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[UPDATE] Advert in USA Today (17th Feb)
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IanM
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Found the Ad

guess being 5 hours ahead of the yanks has some advantages, I brought an online copy of usa today and found the advert on page 46 it simple reads

LOST. The Cube. Reward Offered.
not only an object of great
significance to the city but also a
technological wonder
www.perplexcity.com

I was kinda hoping for more but I guess it is only the first ad in the list.
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Here is a scan of the ad in the marketplace section of USA Today for the 17th of Feb.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 10:16 am
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frantastic
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Will be interesting to compare ad to the one in the Times on Monday - wording, place in ad pages nd if any other ads in the classfied section are repeated in the US and the UK papers.

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Cute little ad. It escaped me a for a while, but I ended up tracking it down in the middle of my 7-11. Lol. Lady at the desk kept giving me funny looks as I read most of the paper before I bought it, and then bought it anyway. And when she asked me what I was looking for, I just said, "Oh, a cube." Yeah, I think this town must really think I'm nuts now. First payphones, now a cube...

In any case, I hate to suggest this, but I feel it must be suggested. What if this is just a set of adverts? I mean, they could quite possibly have no significance, and that typo could just be a typo. Sure, in this world of games we should question everything, but these things just don't seem that special or amazing. It's an advert. As Sigmund Freud said about dream analysis and trying to find symbols in dreams, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

But, in any case, the second sentence has no punctuation or capitolization. Everything else does. That seemed off to me, especially in an important sentence like that. Once again, I'm up for the idea that we should compare the ads that we find, such as the next one on Monday.
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C_Brennan wrote:
Cute little ad. It escaped me a for a while, but I ended up tracking it down in the middle of my 7-11. Lol. Lady at the desk kept giving me funny looks as I read most of the paper before I bought it, and then bought it anyway. And when she asked me what I was looking for, I just said, "Oh, a cube." Yeah, I think this town must really think I'm nuts now. First payphones, now a cube...


Hey C_Brennan, I did the same thing in the same 7-11 earlier, that might be why she was freaked out Smile
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DOH! God we're nerds...
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C_Brennan wrote:
DOH! God we're nerds...


Welcome to the Dork Side of the Force...
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Ugh... well, this really sucks. We get a clue leading us to a newspaper, which just leads back to the website where we got the clue from. Whoop-dee-doo. -_-
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I wasted a pound on the USA today international when i bought it at west kensington station...I could have bought a drink with that...lol
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11 again

I too wondered whether perlplexcity was mispelled or not. My mind might be rambling, but I found this website and I am wondering if there is something interesting there :

http://plexcity.com

Hier wird ein
interndisziplinäres Forum
für
KOMPLEXITÄT
eingerichtet!

I have no clue what this means, but you can notice that the text is written using 11 lines of text exactly, counting the blanks. If you do a whois, you will find that the website is hosted by 1und1.com, which brings again the number 11. Just a crazy idea... now I can go to sleep.
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Well...its German. Been too long since I've spoken any of that. Give me a few min and I'll dust off the old German-English dictionary.

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Well I get...

"Here will a

interdisciplinary forum

for

complexity

arranged/furnished/established"


Doesn't make much sense, but that is probably due to my rusty German. Also the page was made with Frontpage...so I would guess it is unrelated and OOG.
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German

Maybe it's the beginnings of a Perplex City Forum? (Total Spec)

<Edit>

I googled a translation and got the following. Slightly different.

"Here an interdisciplinary forum for COMPLEXITY is furnished!"
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Sorry! Found the information had been posted elsewhere! Ooops!
-C

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Re: German

Arwyn wrote:
Maybe it's the beginnings of a Perplex City Forum? (Total Spec)

<Edit>

I googled a translation and got the following. Slightly different.

"Here an interdisciplinary forum for COMPLEXITY is furnished!"


that's almost right:
"Here an interdisciplinary forum for complexity is being built."
The 'plexcity' therefore refers to com-plexcity and is completely out of game.

-23

PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:39 am
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Seej
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Re: 11 again

Riri wrote:
.....the website is hosted by 1und1.com, which brings again the number 11. .....

That'd be 1and1 (UK site) - they're a very popular web host (I use them myself). Yet another part of this that isn't a clue but I thought it would be worth dispelling any doubt.

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