The Chucksphere

While this is a gross oversimplification, glosses over perfectly reasonable debate that can be had, and uses some prejudiced language, it is also a very powerful summary of the Bush years:

“Let’s say this slowly: the Bush administration wanted to use 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq, even though Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. So it tortured people to make them confess to the nonexistent link.
There’s a word for this: it’s evil.”
–Paul Krugman

Well, having two Word Press blogs operating under the same domain is causing some weird things to happen vis-a-vis accessing the content for the older one. So, I’m copying all of the old Chuckese and making a static archive of it. It won’t be searchable, but neither is the one now. Formatting will take time, but it may be done by the time I’m out of school for the summer.

I took today to do my whenever-I-feel-like-it Neurocam search.

The Neurocam website is generally in the same format as the last time I mentioned.Still known as Neurocam X04, still has the ghost “protocol X04 initiated 10/07/08″ message in the bottom corner. The logo in the top left has changed, and has apparently gone through 6 revisions and is on its 7th version.

Most of the revisions to the X04vx.jpg file is resizing, so they were omitted.

The archives are password protected, which sucks because I wasn’t able to copy/analyze them yet. Also, they wil cease to take applications after 8pm on 22-April. I’d totally apply, but they have an overabundance of 18-22 year old men. No love for the college kids, eh?

The Yellow-1 website has changed radically. Rather thant the flash construct, there is merely an embedded background image.

When the source is viewed, this hidden message is revealed in the HTML:

<p><!--
Samuel: Did they at least follow up?
Agent9: You can say they've been dealing with some issues.
Agent9: It was a huge amount of data.
Samuel: So what does that mean anyway?
Agent9: You just want me to tell you what you're thinking.
Samuel: Well if it's true..
Agent9: It's just change, Sam, get used to it.
Agent9: Anyway, Mr. Holding expects your report no later than Tuesday.
Agent9: Maybe you'll find your place here after all.
-->

This is shaping up more and more like an Alternate Reality Game. I mean, this stuff is obviously meant to be found. “Samuel” and “Agent9″ could very well be “Dr Samuel and Agent Mandula” from the audio file on Neuroboards (see below).

Nautonier is password protected. The image is unavailable, but here’s the salvaged version of it from the Internet Archive.

Fiat Nox is the same as it has been in a long time.

But, according to the archive, it was different in 2006:

The Fiat Nox website as it appeared in 2006

The text is an email link to a chap named Iocus Severus. That particular image, which is identical to the Nautonier symbol is labeled as the FN glyph. The current symbol is called the FN Lamen. A Lamen is a mystical symbol or pendant worn to show the source of supernatural authority.