Here's something interesting from The Independent: "British academic claims to have made a breakthrough in his quest to unlock the 600-year-old secrets of the mysterious Voynich Manuscript."

A few related links:
* From BoingBoing: "Voynich Manuscript Partially Decoded, Text Is Not a Hoax, Scholar Finds"
* From The Boston Globe: "Why Scholars Can't Resist the Uncrackable Voynich Manuscript"
* From The Verge:"Decrypting the Most Mysterious Book in the World"





And here's something else that's interesting: birthdays! Happy birthday to bluerocean and starrchilde, and happy early birthday to clara_posts, thewordoffred, lovefromgirl, artwhisperer, jasonbsizemore, dannyboy8406, _snitchbitch, killerweasel, ashesngolddust, dracschick, wellinghall, nrlymrtl, unovis, bellatook, thepirateship, rosieb328, and supervillainess. May all of you enjoy many happy returns of the day!

"The sun is brilliant in the sky but its warmth does not reach my face.
The breeze stirs the trees but leaves my hair unmoved.
The cooling rain will feed the grass but will not slake my thirst.
It is all inches away but further from me than my dreams."
-  M. Romeo LaFlamme, The First of March