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Recently I??ve been considering the commonalities between the foundations of computer science and the philosophy of language. As the world becomes more reliant on, and yet paradoxically more oblivious to, the exponential explosion of computing devices it seems pertinent to take some time to consider the foundations of the field. Computer programming languages are a highly constrained form of language, with a strict syntax and semantics, human languages are much messier, but the fields ofLinguist
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Creator of Worlds by Andrew Zornoza Gary Gygax: July 27th 1938-March 4, 2008 Late autumn, the smell of decomposing leaves, water rushing through the creek. Three boys with mud and blood streaked forearms. Down jackets. Glasses left in the mire, recovered in the spring. A basement filled with Harlequin books, a coca-cola radio that is wired to turn on from the light switch at the top of the stairs. Balsa wood planes. Five dollars allowance wadded in a fist. Forbidden Planet. A fire in the
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript-siamesetwixOMG ADORABLE PLZ COME HOME WITH ME BARACK
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Envy, Groucho:34, 6007 YD Camel Toe was born in 5280 YD in Alexandria Egypt, named so due to his bilateral complete cleft palate: "camel toe" being the colloquial term for the birth defect in the area. In a bizarre twist, the Egyptian term at that time for a woman's vulva viewed through tight clothing was "hare lips". At age of 27 Camel Toe ventured into the desert, searching for the answers to the mysteries which had been plaguing his mind after twenty-three days he fell into a stupor, whic
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Something has been bothering me for a while now. And this morning it came to a profanity-hollering head, which means it??s time for a rant. But first let me ask you a few questions: When you step up to the checkout counter at your local grocery store, do you have to fill out an application to make your purchase? No, just hand over a fistful of green and walk out with your grocery bags. And how about the electronic store? Same story right? Now what about the post office? Do you need to your info
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History??s Mysteries as Inspiration March 7th, 2008 One day at work I took a break and experimented with one of these big social bookmarking sites, Digg.com, a little bit. I came across this great blog post: Top 10 Most Overlooked Mysteries in History. This thing has a lot of great untold stories in it. France??s Stone-Henge! Untranslatable Medical Textbooks! Lost civilizations! As a fiction writer, I could spend all day just thinking of crazy plot lines woven out of these unexplained pheno
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Some tasty bite-sized morsels for you: don't eat them all at once, though... The April 2008 edition of sci-fi monthly Analog has a 10,000-word Voynich-based story, "Guaranteed Not to Turn Pink in the Can" by Thomas R. Dulski. When super-bright billionaire's daughter Pamela Roderick writes an academic book on the idea of UFOs, people are surprisingly OK: but when her second book claims that the Voynich Manuscript describes 15th century humans being taken on a journey into space, the people aroun
voynichnews.blogspot.com
Here's a nice Voynich-themed oddity from the much-frayed edge between C.P.Snow's "Two Cultures" of art and science. A contemporary painter called Shardcore explores the history of science by painting famous scientists and historical scientific objects: and was so entertained by the notion that Ethel Lilian Boole - the daughter of the famous logician George Boole - came to own the Voynich Manuscript she married Wilfrid Voynich, of course that he decided to paint a picture celebrating it: and y
voynichnews.blogspot.com
Yesterday, I posted up a low-resolution image of some Codice Olindo ciphertext: it appears to be a set of slightly-accessorized 8-directional arrows and a few double-headed arrows, plus some additional shapes punctuation?. It struck me when I woke up this morning that - statistics aside - this might simply be a kind of arrow-based pigpen cipher, where the arrows point to the appropriate corner of the 3x3, and the accessorization indicates which 3x3 block to refer to. Typically, modern-day c
voynichnews.blogspot.com
This is a little later than usual, but so be it. There will be a roundup at the start of April, most likely, rather than two roundups for March, although I'll still call it a March Roundup. I got behind due to finals. In any case, here are a load of links that might be of interest to you all more to come: Universe TodayGalileo returns to the Vatican. Yup, they're putting up a statue for him. About damn time. On the subject of Galileo, New Scientist had a controversial question about whether or
