We have a guy at work who uses Comic Sans in all his emails. Yes, it's pretty legible at 12pt and up, but not so much at 10pt and down.

Plus, we work in software support with a focus on Unix platforms. We're frequently sending snippets of log files or other cryptic, not-natural-language text. Lastly, to top it all off, he can't type. It's a wonder anyone responds to him.

OMG, We've ALL been discovered...

What Should I Consider Suspicious?

People Who:
- Are overly concerned about privacy, attempts to shield the screen from view of
others
- Always pay cash or use credit card(s) in different name(s)
- Apparently use tradecraft: lookout, blocker or someone to distract employees
- Act nervous or suspicious behavior inconsistent with activities
- Are observed switching SIM cards in cell phone or use of multiple cell phones
- Travel illogical distance to use Internet Café

Activities on Computer indicate:
- Evidence of a residential based internet provider (signs on to Comcast, AOL,
etc.)
- Use of anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address
- Suspicious or coded writings, use of code word sheets, cryptic ledgers, etc.
- Encryption or use of software to hide encrypted data in digital photos, etc.
- Suspicious communications using VOIP or communicating through a PC game

Use Computers to:
Download content of extreme/radical nature with violent themes
- Gather information about vulnerable infrastructure or obtain photos, maps or
diagrams of transportation, sporting venues, or populated locations
- Purchase chemicals, acids, hydrogen peroxide, acetone, fertilizer, etc.

Download or transfer files with “how-to” content such as:
- Content of extreme/radical nature with violent themes
- Anarchist Cookbook, explosives or weapons information
- Military tactics, equipment manuals, chemical or biological information
- Terrorist/revolutionary literature
- Preoccupation with press coverage of terrorist attacks
- Defensive tactics, police or government information
- Information about timers, electronics, or remote transmitters / receivers

Here is the Pamphlet: http://publicintelligence.net/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist/

This is an older pamphlet. It's a scanned photocopy, it's hard to tell if this is official or not but several sites seem to have it posted: http://welfarestate.com/pamphlet/

Caution: Spoilers galore.

I found the House of the Undying scene to have a fittingly creepy mood, even though it was changed a lot. The scene with Drogo seemed to me to be stolen directly from the Accepted tests that Aes Sedai novices go through in The Wheel of Time, but it was a powerful scene nonetheless. I think they missed an opportunity when Dany exited north of the wall to show her a glimpse of the dangers coming from the north. What I missed most compared to the book was the vision Dany has of Rhaegar playing the harp and talking to some woman about his son, which is an important scene for a certain popular fan theory.

What annoyed me most in this season was how the story of Jon Snow and Qhorin Halfhand played out. You didn't really get to see how Qhorin became an important mentor to Jon Snow. Even worse: It was not pointed out clear enough that Qhorin practically ordered Jon to kill him in order to be able to infiltrate the wildlings. Instead it looked like Jon just killed him out of self-defense.

But there were more things I liked than disliked. Theon's battle speech scene was hilarious, and they pulled off Jaqen's face-changing really well. I also liked Luwin's demise; it shocked me how he was just stabbed out of hand, even though I knew he would die. I fear it might be a bit cryptic to non-book readers why Winterfell was suddenly burned down, though. There was also some brilliant acting from Sophie Turner as Sansa when she learns she doesn't have to marry Joffrey after all.

All in all, I liked most of the changes in this season. Some of them even made the story better than in the book, at least for the TV medium.

Rad.
Lembeh is great! When you first go down, you don't see anything.. just "muck".. but then you notice that everything you do see is a cryptic animal. Every leaf floating by is a fish.. every pebble is the eye of a mantis shrimp. Oh, and there are pygmy seahorses!

the rest of the videos at tigerinajar.com are equally if not more cryptic.

I thought the films got Snape dead wrong. They have him vaguely menacing and cryptic. He doesn't even really act like an authority figure.

In the books he's openly sarcastic, insulting, and threatening. He's wickedly intelligent and disdainful of those who aren't.

Probably the main place the films fail for me is not in plot simplifications or ill-conceived action sequences, but the fact that characters like Snape and Dumbledore are warped beyond recognition.

It's dependent on age. Most people my age prefer heavily trimmed genitalia.

