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	<title>Cipher Mysteries &#187; Gordon Rugg</title>
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		<title>A brief history of generated texts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/04/a-brief-history-of-generated-texts</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2011/11/04/a-brief-history-of-generated-texts#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just weakened your will to live by exposing you to the word heteroscedasticity , I thought I&#8217;d now throw some more paraffin onto your wordy fires. Is the Voynich Manuscript&#8230; &#8230;an &#8220;ergodic text&#8221;? According to Espen Aarseth [as discussed on the Grand Text Auto website], ergodic literature is where &#8220;nontrivial effort is required to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Having just weakened your will to live by exposing you to the word heteroscedasticity   , I thought I&#8217;d now throw some more paraffin onto your wordy fires. Is the Voynich Manuscript&#8230;
&#8230;an &#8220;ergodic text&#8221;?
According to Espen Aarseth [as discussed on the Grand Text Auto website], ergodic literature is where &#8220;nontrivial effort is required to [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>&#8220;Weird or What?&#8221; Voynich segment&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/07/weird-or-what-voynich-segment</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2010/05/07/weird-or-what-voynich-segment#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 23:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Weird or What?&#8221;&#8216;s Desperate Housewives Cocaine Mummies episode came and went in its own breathless, deathless way, a strangely mismatched mixture of gravelly voiceover (exuding Danikenesque enthusiasm) and static talking heads (with more than a frisson of frozen-in-the-headlights). Purely for review purposes, I grabbed my copy from a terrrrribly slow torrent (the 13-minute Voynich segment started at 19:45), but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;Weird or What?&#8221;&#8216;s Desperate Housewives Cocaine Mummies episode came and went in its own breathless, deathless way, a strangely mismatched mixture of gravelly voiceover (exuding Danikenesque enthusiasm) and static talking heads (with more than a frisson of frozen-in-the-headlights). Purely for review purposes, I grabbed my copy from a terrrrribly slow torrent (the 13-minute Voynich segment started at 19:45), but [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Das Voynich-Rätsel &#8211; now viewable online (but hurry!)</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/11/voynich-ratsel-now-viewable-online-but-hurry</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/12/11/voynich-ratsel-now-viewable-online-but-hurry#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard SantaColoma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andreas Sulzer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, the Austrian Voynich documentary we&#8217;ve been waiting so eagerly for &#8211; and you don&#8217;t even need to have a satellite dish to watch it (as long as you hurry, it&#8217;ll probably only be online for a few days). (Hint and tip: if you click on the diagonal arrow button just above the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here it is, the Austrian Voynich documentary we&#8217;ve been waiting so eagerly for &#8211; and you don&#8217;t even need to have a satellite dish to watch it (as long as you hurry, it&#8217;ll probably only be online for a few days).
(Hint and tip: if you click on the diagonal arrow button just above the video, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Voynich Summer Camp IM, transcript of session #2&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/29/voynich-summer-camp-im-transcript-of-session-2</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/29/voynich-summer-camp-im-transcript-of-session-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elias Schwerdtfeger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabriel Landini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Claston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philip Neal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As promised (though a little later than planned), here&#8217;s the transcript of the second IM session I ran at the 2009 Voynich Summer Camp in Budapest. Not quite as meaty as the first IM session, but some OK stuff in there all the same. Enjoy! [11:56:09] NP: Okeydokey, ready when you are [11:56:18] vc: Okedykokedy [11:56:27] [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As promised (though a little later than planned), here&#8217;s the transcript of the second IM session I ran at the 2009 Voynich Summer Camp in Budapest. Not quite as meaty as the first IM session, but some OK stuff in there all the same. Enjoy!
