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What else? There was that thing that converted text completely into whitespace characters, but I can't remember what it was called. Here's a description of one possible technique. Here's a programming language that uses only whitespace, but that's not it.

Ah, here it is, it's called ProleText. Serves me right for not putting any keywords to search for in that post. I can't find an online converter though.

Also see:
Acme::Bleach and Acme::Morse

Of course, morse code:
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/morse/ (note to self, learn morse code)

Simple text reversion would work as an obfuscator as well, but not as well. Compression isn't an option because it doesn't result in text anymore. Of course, you can compress and then base64 (for example).

http://www.kremlinencrypt.com/crypto/algorithms.html

Simple rotation, as done with something like Rotix is something to consider, but I don't think it'd be acceptible in the context of Unicode encodings. It would have to work on code points in the absence of having detailed information about every language, and then it would have to be careful about what code points it wound up with.

Other methods of text obfuscation might be inserting random characters in between the real characters at predictable intervals.

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Madville Corporate Alpha Challenge: Video Games

This is amazing. Madville Corporate Alpha Challenge: Video Games

Welcome to Madville's Corporate Alpha Challenge. Every month, a new theme will appear, and your job is to figure out which company or product logo the following letters are taken from.

This month's theme:

Like, Oh My God! It's the 80's and 90's all over again. Remember those video games you played constantly in the arcades? Yeah? Ok, quarter jockey, see if you can figure out which games these letters have been taken from.

Totally awesome. See how many you can get. I'm currently at five, and I'm not sure I'm going anywhere from here.

Man, so many of these I know I've seen before, but I can't match them to a video game name.

Oh, I'm pathetic. I found this link at Fazed... I should have tried again tomorrow (no, I haven't gone to sleep yet, though I took like a 5-6 hour nap yesterday) but I've looked at some of the comments and I can't believe some of the ones I missed.

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del.icio.us/keith

Oh crap, I think I may be starting to use del.icio.us for my link posts.

I don't know if I'll stick with it and wind up using it as a source for link posts on my site. The format is constraining, and the amount of text you can put in the extended description field is limited. The main reason I like it is because of the pop-up window bookmarklet (which for some reason annoyingly behaves as a pop-under) and because of the social aspect of it (seeing who else linked to something you linked to).

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Bad picture of me

My friend just got an awesome new phone. He took a picture of me and e-mailed it to me from his phone. Since I already had it, I figured I'd stick it on my web site

I have hat-hair, need a haircut badly, and am wearing a weird smile, but here it is anyway:

Picture of me from my friend's phone