wisb.blogspot.com
It's been a rollercoaster of a day for me at the Warburg Institute on the Early Modern Research Techniques course, like being given the keys to the world twice but having them taken away three times. I'll try to explain... Paul Taylor kicked Day Two's morning off in fine style, picking up the baton from Francois Quiviger's drily laconic Day One introduction to all things Warburgian. My first epiphany of the day came on the stairs going up to the Photographic Collection: an aside from Paul that
voynichnews.blogspot.com
Various kinds of books might be called unreadable. There are books we can't read yet but hope to someday. There are books that decomposition or scruffy composition have rendered indecipherable. There are books that were only ever meant to 'look like' meaningful texts. There's the Voynich Manuscript, which may be any combination of the above. Then there are books which are unreadable in the more mundane sense of simply being badly written??in someone's judgment. Others are unreadable because of
faceofthemoon.blogspot.com
Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone Indiana Jones For centuries the lust for wealth and immortality has driven men mad. Now Indiana Jones is called to London to recover an ancient alchemist's manuscript rumored to contain the formula both for turning lead into gold and granting its owner eternal life. Certain that a missing British alchemist and an insane Renaissance scholar are involved in the theft, Indy??along with the alchemist's beautiful sister??travels to Rome, and straight into
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In 1912 Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare-book dealer, made the find of a lifetime in the library of a Jesuit college near Rome: a manuscript some 230 pages long, written in an unusual script and richly illustrated with bizarre images of plants, heavenly spheres and bathing women. 3 Votes
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Having just worked my way through Vol III of Lynn Thorndike's "History of Magic & Experimental Science", I thought I'd give my reading eyes a rest with some fiction: and so turned to "Vellum" by Australian writer Matt Rubinstein, a 2007-vintage Voynich-themed novel I mentioned here before. The story revolves around Jack, a translator/subtitler who, while working on a near-untranslatable Russian film, stumbles upon an unreadable and unapologetically Voynich-like manuscript. Many of the oth
voynichnews.blogspot.com
Some European Voynichy things that have caught my eye recently: make of them what you will... A 3-part Spanish-language documentary on the VMs written by Eric Frattini, and viewable online just click the big green buttons. Voynich News regulars will recognize him as the author of Voynich-themed novel "El Quinto Mandamiento" the fifth commandment, which I touched upon here. Here's some Italian poetry, including a couple of poems apparently on the Voynich hence the image of the VMs' nine-ro
voynichnews.blogspot.com
It's a nice historical detective story, one kicked off by John Dee, Frances Yates' favourite Elizabethan 'magus' though I personally suspect Dee's 'magic' was probably less 'magickal' than it might appear, when he claimed to have told an angel that his "great and long desyre hath byn to be hable to read those tables of Soyga". Dee lost his precious copy of the "Book of Soyga" but then managed to find it again: when subsequently Elias Ashmole owned it, he noted that its incipit starting word
voynichnews.blogspot.com
I just stumbled across part 1 and part 2 of a long-ish Dutch blog entry on hoax theories of the Voynich Manuscript, specifically Gordon Rugg's Cardan grille nonsense. If, like me, you don't speak Dutch, note that Google Translate's Dutch-to-English translation appears not to be working, and so use FreeTranslation.com instead which does work fine. Actually, I do thanks to Tanya have a single Amsterdam survival phrase, which I learnt long before I was married: "Zeker niet, mevrouw: ik word ge
voynichnews.blogspot.com
"In 1912 Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare-book dealer, made the find of a lifetime in the library of a Jesuit college near Rome: a manuscript some 230 pages long, written in an unusual script and richly illustrated with bizarre images of plants, heavenly spheres and bathing women. " Read this article.
www.rarebooknews.com
A fun read - The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript: Voynich asked the leading cryptographers of his day to decode the odd script, which did not match that of any known language. But despite 90 years of effort by some of the world??s best code breakers, no one has been able to decipher Voynichese, as the script has become known. The nature and origin of the manuscript remain a mystery. The failure of the code-breaking attempts has raised the suspicion that there may not be any cipher to crack.
