Fourier series and hybrid images:
“That’s not different wavelengths of light; that’s different wavelengths of the variation across the image. And it could be done fairly easily by anyone with knowledge of Fourier series and access to decent image manipulation software. But I think the images to be merged would have to be fairly similar to each other: Converting one block of text to another block of text is probably outside the range of possibility.” (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=419079)

Barthes: “Roland Barthes wrote a book in called ‘S/Z’ in which he put forward multiple readings of one short story. Later he published ‘The Pleasure of the Text’ – I think the title is telling.” (http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/gwy4e/gary_paulsen_on_what_the_author_thinks_versus/)

Algae, light, mice, mind control (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_optigenetics/all/1) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88TVQZUfYGw)

Similar: (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091015123552.htm) (http://singularityhub.com/2011/01/26/harvard-controls-the-minds-of-worms-with-lasers-video/)

Optogenetics and cyborgs (http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_optigenetics/3/)

Cracked article (http://www.cracked.com/article_19191_7-bizarre-advances-in-animal-cyborg-technology.html)

Foer, Joshua. Moonwalking With Einstein. New York: Penguin Press, 2011.
“And crucially, the more you know, the easier it is to know more. Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.” (pg 209)
“Thomas Bradwardine…described a means of memoria sillabarum, or ‘memory by syllables,’ which could be used to memorize words that were hard to visualize. Bradwardine’s system involved breaking the word into its constituant syllables and then creating an image for each syllable based on another word that begins with that syllable…In order to memorize a word by sound, its meaning has to be completely dismissed.” (pgs 131-2)

“Classified data has been digitally encoded since before computers were invented. Spies have used book ciphers for centuries to send numeric correspondence that can only be read when paired with the proper text. Bibles make good code books because of the varience between printed editions and the numbering of chapter and verse.” (Burn Notice, Season 4, episode 9. “Center of the Storm”) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cipher)

“‘Amour peut moult, argent peut tot’ (love may do much, but money more). These are some of the sayings by which peasants characterized marriage in sixteenth-century France.” (Davis, Natalie Zemon. The Return of Martin Guerre. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. pg 1)

This post was conceived on 30 April 2009, if you can believe that. I’ve really lost all of my steam regarding all this conspiracy nonsense. I haven’t visited The May Day Mystery in over a year, didn’t even check on the posting last May. I looked up Neurocam on a lark the other day, found two new sources, and remembered I had this lying around. So here’s a dump of some links, to get them out of my “drafts” pile.

Primary Sources

Neurocam (password protected)

Yellow-1

Fiat Nox (same old)

Nautonier (password protected)

Neuroboards (down)

Who is Robert Henley? (via Wayback)

Robin Hely’s CV (via Wayback)

Boycott Innocence (via Wayback)

Operative Blogs

Jumping on the Bandwagon (Graham)

The Neurocam Files (also Graham)

Trysting Fields / Art I Like (Teigan)

Tript’s Neurocam Archives (Ego Tript) (via Wayback Machine)

Ego2tript (Ego Tript?) (via Wayback Machine)

Xade (Xade)

Maharishi to the Operatives (Maharishi)

In Terminals (Joel)

Misc. Secondary

Entering the Shadowy World of Neurocam

Unfiction Forums

Above Top Secret Forums

[EDIT: 24 January 2011 - Thought the problem was the links to the password protected sites, removed them, still nothing.]

Lost 6.17 The End
How SHOULD Lost have Ended?
Sci Fi oriented shows that turn metaphysical in the end like Lost & BSG. Are you OK with this?
Someone from Bad Robot’s take on the Finale *Updated*

Chuck’s World O’ Wargames: LOL. Why do I still have this?

Small Island Nation: Moved to on-site Wiki, which was spam-botted into oblivion. No movement made since August.

The Wildcat Code: Hard to keep up with, due to the demands of college. Still haven’t gotten the December ad finished.

One bright spot: I now have a forum where I can voice my foreign policy opinions. I wrote a peice for the Roosevelt Institutue which made it to the front page, and there are many more to come.

In the interim, I’m going to post the addendum to the current note-set fairly soon.

