha Grey video on YouTube.



2019-03-01

G+ photo backup

Still T-31 days until G+ shuts down, but actually I want to be ready with the Mismade Girl import here before March, 14.  Checking enwiki, yes, mdy for US dates.  I'm not sure what happens with shared Google Photos below lh3.googleusercontent.com when G+ shuts down, maybe this post will be a mess after the <newspeak> sunset </newspeak>:

Note to self: Figure out how to stop animated GIF auto-play on Chrome later; for now I just enjoy it as funny.



2019-02-24

Duck or Grouse

My G+ backup strategy would kill my one high risk bet for 2020, so here is a copy. YouTuber Anni The Duck will have more than 1M subscribers before 2021. German, but for one song at the start it doesn't matter:



2019-02-21

YouTube Got Talent



2019-02-20

Raise Your Flag (pt. 3)

Apart from favourite music and books a blogger profile also offers favourite films, and this is my attempt to pick 3×2 films (as of today) and a third flag:


Obvious problem, this would be kicked out of my YouTube channel or go straight into the Religiously Incorrect playlist, but this is a blog, the channel rules are not (yet) applicable here. For some kind of minimal standard I picked seen at least twice, and of course fans of Hitchcock, Kubrick, or Monty Python would pick other master pieces (and I'd love to see them again, but what I listed here impressed me most.) Silent Running made me cry, that's rare for a movie or music (Kate Bush - Cloudbusting surprised me recently, after what, over 30 years, really?) For books it's not that rare, e.g., Han Qing-jao as heroine in Xenocide.

Hot candidates for position 7 include L'Age d'Or / Un Chien Andalou, Triumph of the Will (beating Metropolis), and at some point Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion would just hop to the top based on General Lydia van Dyke and Lt. Tamara Jagellovsk.

The Nato flag is unused in Freeciv and in theory suited for the Natives, but in practice no ruleset loads the unused flags, and changing that manually isn't easy, unless you accept that new versions will overwrite very simple straight forward modifications.

NATO flag for the Freeciv Natives

2019-02-15

El cerebro del sexo

Googlebot needs a clue, and I have my own ideas about what is or isn't notable.


John Rieber (2013-10-29)

Jamie Peck for The Village Voice (2011-03-30)

Sasha Grey en L'obs (2016-01-11)

The Village Voice photo on the right is tagged with Courtesy: Vice Books (publisher of NEÜ SEX), the El Cerebro Del Sexo  photo on John Rieber's site was presumably published as Rolling Stone España (2013): La sociedad Juliette, and the photo for the David Bowie tribute 2016 is visually related to a NEÜ SEX photo on The Village Voice page 2011.

Asking Google simple questions like "Rolling Stone España 2013 Sasha Grey"  is a complete waste of time, you get hundreds of photos unrelated to anything in the query (not 2013 and not Rolling and not Stone and not Sasha and not Grey), but thanks for the Pinterest image: I can't see it on their site, they want Javascript to be the worst site ever for any kind of image, I block this, but I certainly stole that nice image.



2019-02-10

Raise Your Flag (pt. 2)

Various cats, hamsters, 99 Luftballons, pugs, 140 billion unicorns and other magical creatures including a dragon seriously confused me, therefore I started a strategical retreat into the FoGs of Greyscale with at most one pet. Standard CCC question, what could possibly go wrong?

Nothing, until today, I found a 2017 film not yet listed in enwiki, a 2010 interview about another film with the same director and lead actor, some not so nice books about the Fields of Grey (fortunately in a NN state), and ten Google sites linking to free PDFs for the worst book, where free stood for only register with your e-mail address for a free trial followed by you're almost there, verify your address with your credit card, no costs at all.

Sure, I also loved that they couldn't predict if the PDF is actually available on their site or not. With the cheapest Amazon offer at about $ 850,– and lots of allegedly 1…3 hours old reviews, finally I got this rare e-book for free, and it is wonderful etc. One hour later I had doubled my number of Google abuse reports in this millennium (was 10, now 20.)

