slowtrain
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An iguanadon right?
Thats the one.
I'm fairly sure that that was one of those early paleontology fuck ups and it never had those thumbs/they were the horns of some other beast or something, but still pretty cool.
An iguanadon right?
An iguanadon right?
And an iguana as well! Also ink caps.
In a somewhat different vein, the Where's Wally? books are brilliant too. Though I'm sure that goes without saying.
Didn't the Where's Wally guy copy it totally off this though?"In a somewhat different vein, the Where's Wally? books are brilliant too. Though I'm sure that goes without saying."
Another (almost) untranslatable document
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohonc_Codex
These things are brilliant. I love the way that the original (the Voynich one) is associated with Roger Bacon and John Dee - is it just me or is John Dee (supposedly) at the root of every weird thing that happened in the middle ages?
It would be Kelley who was an associate of John Dee - but that's Francis Bacon who is sometimes believed to have written Shakespeare's stuff - the rumours about the Voynich Manuscript (at least according to the wiki article) attribute it to Roger Bacon who lived a couple of hundred years earlier."There is that great bit in Foucaults Pendulum, where this dude (can't remember his name? Kelley?) is writing works for Shakespeare, who is writing works for Bacon, who is writing works for Dee, who is just sort of overlording the whole thing."
It would be Kelley who was an associate of John Dee - but that's Francis Bacon who is sometimes believed to have written Shakespeare's stuff - the rumours about the Voynich Manuscript (at least according to the wiki article) attribute it to Roger Bacon who lived a couple of hundred years earlier.
John Dee and Kelley and Francis Bacon were sixteenth/seventeenth century - it seems that the manuscript was created before that - John Dee's name onlhy apppears in the story as someone who might have owned it at one point after (Roger) Bacon wrote it and sold it into Europe. More likely he just turns up cos it makes a good story better.
Oh yeah, I was just talking about Dee always crops up around these things.
“In our analysis, we used an information-theoretical measure that quantifies the amount of information that the distribution of words bears about the sections where they appear in the text. Words that are uniformly scattered contribute little or no information, since their distribution cannot tag any specific section of the text. On the contrary, words that appear only in certain contextual domains contribute much information, because their distribution identifies those specific sections,” Dr Montemurro and Dr Zanette wrote in a paper published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE.
“The semantic networks we obtained clearly show that related words tend to share structure similarities. This also happens to a certain degree in real languages,” Dr Montemurro explained. “It unlikely that these features were simply ‘incorporated’ into the text to make a hoax more realistic, as most of the required academic knowledge of these structures did not exist at the time the Voynich manuscript was created.”