Industrial music

It's not that I don't get industrial at all, in fact I loved Steh auf Berlin (1981), and it's still brilliant. Ignore the copyvio for a moment, download (incl. share a.k.a. embed) isn't illegal, only upload is verboten (cf. #SaveYourInternet), and unavailable on YouTube is as clear as it gets for music:

Berlin am Nullpunkt from Wolfgang Lange on Vimeo.

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Skipping Grünes Winkelkanu as possibly mavbe only me, time travel, 27y fast forward, the next master-piece was a recent blitz-promotion from unknown to top ten ever:

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OTOH I'm still lost with some of the Fifty Shades of Clickbait:

Meanwhile I almost like it, but two other remixes still beat me. Of course this won't stop me to juggle NPOV, OR, IAR, and other balls (excl. one too dangerous CRYSTALBALL) until the result is exactly as eclectic as it should be.

purl.net/xyzzy

Reviving this dead blog was possibly maybe a bad idea, but I'm still terrified to get a Twitter account to replace G+ in April, maybe Blogger is goodbad enough. At least it still works, and apart from Gmail I'm not aware of any other still working Google product. #GirlsGotGroove could be an argument for Twitter, "registering" hashtags is about as much fun as playing with WikiData.

The old websites are now all gone, R.I.P.: 2004, 2010, 2012. For the required legalese I trusted that "click on banner + click on imprint" covered your privacy also for this blog, i.e., there is no such thing as privacy on Google products, and if you allow third party cookies SoundCloud.com (example) will track you on any page with an SC iframe (=technical term for an embedded object, ignoring images + applets.)

SC politely asked to put that info into any affected privacy policy, so consider it done here for this blog until I get a static blogger page for some remotely legal legalese. I still don't do analytics or monetisation or cookies, not here, not on YouTube, nowhere, period. BTW, get an AdBlock, and disallow JavaScript on all sites complaining about it, c.f. chrome://settings/content/javascript.

DynDNS killed xyzzy.webhop.info some years ago, IIRC it was a redirect to my Google Apps account. Meanwhile Google also killed the target, good riddance.

DynDNS also killed xn--80akhbyknj4f.boldlygoingnowhere.org and xn--xyzzy.boldlygoingnowhere.org belonging to my i18n-fun pages here. That's sad, but the fun factor was possibly maybe limited to some folks I (virtually) met in IETF WGs. All is well if it ends well, SPF is a proper RFC now, the technically dubious (or ethically too ambitious) Sender-ID is dead, and I even produced a silly RFC to balance the IAB appeal.

I know it when I see it

Playlist I know it when I see it, how dare you, YouTube, censoring Björk is, broadly construed, blasphemous:

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Playlist Viral Videos, some kind of I love it not limited to music or heroines:

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Experimental playlist Extreme Uplifting, omitting Perfect as not enough noise:

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AOB: My subscriptions are public at the moment, with Semper Video as oldest, oddly I never subscribed to Semper Censeo. Update: The hardwired 425×344 looks like shit on my VAIO, width="96%" failed miserably, how about 800×450, mobile untested?

Catch you later… 💩

Whatever this playlist is, it is no buzz or music for G+, and has a label here.  YouTube's "share on blogger" feature is nice.

Updated one month later, the 99 Luftballons are now only at 101, YouTube rejoices in no further Blackery playlists on my channel, and why did I post the same playlist twice here? The point should be Get your song out of my head (quoting Let Me Be), before I try a Burn the Witch. Five days with Third Eye👁👁👁 in a loop were a seriously bad idea: Kids, don't try this at home.

Channel banner

New banner (attribution: Georges Seguin, licence: CC-BY-SA 3.0):

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Old banner (attribution: Christof Pins, licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0):

The banners are also available in a shared photo album with the hilarious Google search result (left side) in a readable size. The utter dubious licence is for the right side, I'd still say that this is PD-ineligible (no sweat), but IANAL.

Mismade Girl

Tracklist and background info on EARMILK (2016-03-03):

The model vs. DJ+writer battle ended in a model+writer truce.

Cute without ya

Testing the "share on blogger" feature with a start and end time:

19 extracted pictures in a photo album, CC-BY Emma Blackery.

Commons

At some point in time Blogger added a Google+ tracking script to this blog, and I've not yet figured out how to get rid of this spyware. If you have a browser extension blocking wannabe-social tracking sites such as ShareMeNot this won't affect you. While at it and FWIW I have replaced the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license for this blog by 4.0, removed the dead Google Reader links, and fixed some other minor blog template rot issues.
Recently Google Sites somehow managed to clobber embedded Google Docs videos with non-existing YouTube content. Just embedding the video again can fix this. Just for fun I try this also here—for the complete story see its page on my Google site:

Upgraded 2019 (almost 5y later) to <iframe allow="" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" referrerpolicy="origin" …>. I'm not updating older iframes in this blog if there are any.
Fun observation, blogger gave up on <p>…</p> and now firmly demands <div>…<br /><br /></div> for a simple paragraph: HTML 3.2 rulez, and I know it by heart (in its XHTML 1.0 transitional incarnation), now singing nah pop, no style. I strictly roots..

Some hours later, the docs.google video doesn't play, neither here nor on sites.google, revert doesn't help, view the video on WAYBACK or Google Photos (sic-K).

Corrigendum #9 clarifies noncharacter usage in Unicode

While waiting for the "missing" combining character forbidden to go with the new U+1F4A9 I'm slightly confused by Corrigendum #9: There is a small block of 32 non-characters in the BMP (plane 0), and each plane (0..16) ends with two non-characters, for an immutable (stability guaranteed) total of 66=32+2×17 non-character code points. It's good to know that converters from, say, UTF8 to UTF16LE, are not forced to handle non-characters as errors. Unlike surrogates, surrogates outside of UTF16 or not appearing in a surrogate pair to address code points outside of the BMP still are errors.

But one non-character U+FFFE (arguably one plus sixteen in all planes) has an important purpose, it is not a BOM, also known as signature.

UTF16 texts starting with hex. FEFF are supposed to be UTF16BE (big endian), while UTF16 texts starting with hex. FFFE are supposed to be UTF16LE (little endian). UTF16 texts starting with non-character U+FFFE instead of U+FEFF would be a major pile of poo.