[EDIT 13-September-2009 12:36am -- I uploaded the new notes documents to the index, and I submitted the following clues which can be found on the Contributions page.]

Letter [105]

The bottle cap ties into an ad from 2001.

“In Binary congruence with 3/8/89, Chemnitz has provided a zabra…for the initial transfer.” – ADW 17-January-2001

As Jessica Augustsson notes, Zabra could be a misspelling of “sabra,” which is both a type of boat or a Jew born in Palestine. In the context of the ad, it could either mean the furnishing of a small boat to transfer something that the Arbella is unable to, or the provision of a bottle of Sabra Chocolate Orange Liqueur as part of a transfer.

The question at the heart of this is: “Is this cap a clue to deciphering 17-January-2001, is it supposed to draw your interest back to that ad for some reason, or is the Orphanage just messing with you?”

Freaks 214

The “cancel” he is talking about is the cross-shaped marker-lines on this envelope (http://www.maydaymystery.org/mayday/offsite/delivery05202009/envelope.jpg) from ~20-May-2009 (the one with the bottlecap in it). While the Orphanage would point this out because it follows the cross shape they made with the stamps, it was probably the result of the cancellation machine being broken or something of that nature. Or, they could have a man on the inside at the Post Office.

Freaks 215

This email to you references a group called the Zion Rangers “walking through walls.” This could be a reference to ADW 1-May-2006, which includes a refernce to the book “Walking Through Walls: A Presentation of Tibetan Meditation” by Anne Carolyn Klein.

1-May-2009

To Anne,

I had the same reaction to that map that you did. However, I went to elementary school in Michigan, so I think the U.S. Map pattern must be fairly widespread, at least enough so that a cold-identification of the particular school in question will be all but impossible.

Channel-rhodopsins are proteins that serve as photoreceptors. In experiments conducted on zebra-fish, it has been found that manipulation of zebra-fish neurons with ChR2 can enable researchers to manipulate zebra-fish behavior through the application of “brief pulses of blue light.” (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18682213)

4-ethylguaiacol is a compound formed during alcoholic fermentation that can give a “bacon” flavor to wines. Presence of 4-ethylguaiacol in wine generally indicates that the batch has spoiled.

Rosumovi Univerzalni Roboti are Rossum’s Universal Robots, from a play by the same name by Karel Capek. His play represented the first appearance of the concept of “robot” in English. However, the robots in the story were not mechanical, but biological.

When these clues are taken together with these lines: “the first field tests…have demonstrated…that Pigs guzzling vin rouge of any grade, respond to the empirical exemplars. Their “will”—if they possessed such—is statistically immaterial when pitted against the repetitive imbibition coupled with THE ORPHANAGE’s imaginal archetypes”; suggest that the Orphanage are drugging the Pigs (the police?) and planning to use them to further their own ends.

The horizontal music is Azmon CM, alluded to in the bottom-right quadrant. That tune is used in the song UMH 057 “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing” by Charles Wesley, who said that every man should sing it on the anniversary of his conversion (http://biographies.texasfasola.org/charleswesley.html). Sheet music here: (http://www.strictbaptist.com/YOUNG%20PEOPLE%27S%20HYMNAL/PDF/5%20Azmon.pdf).

The vertical music is the hymn UMH 110 “A Mighty Fortress is Our God (Ein Feste Burg),” written by Martin Luther, whose meter is 87.87.66.667 (also int he lower-right quadrant). Music here: (http://www.hymnsite.com/pdf/110piano.pdf).

The photo of the child playing over the map of the U.S. looks very very similar to the black-top at the elementary school I went to so long ago. I’m not sure it would be possible to get that perspective at at the school, as there is nothing very high at that point. Also, common sense would dictate that there is no way in hell that is my old elementary school. Right?

Clue also posted at the Wildcat Code.

*As my good friend Steven said at the time: “Really, what is there to lose?” This is why he is no longer in the will.

For convenience’s sake, I have also copied my gaming articles to this page in Chuck’s World O’ Wargames and all of my May Day Mystery news to the Updates page at The Wildcat Code.

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.