Friday, January 27, 2006

Hint! Hint! Hint!

You find and click on the link. A moment later you are here, on The Mâvarin Experiments stealth blog. You congratulate yourself, because surely this is one of the three secrets of that other blog entry.

You look around, and you see that the stealth blog was indeed used to experiment with the template changes later used on Outpost Mâvarin. It occurs to you that Shelly probably gave useful advice on the subject; and you're right. She did.

You think that photo with the river doesn't look like anything taken in the Arizona desert. You are correct. It's MS Office clip art. Even so, it looks remarkably like the River Misis in Mâvarin - not that you've ever seen such a place yourself! If you are a photographer with a river nearby, you think about some of the great pictures you've taken, there and elsewhere.

It occurs to you that the entry on this stealth blog is slightly different from the Outpost one. This one reads more like a Choose Your Own Adventure than the Outpost entry does. Was the book about the child going to the moon a Choose Your Own Adventure? No, it couldn't be, you decide. There probably weren't any books like that back in the early 1960s. Still, the book with "...Go to the Moon" in the title does have important points in common with the later kids' books. In fact, there was a 1971 edition of the book, you discover, as well as the 1959 one. The later date is pretty close to the time of those other books you remember.



If you think you know all three secrets of the Outpost entry, click here.
If you want to read about the moon book, click here.
If you want to prove that you found the stealth blog, click here.
If you want to benefit from great blogging advice from someone who knows what a "static background" is, click here.

1 comment:

ShellyS said...

Clever bit of blogging. Of course, I wandered over here when I spotted this entry in my referrer logs and in my technorati watchlist (which I sub to via Bloglines) for Presto Speaks! Thanks for the mention. :)

BTW, Technorati has been working double time lately, spitting out dozens of updates daily.