 About Ainur ElmgrenAge: a quarter of a century Sex: XX Gender: female Race: Against time Ethnicity: Allright, if you insist... 62,5% Finnish, 25% Mishär Tatar, 12,5% Kale ( Finnish Gypsy). Citizen of Sweden. Horoscope: Pisces, year of the Goat Occupation: Ph.D. student at the Department of History, Lund University. Freelance cartoonist and illustrator. Writes for Bild & Bubbla magazine. Nourishment: rye bread, mediterranean yoghurt, piroshki, peremech, sushi, octopodes, honey, tea, wasabi, chocolate, halloumi, broccoli, vodka, avocado, natto, any combination of the above. Turnons: The 1920's, Orcs, Finns, Russia, Socialist memorabilia, helicopters, the Cthulhu mythos, chocolate, the German language, libraries and book shops, magazines with lots of colourful pictures, epic comics, Japanese clothing, swords, lots of pillows with tassels. Turnoffs: Racism, chauvinism (nationalist or gender-based), big capitalism, philistines, boors, bigots, McDonalds, fat-free yoghurt, missionaries (for any religion, ideology or music style). Friends: People with whom I can share a moment of silence, with a quirky sense of humour, a tolerant mind, a tough skin and a big heart. Doggies!Enemies: Intolerant, insecure people who pick on those who seem weaker. Fundamentalists of any colour and creed.
OLD-TURKIC DEITIES Rafael BEZERTINOV From his book TENGRIANIZM – RELIGION OF TÜRKS AND MONGOLS Moon (Ai). Ancient Türks’ mythology regarded Moon as a daughter of Sky God Tengri and Earth. They perceived the goddess Moon dually: She frightened them and at the same time they loved Her.
The night is darkness, when the malicious spirits emerge from all holes. The rituals and hypnotic sessions of witches were always conducted according to the phases of the Moon. At night the illnesses amplified, causing more often deaths at this time. Robberies, murders are done mainly at night. On the other hand, the Türks trusted the magic force of the Moon. She was a sole night lantern. To please Moon those born during full moon were given names as such: Aisylu, Aituly, Ainir, Aizirek, Ainaz, etc. [or Ainur! - Ainur] The three phases of the moon also had their signs. It was believed that at ‘ai naazy’ (new moon) the moon symbolized a young girl, pure and modest. At ‘ai toly’, ‘tuly ai’ (complete moon) Moon personified a mature woman – mother. In this period she is good-natured and favorable. At ‘ai karty’ (old moon) the Moon aged, became wise, but quarrelsome and malicious. Before death Moon reigned in absolutely dark night. In these three nights, it was believed, life and death meet together. The old Moon died, a new one was born, and together with Her a new life, new cycle, new round was born. I found this interesting text in The Tatar Gazette. Read more about Tatars, a Turkic people, on my Tatarstan page.
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Everybody should know about this, so I will post this on all of my blogs. It took me a long night's googling to find, so I want to spread the word. Yes, it is possible to HIDE COMMENTS ON YOUTUBE. YouTube
recently "improved" their notoriously spam- and idiot-riddled comment
system by adding
a comment-rating feature, as well as a
drop-down menu that lets you choose if you want to view all comments,
those rated +10 points, those rated +5 points, those rated 0 or more,
-5 or more, or -10 or more. Now wait a minute - how the hell is this
division supposed to be useful? Who cares enough
about the comments? I sure as hell don't. The new system doesn't keep
spammers away, but it makes it a lot easier for idiots to spam, troll
and spout hate by sabotaging other people's discussions. I don't go to YouTube for trolling social
interaction, I go there for content, so I choose the option "view
comments rated 10 or more". However, YouTube doesn't provide any way of
saving my settings. Each time when I return to the site, I have to risk
facing stupid comments under interesting videos, and even when I turn
off the comments, I can see the comment thread under the video frame.
Some people's nicknames alone should be spam-filtered. Luckily, there's
a solution. Note: It's for Firefox
users. Step 1: Install the latest version of Greasemonkey,
a Firefox extension that helps you to use a lot of nifty little scripts
for your special internet needs. Step 2: Go to userscripts.org and download No
YouNoobs. Restart Firefox. Presto! I found this easy method thanks to plodding through a
boring Digg diskussion. I guess Digg has its
brights sides after all! Mashable has 12
more useful ideas on how to use Greasemonkey
to make YouTube work better.
Posted at 01:58 am by ainur
 | | | Turukhtan
October 2, 2007 07:25 PM PDT
It could be I haven't read the comments of videos that incite too explosive arguments ... I guess I somehow tend to subconsciously ignore them when I sense that the comments will be nothing but rubbish, like at Englishrussia.com. | |
| | | Ana
October 2, 2007 01:07 PM PDT
Well, the thumbs up-thumbs down-idea is borrowed from digg.com, where it actually seems to work. I guess it also works if the YouTube-video is aimed at a reasonably narrow segment of the audience - that is, people find it because they know what they want. With this plugin, you can simply choose yourself if you want to read the discussion.
I have seen some discussions where it doesn't work, when people actually click thumbs-down for comments that are reasonable and balanced, and thumbs-up for troll comments. And if you have a polarized audience, they are just going to vote down each other's arguments (imagine an Israel-Palestine debate).
There's a time and a place for that, and it's not in my face and in my leisure time... | |
| | | Turukhtan
September 29, 2007 03:02 PM PDT
I often read the comments at YouTube. Sometimes I find interesting extra information among all the noise, sometimes it's just entertaining (like the Turks vs. Mongols disputes under Tuvan music clips).
I've noticed that for some reason the ratings do work - somehow I haven't seen any occurrences of people voting down each other because of differing points of view. People who get a thumb down get it because they are rude. People who get thumbs up get it because they contribute to the content. | |
| | | Mikko
September 29, 2007 12:00 PM PDT
Indeed: http://xkcd.com/202/ | |
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