Doughnut over at Subnova is reporting that they are beginning to collect contact info for those who might attend a Fanfest in Australia. Check Subnova for details.

Skeletor over at HBO's forum managed to get a shot of the Webcam at a slightly different angle, and posted all the words that he could read. If you add in the words that he could see with the ones that we posted about later on, you get this text:

And then Bendigeidfran commanded his head to be cut off. 'And take the head,' he said, 'and carry it to the War Mount in London, and bury it with its face towards France. And you will be a long time ypon the road. In Hazelton, you will be feasting seven years, and the birds (birth?) of Rhiannon saying (singing?) unto you. And the head will be as pleasant company as ever it was at best when it was on me. And at [unreadable] you will be [unreadable] years(?) and until you open the [unreadable] Aber Henfelm(?), the side facing Cornwall, you [unreadable] and the head with you uncorrupted. Hat(bat?) from the

Well, that fills in a few of the holes, but I'm not sure it makes anything much clearer. The idea of a head being cut off and yet still being pleasant company rings a few bells, although I'm not sure I remember anybody ever calling The Head 'pleasant company'.

Well, in a manner of speaking.

Right now there's a new piece of reading material put in front of the webcam, and this time I don't think the author is a Yale law professor.

The top of the page reads in part:

And then Bendigeidfran commanded his head to be cut off. 'And take the head,' he said, 'and carry it to the [unreadable] Mount in London, and bury it with its face towards [unreadable]. And you will be a long time ypon the road. In Hazelton, you will be feasting seven years, and the birth of Rhiannon [unreadable] unto you. And the head will be as pleasant [unreadable] ever it was at best when it was [unreadable].

I could be on crack, but this sounds a lot more like Myth... uh, I mean, some other kind of fantasy, possibly siege-related game, rather than Halo.

A quick turn around the web reveals some links that might possibly shed some light:

http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/myth/myth06.htm

http://realmagick.com/articles/96/896-related.html

http://www.angelfire.com/home/thefaery2/

http://www.google.com/search?q=bendigeidfran&btnG=Google+Search

The other day I was browsing the Bungie Webcam and noticed what appeared to be the cover of a book with the word INTEGRITY on the cover in very large letters. However, the whole thing wasn't visible, and I thought to myself, if I was enough of a Bungie Fan, I'd go search the web until I found out what book that was and tried to relate it to Halo somehow.

Well, today the image on the 'cam shows the whole cover, including the author's name, and Matt(uh...#5) beat me to it, posting a link on the forum at halo.bungie.org to this item on Amazon.com, which, incidentally, is Integrity by one Stephen L. Carter, Yale law professor.

On that page is an excerpt from Kirkus Reviews about the book, in which this appears:

Integrity, in his conception of it, is a kind of über-virtue, for it involves, discerning what is right and what is wrong [and] acting on what you have discerned, even at personal cost. To make sure everyone knows that you have integrity, you should also announce that you are acting on your understanding of right from wrong. Carter is aware of all the traditional problems with integrity (doesn't a fanatical Nazi have integrity?), and in his legalistic way, the Yale law professor enunciates a series of carefully couched codicils designed to close off such immoral loopholes.

Now, others can do the bit of trying to relate this somehow to Halo, or Bungie, or Microsoft, or something...