Invisible Ink

Sensitive information, secret messages, grocery lists: all things you want top secret. Your eyes only kind of stuff. Well unfortunately all your classified documents are all too readable. “Poppy-cock,” you say, “not me! I've safely stowed all that kind of stuff in my [fill in the blank: filing cabinet/safe/other easy to break into thing].” You poor naiive son of a gun. Any moron can go down to the breaking and entry aisle of Walmart, drop fifteen bucks on a lock picking kit and a copy of, “Stealing Secret Papers for Dummies” and WABLAMO he'll have his secret paper grubbing hands on those secret papers before you can say, “secret papers.”

Unless you want to guard those papers round the clock with some kind of anti paper thief device (a shotgun usually works pretty well) then I guess the whole world is going to know your social security number, your bank information, and which actor from Ocean's Eleven you have a secret but platonic (keep telling yourself that) crush on. Most people say Brad Pitt, but that Chinese guy can sure back-flip around. Anyway if you want that stuff on every blog this side of Google then go ahead stop reading...thats right just stop reading right now.

Well...hopefully you didn't REALLY stop reading because if you did you probably won't buy whatever it is I'm trying to needlessly scare kindly encourage you into buying. So just what is it you're supposed to be whipping out your credits cards right now for? Two important words: invisible ink pens. No thats only two words, invisible and ink were the only important words there...pens was just there because thats what happens to use the invisible ink...I mean you could like use your finger or a paintbrush instead of a pen and it all work out fine.  Last time you'll question my important word counting skills.

How does it work you say? Why don't you quiet down and let me ask the questions here. You see us—as normal humans without cybernetic eyeballs—can only see light from wavelengths of 380 to 750 nm. Thats good enough right? Wrongo bongo buddy. There's an awful lot of stuff out there outside the visual spectrum: cloaked predators, invisible ink, and...maybe a person...like who took a bath in invisible ink. (WANRING: invisible ink not guaranteed to make you invisible) Invisible ink is entirely undetectable by the naked eye—only under ultraviolet light does it become visible.

Now I know what you must be thinking: isn't invisibility just some made up thing to make Harry Potter seem cooler? How dare you think that! That kid has been through a lot! And invisible ink is all too real. For all you know your walls are covered in the stuff right now. You could even have, “kick me” written on the back of all your shirts. That would explain all the kicks from all those guys with the UV lights wouldn't it?

So since it is real get your hands on some ASAP...well not really cause then you wouldn't be able to see your hands...or at least the ink on your hands. The point is writing with normal ink is old-fashioned, dangerous, and just not very cool nowadays. Write with invisible ink and you'll finally have some privacy and peace of mind. Your secrets will stay secret—unless of course somebody else buys a UV light from this site, in which case they'll know everything. But I'm pretty sure all the bad guys don't know about this site yet, so you're safe.