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...meet again, Deerhoof. Your cryptic half-lyrics and peculiar melodies have fooled me before, but no more will I fall victim to your deception. I am determined to discover the sinister meaning behind your bizarre art rock semblance. The video transmission, unassumingly titled “Fresh Born,” begins with a small group of giddy Asian men pretending to play guitar and drums during some strange chanting. This is not the Deerhoof I’m familiar with, and I’m becoming very afraid. But wait, it’s a fake out! Soon...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Deerhoof | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...cryptic Internet posse known for its attacks on Scientology may have found a new target in Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Several self-proclaimed members of Anonymous, a loosely organized group associated with the message board 4Chan, apparently breached the Alaska governor's personal Yahoo! account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) late Tuesday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Palin's E-Mail Hacked | 9/17/2008 | See Source »

...last September, Nastia Liukin's father handed her a Post-it note. On it were a string of letters - D, D, E, D, D, E, spelling out a cryptic code that the 18-year old Texan couldn't figure out at first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Gymnasts Land a 1-2 Punch | 8/15/2008 | See Source »

...audience's credulity, as Swing Vote falls from agreeable fable into wan satire. Why 10 days? To show that the electoral process is a shameless sham in which politicians pretzel their principles to get elected. The two candidates come courting Bud. Drawing their own inferences from his cryptic remarks, the Republican (Kelsey Grammer) suddenly plumps for gay marriage, while the Democrat (Dennis Hopper) turns pro-life. The movie says these are decent men forced to reverse field by their Machiavellian advisers (Stanley Tucci as, essentially, Karl Rove; Nathan Lane as, more or less, Robert Shrum). If this is the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Election, Stupid | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...West Texas, and it was hard to know which found the other more bewildering. The 32-year-old welder wore his hair slicked in a bygone style and sometimes stammered as he spoke in a flat monotone about prophets and the trials sent by God to test him. His cryptic words were directed to a group of people holding television cameras and microphones and tape recorders, people whose impressions of Williams then flashed by satellite and digital relays to households around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Texas Polygamist Sect: Uncoupled and Unchartered | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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