Stop Embarrassing Yourself

If you enjoy words you’ll enjoy Wordle. If you don’t enjoy words, why are you reading this? Wordle creates tag clouds from whatever text you give it then lets you adjust the color, font and maximum number of words.

I put in the complete text of “Romeo and Juliete” and got this.

Don’t forget that tomorrow is download day. Download Firefox 3 tomorrow and help set a world record.

Someone finally got in to RevenantOnes.com as the guest user and posted the password (I don’t have it with me, I’ll post it later the password was #4ndd4ybr0u6h7b4ckmyni6h7# but you don’t need it anymore). I only had a few minutes to brows around this morning, but I noticed several users had a portion of, what I belived to be, a red kanji character as their avatar.

So I pieced them together and made this partial symbol.

I only had 7 of 9 symbols (Star Trek reference anyone?) but with the help of my handy-dandy kanji dictionary (and a lucky guess) I was able to identify it as SHIN / ma (眞), the symbol for true, genuine, real or right. (Could this be the answer to one of the gatekeepers questions? Are you real?)

Here are the two missing avatars (as drawn, badly, by me in MS Paint).

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The Red Seal, Chishio or The Rabbit Hole
The Thought Plickens

It turns out that revenantones.com is a web site with the same TB logo as chishio.jp.

It seems that this is a viral marketing campaign for a new HBO series called True Blood.
The countdown was to a live video chat with the gate keeper. The queue is to talk to her and try to convince her to give you access to the site (although some people have already gotten a peek inside).

Another site has popped up, bloodcopy.com. It seems to be part of the game masquerading as a fan site. It is a Word Press blog with a forum. You have to register to view the forum. One of the administrators links to YouTube video. They seem to be tracking our progress at either Unfiction or Imersion Unlimited.
Also they seem to have disabled the log in on revenantones.com (which leads me to believe no one has been granted access yet) and removed or protected the images that Screen Rant found yesterday.

And I just found Bloodcopy’s bookmarks on del.icio.us.

Update:

Beyond the Gatekeeper

This is awesome! Several people received mail containing strange symbols that appear to be some sort of code. There are four messages, each with a red seal that seems to be a key or another message. This web site is most likely linked to the messages.

I first heard about this from JC Hutchins. His Flickr page has the best images of the red symbols (which I have focused on after failing to figure anything out from the black symbols).

Here’s what I have so far from the red symbols.

Each symbol is three letters, every occurrence of a letter seems to be an exact copy, although sometimes mirrored and/or rotated.

The letter groups as far as I can tell are (clockwise from bottom):

NOT ONE SEN SEC SCO OMC OMR ERM ERV EEV ENV ENA ANN ANT NOT

The Ms could be Ws. The letters are repeated in groups of three so the first three symbols contain N. The second through fourth contain E.

If you continue the pattern (and wrap around the circle for the last two groups) you get:

NESCOMREVENATO (or NESCOWREVENATO with W instead of M)

I see several words:

NES / COM / REVENATO
NESCO / MR / E / VENATO
NE / SCO / MR / EVE / NATO

I guess it could be an anagram (or with a W).

Maestro Convene
Ace Mover Sonnet
Even A Stone Crow
A Crow Sonnet Eve

More discussion here and here.

Updates:

Beyond the Gatekeeper
The Thought Plickens

I just uploaded the first version of the site redesign. It still needs some tweaking, but over all I’m happy with it. The layout is nearly perfect, but almost all of the graphics are going to be tweaked or replaced. I’ve spent way too much time over the last few days working on the design and not enough time writing content.

And on the subject of content I’m going to add a Jargon File word of the day sometime next week. I’ll probably put it in the sidebar (which has already grown a little long) and make it available through an RSS feed.

Today is Teachers Day in Iran and National Education Day in Indonesia.
 

Todays word is:
edify - \ED-uh-fy\ - verb
To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

Happy Birthday to Lily Allen (23), David Beckham (33), Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (36) and Christine Baranski (56).

Happy Law Day. If your going to be a law-abiding citizen for only one day this year, it should be today. Law day was created in 1958 to counteract the more “communist” May Day, Labour Day and International Workers’ Day that are celebrated today throughout Europe in honor of the socioeconomic achievements of the international labour movement. Does that mean that Law Day is anti-worker?

Todays word is:
comity - \KOM-uh-tee\ - noun
1. An association of nations (or forces) for their mutual benefit;comity of nations.
2. The informal, voluntary recognition of the laws and decisions of another court.
3. Courtesy and considerate behaviour towards others; social harmony.

Happy birthday to Dan Regan (31), Julie Benz (38), Wes Anderson (39), D’arcy Wretzky (40), Marilyn Milian (47) and John Woo (52).

Today’s holidays have little or no comedic value, so today we celebrate Larry Niven.
 

There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
-Niven’s Law

Todays word is:
topic drift - \TAH-pik DRIFT\ - noun
1. The tendency of a thread to drift away from the original subject of discussion.
2. The results of that tendency.

Other birthdays today: Ashley Alexandra Dupré (23), Kirsten Dunst (26), Willie Nelson (75) and Cloris Leachman (82).

Go out and shake your groove thing, because today is International Dance Day.
 

Todays word is:
Gambol - \GAM-buhl\ - verb
To run and skip about playfully; to frolic

And a happy birthday to Uma Thurman (38), Andre Agassi (38), Master P (41), Michelle Pfeiffer (50), and Jerry Seinfeld (54).