Alright, so it's finally the 24th, and the weekly update you've all been waiting for, the interview with Jonthan Gay. There's also a new puzzle, and the answer to last week's, but I know you are all coming for the interviews.

Anyways, without further adieu:

http://darkcastlenews.blogspot.com/2008/12...-update_24.html


Happy Holidays!

Wow, what a nice guy to take the time to share that information with us.

I absolutely loved it, and it's great to know a little bit more about Dark Castle. Thanks Jon!

Yes, I very much liked finding out about the sound effects.

Nice interview Jon - bit of a stock question though at the end ;)

Just gone Christmas Day here in the UK, so Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it (and happy holidays to those who don't)

Yes indeed, I hope everyone is happy with this!

Merry Holiday to all... And to all good night.

Nice "hidden message" there on PrinceDuncan.com, Gruz. "Super Happy Fun Fun ******* S****" Well hidden. All I had to do to find it was pull on the hidden chain and translate like only a computer nerd can do...

Happy Holidays!

Still can't find the hidden message...

The way to decode it is in this message. You can just type that on the command line, followed by the (binary) encoded message, and it will be decoded.

The message can be found on http://princeduncan.com/.

I cannot figure out how to access this message. Tell me where it is and give me a pony so that my Christmas wishes may be complete. :P Please?

mmm... the source of your problems is not viewing it correctly...

hai hai; marking up is over-rated; nobody can comment...

*** disappears in search of Meron-pan

As I stated, all you need to do is pull the HIDDEN chain.

My browser must be faulty because I have no hidden chain. I've highlighted the entire page and there is nothing in the black.

The first part of it is in the page's source. If you don't know how to view that, don't worry about it. You most likely won't be able to decipher the hidden message.

On topic tho: Jon, have you decided if it's going to be a weekly, or a bi-monthly update for the DC blog?

Argh, it hurts to give answers out.... Anyway, giving up on subtle clues - I will translate below:

First line: Telling you that you aren't viewing the page correctly, with unnecessary stress of the word source.
Second line: `Marking up is overrated' - another clue not to look at the mark-up, but look at the source. Second part then hints that you need to look in the page's comments (one part of the page which will never show in the mark-up, as browsers discard comments).

::sigh::

Oh, and HTML (Hyper-Text-Markup-Language) comments look like '<!-- some possibly mult-line comment -->'

I totally blew it and didn't catch that that was a hint at all. <_< Thanks Rich.

Edit: saw it. Can't read binary though :P

That's why I made a program to decode it for you and others (see my initial link) - just copy it into a terminal and then copy the `message' in afterwards - it will output the answer.

Or go to the below site, as I did.

http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGrou...ary_to_Text.asp

Wow, compare all the code on there to perl -e 'print pack("B*", $ARGV[0])."\n"'

But yes, for those who are allergic to the command line and copy-pasting text to it, copy-pasting to a web-page is a next best :)

For the moment, It's weekly, it may slow down when I don't have as much content.

P.S. Nice avatar Richard!