I Think I'm Turning Voynichese

Fr. Z. has a fun little post on the mysteriously-encoded(or just plain incomprehensible) Voynich manuscript (once owned, incidentally, by our pal Kircher). Possible culprits for its existence include: Cathars, Roger Bacon, assorted crazies and a forger with a weird sense of humor. (And probably Freemasons and little green men, too, but then, they're always th blame for this sort of thing. They