At 01:47 PM 10/18/2001 -0700, Optimizzin Al-gorithm wrote:
The Sesame Street character that has appeared in a huge poster with Osama bin Laden is significant in that it is yellow and has a mask-like quality. And one can be certain that it was not placed on that huge poster by accident, as some people have stupidly suggested. It is a signal.
Bert Stego? Occam's razor, dude.
You're missing the fundamentals of conspiracy here - the secret steganographically-hidden message in the Osama & Bert poster *is* the picture of Bert :-) But what does it *mean*? Is it just to distract you from the fnords? Osama doesn't use Occam's razor, after all. Is it the basic principle that the reason you don't understand why they've hidden Bert's picture in the picture of Bert is that *that just shows how clever they are*? Or is it something more subtle, more dangerous, a denial of service attack cleverly designed to keep the experts distracted by analyzing this South-West-Asian version of a koan, looking beyond the picture of one puppet clapping to find the invisible hand hidden inside, trying to see the fingerprints through the cloth instead of looking around them at what's really happening behind their backs. Wheels within wheels, man. By the way, there was iocaine powder in both glasses.