Checking a remaining biography I got some irrelevant search hits about the grey area, and one Twitter hit by her.😢 Without Twitter account all hashtags I really cared about were #SaveYourInternet (not necessarily agreeing with Alphabet), #the_accidental_poet (for the _poet), and #GirlsGotGroove (for Sina.) Even folks who never used Twitter get the idea of proper #metoo subsets, and that's why I'm now tackling the promised Raise Your Flag part 2 with a guaranteed number of zero pets:

The next entry will be tricky, it's definitely Liaden, but which heroine? The mathematician is brilliant while she lived, but her after-life and later resurrection are too bizarre for my tastes. Theo is clearly the best, a coming-of-age begin followed by a career as solo-fighter and renegade. OTOH if I need help against the dragon mentioned above it must be Priscilla, and the religious zealots (in my head) will try everything to have her. Some fanboys not busy with the Slytherin or the racing driver would of course pick Miri based on 5'2" up to 5'6" (and the wrong kind of red hairs, idiot boys), but that can't beat Priscilla or Theo. So, who is it, Priscilla? Thought so.

Moon is not the best of these authors, but Once a Hero is the best military SF I know (that includes Honor Harrington and what's listed above.) McMaster Bujold is brilliant, and I don't know only the Vorkosigan-Saga. However, Miles vs. Ari, it's not fair, by definition Ari is the better heroine. For Barrayar it's Cordelia vs. Ari, possibly maybe Cordelia should win, but I love coming-of-age stories as in Cyteen. Crystal singer is actually a trilogy and an exception, not the boring (for me) heroine gets at least six children, and at least one of those gets also six children plot, but a heroine who cannot get children at all. And "only" three books in a trilogy, not ten or whatever for the unicorn girl, and besides I've had it with unicorns after Hogwarts.

Griffith is a legend, and the part claiming that she's writing about sex are alternative facts: The thriller:tech:romance:sex ratio could be 9:7:3:1 on the border to not enough sex (admittedly more than all others listed above), and if you think that it's the wrong kind of sex check out The Diamond Age, neo-Victorian might be your thing. It also has a heroine and a coming-of-age plot.

While trying to fix all broken SVGs for Freeciv (that ultimately failed for various reasons, it can take years to not fix a single comma if it's outside of the radar of all still active maintainers) I never got to the point, where I could add Pirate Jenny as female leader to the Pirates, or just for fun Julia Reda. On YouTube folks disagree who was the best Pirate Jenny, with two or (counting Lotte Lenya) three hot candidates. I've found a fourth, Anne Kerry Ford is the most militant, demoting the others to drama queens.

Pirate flag

2019-02-08

NSFW

NSFW definitions vary wildly, YMMV. For the Penthouse July 2007 photos by Terry Richardson In The Raw 2010 NSFW makes sense. For a perfectly harmless Kobiata interview 2006 originally posted here (on Blogger) I didn't even bother to tag it as NSFW. But G+ hated the PDF or its hoster, and deleted a post with the link in my privately shared (=unlisted) Mismade Girl collection. Chilling effects, I dare not say here where I found it, for full credits see the full description in the scribd copy.


KOBIATA interview (September 2006)

"Roadside Ass-istance" from James Gunn's PG Porn

The Juliette Society (Huffington Post, 2013-08-27)



2019-02-07

All Tomorrow's Parties

X-TG – Afraid is brilliant. And fascinating, I've seen Nico in concert two or three years before the singer was born.😜




2019-02-06

YouTube backups

The left video belongs to a report by Sahrah Feldberg published in Las Vegas Weekly (2009-01-12), the right video was published in the now defunct Entertainment, Tech, and Culture (+ETCShow) YouTube channel as Creepy Text Adventure and contains a short interview with Sasha Grey about Open Windows:



So far I haven't figured out how to embed videos hosted by Google Photos on Blogger, but the links here cover all videos in the Mismade Girl G+ collection copied to my Google Photos account.

99 Luftballons

SOTU: Not as bad as in January, having fun with obscure record labels helps.  And I'm curious, will the next Like push the number here over 99, or is it frozen by sharing / posting?




2019-02-01

Transparency Report 2018

Nobody is going to delete my Chilling Effects parody:






Background, 9 to 5: Days in Porn is a notable  (enwiki terminology) documentary, and typically available on YouTube in mutilated versions to bypass the ContentID filters. The issue is copyright, not the four-letter word in the title. The MOV trailer is of course also not free, but intended to be shared as promo for the movie. Nobody including popular browsers knows what a MOV used to be, therefore I converted it to MP4 and uploaded it to YouTube as historic clip with credits and other related info.

