One of the oldest known examples of steganography is the "shaved slave", as in the example of Histiaeus.  You shaved a slave's head, tattooed a message on it, waited for his hair to grow back, and then sent him off to carry your message, hoping that he wasn't intercepted and your recipient at his destination knew what to do with him.

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First answer.  Made entirely of win.  That is all.

(he comes.)

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(15:39:49) et: Any squirrelmail gurus around here ?

(15:53:22) Alaric: it's really hard to make mail out of squirrels.  They're furry and kinda squishy.  Makes it hard to link them together.

(15:54:55) Alaric: On the other hand, if you actually succeed, when you put your squirrelmail hauberk on you look like a Wookiee.

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With all due acknowledgments (and apologies) to Roger Zelazny:

Acknowledging first of all that I am not in any way an intermediary, authorized or otherwise, between yourself and that which may or may not be yourself, but with regard to which you may choose at this time of year to make observance or to shun such observance, or which you may ( Read more... )

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It has been brought to my attention that at least one African airline is so enthusiatic about getting South Africa to introduce daylight savings time that they have painted one of their aircraft in a daylight-savings-time promotional theme.

With this kind of enthusiasm, it becomes clear that the time for my masterwork has come.  I introduce to you ( Read more... )

There was an Act, you see, which was very popular with the Commons and the Lords, but did not meet the favor of the King.  And so Parliament voted on it, and it passed both houses, whereupon the Whip and the Prime Minister brought it to the King for his signature.  And the King looked at the Act, skimmed it briefly, declared "The measure fails," ( Read more... )

In the tradition (cough) of the kibble- ... er, excuse me, I mean kibi-, mibi- and gibi- prefixes foisted upon the computer industry by SI, I have today invented a new unit of data capacity, the chibibyte.  The proper usage of this unit is to denominate the capacity of any physically small storage device possessing "cute" exterior design and ( Read more... )

Commentary from the Bitmines:

oh christ...as if it weren't already a bad enough idea, the new Smurfs live action movie will be set in modern day NYC

and use the special smurf magic of "love" to rebuild the twin towers?

your storyline, while an attempt at satire, is sure to be far less stupid than whatever they settled on

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