RE: VMs: wet blanket?/

["Christine Gray" <Langwidge@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nick,

I didn't see that issue, but I know what you mean about that magazine.

Christine

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Hi everyone,

At 10:33 24/08/2004 -0400, Christine Gray wrote:
>In the September 2004 issue of Wired there's an article (pp. 112,
>114, 116, 121) on Gordon Rugg's de-bunking of the Voynich MS. The
>Wired article focuses on his methodology, not the MS, but it mentions
>his article on the MS in the journal _Cryptologia_  published earlier
>this year. I think medieval studies folks will be interested in the
>Wired article discussion of his method -- "the verifier approach"  --
>used for problem solving and examining "expertise gaps" as well as
>the article on the MS.

*sigh* I stopped reading Wired after their godawful 1997 "Long Boom" issue,
when editor Kevin Kelly's desire for techno-spectacle over actual substance
finally became too hard for me to swallow. From the above precis, it would
seem that nothing much has changed since then. :-(

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling....


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