The movie site also offers some bonus clips as FLV, and today that's worse than MOV. Therefore I converted one of the bonus clips to MP4, uploaded it to YouTube, and tagged it as NSFW, because less than one of the 44 seconds in this clip is NSFW. Wild guess, Deleted Scene in the title Deleted Scene: Sasha & Roxy Girls Talk wasn't helpful for the appeal, or YouTube uses a bot to reject appeals.

G+ backup strategy

My attempt to (ab)use WAYBACK as the place to backup my G+ experiments failed, only plain text content with public pictures works as expected. Vimeo or YouTube videos or playlists don't make it, shared photos or albums on Google Photos don't make it (403), and an unlisted (shared by link) G+ collection also doesn't work. Some historic sources in the Mismade Girl collection now got their first WAYBACK backup, better than nothing.

Two video + playlist collections on G+ can die (2 of 6), the content is available on YouTube. The Buzz collection is old news and can also die together with G+. Same procedure as for the nice Google Buzz when G+ killed it:
Actually I could now delete the last two remaining files in Google Drive, the vintage 2011 Buzz PDF is irrelevant, and I copied the very relevant 23C3 video to Google Photos. 50% (2+1 of 6) done by doing nothing, not counting "talk about it" here, that's the way (I like it).

The Archive 2018 collection consists of six posts with zero followers (after killing the auto-follow bit for both archives), SEO for YT stuff (2), SEO for other YT videos (1), WikiMedia battles (1 won, 1 lost), and if wannabe-"agents"  and other sharks don't grok why aspirant celebreties must have at least one CC0, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA photo for WikiMedia it's not my fault: CC-BY-NC-ND is not good enough. Two posts were public copies of unlisted posts: 2018 done.

The Archive 2019 collection isn't closed yet, but after it's clear that Google will delete G+ (instead of only freezing G+) I'll limit further posts to some ephemeral art  intended to die in April. The nine existing posts are SEO for playlists (7), videos (1), and how I figured out YouTube channel art and the G+ idea of hashtags: 2019 done, nothing to do for 5 of 6 collections.

The 34 posts in the remaining unlisted collection can be separated in three parts:
  1. Stuff already posted here under the new tag FoG (now split from IPOAD.)
  2. Stuff already covered on enwiki, commons, or WikiData.
  3. Various historic 2006…2018 videos + interviews not yet covered elsewhere.
Testing my copy from G+ to Blogger is easy theory below, it turned out to be not at all easy, G+ has no share on blogger feature (or already lost it while shutting down), and if the news source only offers share on FB or twitter some HTML 3.2 table layout is a PITA:


Art Tavana (2016-05-26) in LA Weekly

Samantha Grasso (2018-07-15) in TheDailyDot

Sasha Grey (2018-04-19) in a Topic Monologue

2019-01-21

Raise Your Flag (pt. 1)

After figuring out playlists and 800×450 the next obvious step is "good" old table layout with six cells for 384×216 iframes  representing the favourite music top 6 (as of today) in my Blogger profile at the bottom of all pages:


That was easy, replace any allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" by allow="" referrerpolicy="origin" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin", get rid of any moz… or webkit… cruft, possibly maybe add a title="…", and while at it put an ordinary link between <iframe …> and </iframe>. Thanks to MDN for their iframe-spell book. The next exercise in a planned Raise Your Flag (pt. 2) for favourite books will be harder, it could require hot linking of stolen cover art, maybe from enwiki, claiming "fair use" for "educational purposes".

About the title link for Raise Your Flag (pt. 1) inspired by Björk's Declare Independence, it's about an old roll your own scenario project for Freeciv 2.3, later replaced by roll your own nation (stealing the nice Aleut flag), arriving at roll your own ruleset for Freeciv 2.4…2.6. As shipped Freeciv has no nation group sisters, just flip core (about 60 nations with translations) to all (about 600 nations), then pick the classic group to find the amazones, or the imaginary group to find the hackers.

Aleut flag for the Freeciv Natives

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