One well known and old-fashioned method of encoding messages was the “Spartan Scytale Cipher“, whereby the coded message was revealed if a strip of seemingly jumbled letters was wrapped around the correct sized rod:
In the modern day of computer documents, strange alignments can sometimes be revealed by adjusting the page width, and thus the line wrap width. By a strange coincidence, a recent forecast from the National Weather Service in Alaska reveals a coded message wrapped into the first character of each line……. P L E A S E P A Y U S !! (Click image to view full size.) H/T Twitchy.com
