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essentialsaltes ([personal profile] essentialsaltes) wrote2006-02-22 01:18 pm
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Two oddities for the price of one

Please tell Microsoft about this problem.

Athanasius Kircher rises once more in my esteem. Jesuit, linguist, cryptographer, musician and all-around polymath. He may not have been able to decipher the Voynich Manuscript (then again neither has any one else) but one cannot but admire the mind that invented the cat piano.

Cat Piano

[identity profile] jimkeller.livejournal.com 2006-02-22 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm, seems the Muppophone wasn't such a novel invention after all...