[11:56:09] NP: Okeydokey, ready when you are
[11:56:18] vc: Okedykokedy
[11:56:27] NP: 
[11:56:35] vc: [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Nick Pelling online radio interview with Red Ice Creations&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/09/23/nick-pelling-online-radio-interview-with-red-ice-creations#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adam McLean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astrology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Copernicus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacobus de Tepenecz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johannes Trithemius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Dee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rene Zandbergen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rudolf II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilfrid Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Just to let you know that a Voynich Manuscript radio interview I gave a few days ago (either download it, or click on the Flash Player play button [half a screen down on the right] to hear it) has just gone live on the Red Ice Creations website. They wanted me to chat about all [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Voynich Cipher for code-breakers&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/06/the-voynich-cipher-for-code-breakers</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/06/the-voynich-cipher-for-code-breakers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beinecke Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Theories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Though (as was apparent from the rapid social media take-up of yesterday&#8217;s XKCD webcomic) the Voynich Manuscript is now firmly wedged in the cultural mind, sadly the level of debate on it is still stuck circa 1977 &#8211; and if anything, Gordon Rugg&#8217;s foolish &#8220;hoax&#8221; claims have helped to keep it there. But it is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Though (as was apparent from the rapid social media take-up of yesterday&#8217;s XKCD webcomic) the Voynich Manuscript is now firmly wedged in the cultural mind, sadly the level of debate on it is still stuck circa 1977 &#8211; and if anything, Gordon Rugg&#8217;s foolish &#8220;hoax&#8221; claims have helped to keep it there.
But it is demonstrably [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Oera Linda Book: a right proper hoax, I say&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/07/the-oera-linda-book-a-right-proper-hoax-i-say</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/04/07/the-oera-linda-book-a-right-proper-hoax-i-say#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dan Burisch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Historical Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leon Battista Alberti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bacon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=1176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I think you can split historical revisionists into two broad camps: (a) desperate mainstream historians looking outwards to fringe subjects for a reputation-making cash-cow book; and (b) clever writers on the fringes who appropriate the tropes and tools of history to construct a kind of literary outsider art that is (almost) indistinguishable from history. That is, revisionism [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I think you can split historical revisionists into two broad camps: (a) desperate mainstream historians looking outwards to fringe subjects for a reputation-making cash-cow book; and (b) clever writers on the fringes who appropriate the tropes and tools of history to construct a kind of literary outsider art that is (almost) indistinguishable from history. That is, revisionism [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Japanese Voynich academic&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/24/japanese-voynich-academic</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/11/24/japanese-voynich-academic#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cipher People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In glamorous Salford last year, the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history held a conference called Codices and Community: Networks of Reading and Production, 1350-1550. Just after the &#8221;Weird Science&#8221; panel chaired by Toshi Takamiya, there was a talk by Teru Agata (an associate professor at Asia University, a private university [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In glamorous Salford last year, the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history held a conference called Codices and Community: Networks of Reading and Production, 1350-1550. Just after the &#8221;Weird Science&#8221; panel chaired by Toshi Takamiya, there was a talk by Teru Agata (an associate professor at Asia University, a private university [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pseudo-science and The Curse of the Voynich&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/13/pseudo-science-and-the-curse-of-the-voynich</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/13/pseudo-science-and-the-curse-of-the-voynich#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antonio Averlino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athanasius Kircher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Tiltman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nick Pelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Curse of the Voynich]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Klaus Schmeh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open kimono]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A German Voynich article by Klaus Schmeh just pinged on the Cipher Mysteries radar screen: the ten-second summary is that in an interesting mix of observations and opinions, Schmeh clearly enjoys playing the skeptic trump card whenever he can (though he still fails to win the hand). In some ways, Schmeh&#8217;s bias is no bad thing at all: authors like [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A German Voynich article by Klaus Schmeh just pinged on the Cipher Mysteries radar screen: the ten-second summary is that in an interesting mix of observations and opinions, Schmeh clearly enjoys playing the skeptic trump card whenever he can (though he still fails to win the hand).
In some ways, Schmeh&#8217;s bias is no bad thing at all: authors like Rugg [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The wisdom of a crowded forum&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/12/the-wisdom-of-a-crowded-forum</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2008/10/12/the-wisdom-of-a-crowded-forum#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nickpelling</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Burisch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Rugg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sergio Toresella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voynich Manuscript]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Romaine Newbold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[f34r]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facepunch Studios]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the one hand, &#8220;Linus&#8217; Law&#8221; asserts that if enough people collaborate to solve a problem, it becomes simple &#8211; hence open source software. On the other, even though more people have eyeballed the Voynich Manuscript in the last two years (thanks to the Beinecke Library&#8217;s scans posted on the Internet) than in the previous four centuries, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On the one hand, &#8220;Linus&#8217; Law&#8221; asserts that if enough people collaborate to solve a problem, it becomes simple &#8211; hence open source software. On the other, even though more people have eyeballed the Voynich Manuscript in the last two years (thanks to the Beinecke Library&#8217;s scans posted on the Internet) than in the previous four centuries, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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