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reiki masters
qigong masters
war of the worlds 2005
peanuts wallpaper
robin williams on golf
christ of the ozarks
Rent divx trailers
bert and ernie youtube
The Booles and the Voynich manuscript2008
Recently I??ve been considering the commonalities between the foundations of computer science and the philosophy of language. As the world becomes more reliant on, and yet paradoxically more oblivious to, the exponential explosion of computing devices it seems pertinent to take some time to consider the foundations of the field. Computer programming languages are a highly constrained form of language, with a strict syntax and semantics, human languages are much messier, but the fields ofLinguist
www.shardcore.org
sesame street video
tufts admissions
robin williams wife
payperclick that pays in paypal
prickly city comic strip
nerf gun recon
charlotte rampling the night porter
In Which There Is No Defense Against the Onslaught of Reality
Creator of Worlds by Andrew Zornoza Gary Gygax: July 27th 1938-March 4, 2008 Late autumn, the smell of decomposing leaves, water rushing through the creek. Three boys with mud and blood streaked forearms. Down jackets. Glasses left in the mire, recovered in the spring. A basement filled with Harlequin books, a coca-cola radio that is wired to turn on from the light switch at the top of the stairs. Balsa wood planes. Five dollars allowance wadded in a fist. Forbidden Planet. A fire in the
thisrecording.wordpress.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript-siamesetwixOMG ADORABLE PLZ COME HOME WITH ME BARACK
sidewayspony.com
Generations Series: Camel Toe
Envy, Groucho:34, 6007 YD Camel Toe was born in 5280 YD in Alexandria Egypt, named so due to his bilateral complete cleft palate: "camel toe" being the colloquial term for the birth defect in the area. In a bizarre twist, the Egyptian term at that time for a woman's vulva viewed through tight clothing was "hare lips". At age of 27 Camel Toe ventured into the desert, searching for the answers to the mysteries which had been plaguing his mind after twenty-three days he fell into a stupor, whic
baronvonhoopla.blogspot.com
Inconvenient Convenience: Signs Your Retail Website Sucks
Something has been bothering me for a while now. And this morning it came to a profanity-hollering head, which means it??s time for a rant. But first let me ask you a few questions: When you step up to the checkout counter at your local grocery store, do you have to fill out an application to make your purchase? No, just hand over a fistful of green and walk out with your grocery bags. And how about the electronic store? Same story right? Now what about the post office? Do you need to your info
brianhewitt.wordpress.com
History??s Mysteries as Inspiration
History??s Mysteries as Inspiration March 7th, 2008 One day at work I took a break and experimented with one of these big social bookmarking sites, Digg.com, a little bit. I came across this great blog post: Top 10 Most Overlooked Mysteries in History. This thing has a lot of great untold stories in it. France??s Stone-Henge! Untranslatable Medical Textbooks! Lost civilizations! As a fiction writer, I could spend all day just thinking of crazy plot lines woven out of these unexplained pheno
www.thistoowillpass.com
Voynich news-bites...
Some tasty bite-sized morsels for you: don't eat them all at once, though... The April 2008 edition of sci-fi monthly Analog has a 10,000-word Voynich-based story, "Guaranteed Not to Turn Pink in the Can" by Thomas R. Dulski. When super-bright billionaire's daughter Pamela Roderick writes an academic book on the idea of UFOs, people are surprisingly OK: but when her second book claims that the Voynich Manuscript describes 15th century humans being taken on a journey into space, the people aroun
voynichnews.blogspot.com
Boole / Voynich Manuscript painting...
Here's a nice Voynich-themed oddity from the much-frayed edge between C.P.Snow's "Two Cultures" of art and science. A contemporary painter called Shardcore explores the history of science by painting famous scientists and historical scientific objects: and was so entertained by the notion that Ethel Lilian Boole - the daughter of the famous logician George Boole - came to own the Voynich Manuscript she married Wilfrid Voynich, of course that he decided to paint a picture celebrating it: and y
voynichnews.blogspot.com
Codice Olindo, cipher thoughts...
Yesterday, I posted up a low-resolution image of some Codice Olindo ciphertext: it appears to be a set of slightly-accessorized 8-directional arrows and a few double-headed arrows, plus some additional shapes punctuation?. It struck me when I woke up this morning that - statistics aside - this might simply be a kind of arrow-based pigpen cipher, where the arrows point to the appropriate corner of the 3x3, and the accessorization indicates which 3x3 block to refer to. Typically, modern-day c
voynichnews.blogspot.com
SF/F Links: March Roundup Part One
This is a little later than usual, but so be it. There will be a roundup at the start of April, most likely, rather than two roundups for March, although I'll still call it a March Roundup. I got behind due to finals. In any case, here are a load of links that might be of interest to you all more to come: Universe TodayGalileo returns to the Vatican. Yup, they're putting up a statue for him. About damn time. On the subject of Galileo, New Scientist had a controversial question about whether or
wisb.blogspot.com
Warwick/Warburg course 2008, Day Two...