I'm sure the "men you admire" like when a woman shaves her legs and her pits right? Assuming the answer is yes, then that right there is modification from how bodies "evolved to be". If they like hairy pits and legs, then they're an exception to the rule, not the rule.>> ^bareboards2:

A bit cryptic here... are you saying that having sex is good, but you would turn it down if the vagina came to you au naturelle?
Well, that is your choice.
I have noticed that the men I admire most really love bodies as they evolved to be, not some plasticized and sanitized unnatural vision of Barbie and Ken dolls. That personal preference seems to be tied to a love of life and a way of being in the world that is very attractive.
At least, this is true of the men here on the Sift. I don't have this conversation out in the real world, I just have read the comments here and there.

>> ^rottenseed:
>> ^bareboards2:
That's not a bad idea, rottenseed.
How's about it @blankfist? You into cougars?
>> ^rottenseed:
get a room


yes!
>> ^bareboards2:
Looks like someone could use a good waxing.
I hear waxing is really really painful.
http://videosift.com/video/Don-t-Wax-That-Vay-Jay-Jay


nevermind...

A bit cryptic here... are you saying that having sex is good, but you would turn it down if the vagina came to you au naturelle?

Well, that is your choice.

I have noticed that the men I admire most really love bodies as they evolved to be, not some plasticized and sanitized unnatural vision of Barbie and Ken dolls. That personal preference seems to be tied to a love of life and a way of being in the world that is very attractive.

At least, this is true of the men here on the Sift. I don't have this conversation out in the real world, I just have read the comments here and there.



>> ^rottenseed:

>> ^bareboards2:
That's not a bad idea, rottenseed.
How's about it @blankfist? You into cougars?
>> ^rottenseed:
get a room


yes!
>> ^bareboards2:
Looks like someone could use a good waxing.
I hear waxing is really really painful.
http://videosift.com/video/Don-t-Wax-That-Vay-Jay-Jay


nevermind...

When I heard the basic plot idea for Knowing (except back then it was children's drawings in that capsule instead of crazy cryptic numbers), I was intrigued. I guess mainly because it was from the creator of Dark City. Maybe I would've enjoyed Knowing if I hadn't known who made it, but Dark City put the bar way up there. So yeah, pretty disappointing movie.

>> ^Shepppard:

And on KP's side, although Choggie has technically forfeit his right to have any input (lets overlook that fact for the sake of the example) what would happen if he didn't want a page written about him at all?

Tough titties. He and everyone else here voluntarily joined and participated in a community. Communities have collective memories and often document them. That's not to say that anything goes. Vandalism and slander are obviously not allowed, just as they aren't allowed on VideoSift itself.

A topic page about choggie is a good example of a page that should exist. Considering that he comes back from time to time, it would be informative for users unaware of the history why certain probie members are suddenly instabanned with otherwise cryptic messages left on the profile page. That page would contain wildly conflicting views of him and be heavily edited. It may even contain content from choggie himself, added by sympathetic members. And that would honestly reflect choggie's time at VideoSift.

@residue

Backstory is that karl pilkington has a huge cult following amongst people in the know. He met gervais and merchant working at XFM radio station (small local london station) which gervais did as a favour to someone who gave him a job early in his life.

Since then, gervais has mercilessly taken the piss out of karl. Karl is unique in that he's the only person in the world who's both the stupidest person ever and a complete and utter genius.

They made loads of radio shows and loads of podcasts, then they made an idiot abroad. The format basically goes like this: Karl says something rediculous, gervais and merchant take the piss out of him. They often ask him questions which he has no chance of understanding just to see what stupid things he'll say. He is fascinated by anything different (such as warrick, the elephant man, gay people, siamese twins, ANYTHING different to your average human), he's entranced by monkies and thinks that monkies are basically humans who can't speak properly.

He used to come up with pathetic game shows in which he'd come up with clues that he'd label cryptic (to gervais' chagrin) where he'd give a clue and a pair of initials, and you would have to guess what band or artist name he was referring to, it amounted to this;
"The jamaican fellow is swinging a fish around his head, DS"
-- Detroit Spinners (The trout spinners, in a jamaican accent - de trout spinners)
"I told the gay man that the grape tree was mine, MG"
-- Marvin Gaye (My vine, gay)

The radio show was an absolute shambles, it was barely even a radio show and more a case of 3 blokes having a chat in a pub with a microphone left running. And i will say with certainty that i have never laughed so hard or so much at any kind of comedy. I'd say gervais' BEST work is the podcasts and radio shows he did with pilkington.

