Judge Put Coded Message Into “Da Vinci Code” Judgement
The BBC reports that Mr Justice Peter Smith encoded a message into his judgement on the “Da Vinci Code” copyright case.
Seemingly random italicised letters were included in the 71-page judgement given by Mr Justice Peter Smith, which apparently spell out a message. [...]
Italicised letters in the first few pages spell out “Smithy Code”, while the following pages also contain marked out letters.
I liked the fact he said:
I can’t discuss the judgement, but I don’t see why a judgement should not be a matter of fun,
Nice one your honour. 
April 28th, 2006 at 8:50 am
First thing I did was get the URL of the PDF, slap it into Google, then use the google “view as HTML” facility. This gave me a version that I could use regex against in order to extract the the <i>x</i> characters…
April 29th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
The code has been revealed now, it’s a reference to the launch of HMS Dreadnought almost 100 years before the day of the start of the trial.