9/14/06

Image Puzzle

This puzzle is pretty cool. I didn't get much past level 8.
Don't ask me for hints...

The text is always written in a clear form, it's just disguised in some way. There are no riddles or such things. The text is always located within the image file. It's never a reference to a place outside this website!
This puzzle is case sensitive

Hot Snacks!

1. Pirate's Booty
2. Little Debbie Boston Creme Rolls
3. Clamato Tortilla Chips
4. Mini Pringles
5. Walkers Sensations Oven Roasted Chicken with Lemon & Thyme
6. Lay's Ketchup Chips
7. Red Vines Original Red Twists
8. Walkers Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli
9. Archer Farms Black Pepper & Sea Salt Potato Chips
10. Rice Krispies Treats with Icy Glacier Gems
11. Deep River Snacks Rosemary & Olive Oil Kettle Cooked Potato Chips
12. Sabritas Papas Fritas Adobadas
13. Archer Farms Maple Barbecue Potato Chips
14. Crown Jewels Delicious Mint Chocolate Truffles
15. Matutano Cheetos Pandilla/Fantasmas Sabor a Queso/Queijo

Speaking of new food, I had the 'Tato Skins Steak & Potato flavored chips out of the vending machine at work. I checked the ingredients. These should be renamed to "worcestershire" flavored chips. Taquitos' commentary is pretty accurate except the chips don't taste very good.

Almost 3000

Bush "honored" the people who died in 9/11 by saluting the "the nearly 3,000 people who were killed on September 11, 2001."

If you look it up, there were actually 2,749 people killed that day, so there are 251 ghosts that never were.

On the other hand, you could also say there have been nearly 3000 soldiers killed in Iraq since the war began there. But, in fact, there have only been 2666 US soldiers killed in Iraq.

That's leaving out the 45,000 iraqis that have been killed so far.

How to reduce the murder rate?

Answer: redefine the problem.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. military did not count people killed by bombs, mortars, rockets or other mass attacks when it reported a dramatic drop in the number of murders in the Baghdad area last month, the U.S. command said Monday.

The decision to include only victims of drive-by shootings and those killed by torture and execution, usually at the hands of death squads, allowed U.S. officials to argue that a security crackdown that began in the capital August 7 had more than halved the city's murder rate.

But the types of slayings, including suicide bombings, that the U.S. excluded from the category of "murder" were not made explicit at the time. That led to confusion after Iraqi Health Ministry figures showed that 1,536 people died violently in and around Baghdad in August, nearly the same number as in July.

Ong-Bak

Director Prachya Pinkaew
has a new film out called Protector, or Tom yum goong.
I've heard that his previous film, Ong-bak was a "surprise hit". I've got it on hold at my library.

Ong-bak

SmartFilter

For some reason, SmartFilter won't let me see who was born on my birthday.
What's the simplest way to get around SmartFilter?


You cannot access the following Web address:
http://www.born-today.com/Today/11-09.htm

The site you requested is blocked under the following categories: Provocative Attire

roentgenizdat

This almost makes me nostalgic for the Cold War.
Where is the next source of banned information? The Arab world, or the US?

Owing to the lack of recordings of Western music available in the USSR, people had to rely on records coming through Eastern Europe, where controls on records were less strict, or on the tiny influx of records from beyond the iron curtain. Such restrictions meant the number of recordings would remain small and precious. But enterprising young people with technical skills learned to duplicate records with a converted phonograph that would "press" a record using a very unusual material for the purpose; discarded x-ray plates. This material was both plentiful and cheap, and millions of duplications of Western and Soviet groups were made and distributed by an underground roentgenizdat, or x-ray press, which is akin to the samizdat that was the notorious tradition of self-publication among banned writers in the USSR.