During the course of the podcasts, pilkington has dropped MANY clangers and had many more catchphrases - gervais uses a lot of references to karl in his work. For example whenever gervais wants to play his 'arrogant jerk' routine he refers to a gay person he says "little gay fellow", because it's inherently condescending. That's actually something he got off karl who refers to EVERY diversity as "little <x> fellow" - little gay fellows, little chinese fellows, little gay chinese fellows, little disabled fellows and very particularly "little midget fellow".

So.....gervais introduced him to warrick. And they've talked about warrick on the radio show/podcasts before.

Edit:
Might actually post this as a sift talk so people know who the new guy on the sift is.

@blankfist, truly a man as unjustly overtaxed and under-appreciated to the point of persecution such as your uber productive self...a man who by dint of will alone manages to frequent this site and share with us the bright shards and cryptic remnants of his costly, hard-won wisdom...fording statist subterfuge...and...and.... surmounting collectivist ramparts...

Aw, fuck it. Bite me.

Spoiler #1: It turns out that Jake was dead the whole time, and that the Na'vi were all ghosts.

Spoiler #2: Midway through the film, a quick pan of Neytiri's naked body reveals that she is actually a he.

Spoiler #3: Colonel Miles Quaritch cryptically whispers 'rosebud' in the opening scene of the film, which we eventually learn is actually the name of his childhood sled, symbolically representing the lost innocence of youth he so dearly longed for.

Spoiler #4: After discovering the Statue of Liberty protruding from a Pandoran Lake, Dr. Grace Augustine realizes that they've been on Earth the entire time!

Spoiler #5: Darth Vader reveals that he is in fact James Cameron's father.

When I first saw the name NeuralNoise, I was intrigued. What could this cryptic username mean? Was it referring to how the seemingly chaotic maelstrom of neurons firing in all directions gives rise to what we call thought? Or was it perhaps a commentary on the effects of today's information overflow on our psyche?

Alas, upon further inquiry we now find that the username is nothing more than a fratboy's flaunting of his favourite band and/or novel. You know the type; the one who is the only person in the world who Truly Understands these lyrical geniuses, and knows in his heart that everyone else are lesser human beings for not adoring his idols as much as he does. He feels that His Band is under-appreciated by the general public, but he secretly harbors a fear that they will someday actually become popular, since this would render him obsolete. After all, his mindless adulation is his only substitute for a lack of personality. Yeah, NeuralNoise is that guy. No wonder rasch "Dylan" 187 likes him.

This is symptomatic for the rest of NeuralNoise's sorry character. Oh, great, you managed to inseminate some woman. Now this is suddenly all your existence revolves around. You even have the audacity to blog about it. Well, congratulations. You have taken the essence of this narcissistic medium and turned it into a dark and frightening shadow of itself. Exploiting your daughter to feed your exaggerated sense of self-importance; I'm disgusted. Good luck living through your children for the rest of your life.

The shallow nature of NeuralNoise is also evident in his answers:


What is your favorite video on videosift?
Can´t remember anymore. But living in Brazil, I blame videosift on my addiction to Maher, Colbert and Stewart bits
Favorite comment on videosift?
confess you are asking these questions only to make fun of my alzheimer-ridden brain


Yeah right, blame your memory. Can it be so hard to look through the top-rated comments on the site and pick one of them? I rather think you only care about the videos and comments you yourself have posted, and your faux modesty prevents you from mentioning them. VideoSift is simply your arena for assertiveness. Let's hope this roast can rectify some of that.

You didn't miss anything by not seeing the Antichrist.

It's very well filmed due to the usage of the RED camera, but the movie doesn't know what its trying to be and relies alot of shock. The story meanders and is unbelievable. Then the titles close and he cryptically dedicates this to Anderi Tarkovsky which made me want to throw things at the screen given that I just watched Stalker the night before.

Enter the void sounds interesting... ON WEED.