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4 kottke.org posts about code

 

"Inspector Sands is a codeword used by

"Inspector Sands is a codeword used by public transport authorities in London...to alert authorities of a potential emergency without causing panic amongst travellers by explicitly mentioning the nature of the emergency." Cool! (via alice)

By Jason Kottke  •  Jan 19, 2006  •  code   London

Shakespeare put coded messages about Catholicism into

Shakespeare put coded messages about Catholicism into his plays that, due to the "Protestant, Whig ascendancy", have not been decoded until now.

By Jason Kottke  •  Aug 30, 2005  •  books   catholic   code   plays   William Shakespeare

The last surviving WWII Comanche code talker dies

The last surviving WWII Comanche code talker dies. "The group of Comanche Indians from the Lawton area were selected for special duty in the U.S. Army to provide the Allies with a language that the Germans could not decipher."

By Jason Kottke  •  Jul 22, 2005  •  code   codetalkers   Germany   nativeamericans   wars   World War II

Code snippets for working with tags and SQL

Code snippets for working with tags and SQL.

By Jason Kottke  •  Apr 8, 2005  •  code   programming   sql   tags

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