It's been a rollercoaster of a day for me at the Warburg Institute on the Early Modern Research Techniques course, like being given the keys to the world twice but having them taken away three times. I'll try to explain... Paul Taylor kicked Day Two's morning off in fine style, picking up the baton from Francois Quiviger's drily laconic Day One introduction to all things Warburgian. My first epiphany of the day came on the stairs going up to the Photographic Collection: an aside from Paul that
voynichnews.blogspot.com
If Someone Wrote an Absolutely Unreadable Book, How Could Anyone Confirm It?
Various kinds of books might be called unreadable. There are books we can't read yet but hope to someday. There are books that decomposition or scruffy composition have rendered indecipherable. There are books that were only ever meant to 'look like' meaningful texts. There's the Voynich Manuscript, which may be any combination of the above. Then there are books which are unreadable in the more mundane sense of simply being badly written??in someone's judgment. Others are unreadable because of
faceofthemoon.blogspot.com
Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone Indiana Jones For centuries the lust for wealth and immortality has driven men mad. Now Indiana Jones is called to London to recover an ancient alchemist's manuscript rumored to contain the formula both for turning lead into gold and granting its owner eternal life. Certain that a missing British alchemist and an insane Renaissance scholar are involved in the theft, Indy??along with the alchemist's beautiful sister??travels to Rome, and straight into
theheadsup.com
The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
In 1912 Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare-book dealer, made the find of a lifetime in the library of a Jesuit college near Rome: a manuscript some 230 pages long, written in an unusual script and richly illustrated with bizarre images of plants, heavenly spheres and bathing women. 3 Votes
antiquarianbooknews.com
Review of "Vellum"...
Having just worked my way through Vol III of Lynn Thorndike's "History of Magic & Experimental Science", I thought I'd give my reading eyes a rest with some fiction: and so turned to "Vellum" by Australian writer Matt Rubinstein, a 2007-vintage Voynich-themed novel I mentioned here before. The story revolves around Jack, a translator/subtitler who, while working on a near-untranslatable Russian film, stumbles upon an unreadable and unapologetically Voynich-like manuscript. Many of the oth
voynichnews.blogspot.com
Voynich euro-miscellany...
Some European Voynichy things that have caught my eye recently: make of them what you will... A 3-part Spanish-language documentary on the VMs written by Eric Frattini, and viewable online just click the big green buttons. Voynich News regulars will recognize him as the author of Voynich-themed novel "El Quinto Mandamiento" the fifth commandment, which I touched upon here. Here's some Italian poetry, including a couple of poems apparently on the Voynich hence the image of the VMs' nine-ro
voynichnews.blogspot.com
The Book of Soyga, revisited...
It's a nice historical detective story, one kicked off by John Dee, Frances Yates' favourite Elizabethan 'magus' though I personally suspect Dee's 'magic' was probably less 'magickal' than it might appear, when he claimed to have told an angel that his "great and long desyre hath byn to be hable to read those tables of Soyga". Dee lost his precious copy of the "Book of Soyga" but then managed to find it again: when subsequently Elias Ashmole owned it, he noted that its incipit starting word
voynichnews.blogspot.com
Dutch Voynich hoax bloggery...
I just stumbled across part 1 and part 2 of a long-ish Dutch blog entry on hoax theories of the Voynich Manuscript, specifically Gordon Rugg's Cardan grille nonsense. If, like me, you don't speak Dutch, note that Google Translate's Dutch-to-English translation appears not to be working, and so use FreeTranslation.com instead which does work fine. Actually, I do thanks to Tanya have a single Amsterdam survival phrase, which I learnt long before I was married: "Zeker niet, mevrouw: ik word ge
voynichnews.blogspot.com
The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript
"In 1912 Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare-book dealer, made the find of a lifetime in the library of a Jesuit college near Rome: a manuscript some 230 pages long, written in an unusual script and richly illustrated with bizarre images of plants, heavenly spheres and bathing women. " Read this article.
www.rarebooknews.com
The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript
A fun read - The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript: Voynich asked the leading cryptographers of his day to decode the odd script, which did not match that of any known language. But despite 90 years of effort by some of the world??s best code breakers, no one has been able to decipher Voynichese, as the script has become known. The nature and origin of the manuscript remain a mystery. The failure of the code-breaking attempts has raised the suspicion that there may not be any cipher to crack.
engineering.curiouscatblog.net