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)

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Also, I came across three useful posts about the business side of being an author.

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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)

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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

Michigan Journal of History (January 2011 — Present) – I’m the webmaster of this. It’s not much work, and I didn’t do any of the design, but I did format the pdf’s. Also, it comes with a nifty title: Senior Editor. Bow before me!

• Michigan Journal of History – http://www.umich.edu/~historyj/