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[kmduke]

As I said before Im new to this so be gentle....

Ok, the black/uv light map we were given in "lockdown" and the magazine scan from Entertainment Weekly that were posted has been suggested as a big clue. Well from looking at the map we can see a reference to a Valenzetti. From Lost-media.com's home page you can find reference to someones attempt at finding anything on Valenzetti. I post below for reference

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'Lost': Map madness continues
Posted by gertiebeth
Friday, March 31 @ 07:17:51 CST - 1597 reads

lostisland writes "
Obsessives, stretch your nerd muscles (located mostly in the neck and eyeballs): It's time for some Lost detective work.

You'll be happy to know we're publishing That Crazy Map from the Hatch blast door in this week's issue -- and also right here on the site.


(Let's pretend, for a second, that it hasn't already spread all over the Internet.)


Now I'm no Doc Jensen (though I strongly recommend you check out his insanely rational theories), but a friend has strongly encouraged me to follow this lead: Valenzetti. You'll see the name on the lower left hand corner of the map, along with the words, "...relevance to Valenzetti-related research activity." My friend Googled "Valenzetti" and discovered a Googlewhack, that oh-so-rare search term that brings up only one result, in this case a log of recently registered domain names, including:


enzovalenzetti.com
thevalenzettiequation.com
valenzetti.com
valenzettiequation.com


All were registered last Sunday, by a shadowy entity called "Domain Discreet," which I suspect is a broker for companies buying sites on the sly for one reason or another.


So... who is Enzo Valenzetti?
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Ok, so tonight I googled Valenzetti and found this
http://news.antville.org/

On that site is the following quote

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PEOPLE: ENZO VALENZETTI, A WEIRD SCIENTIST
I met him at the bookshop last night. "It's a bad plan that can't be changed," he said.

by tommyblank, 14:09h
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"at the bookshop" is a hyperlink to this site

http://madscience.antville.org/

Which has on the right side a "new links" list
Follow the first two
Am I crazy?

[chippy]

the domains were registered before the show aired. We should keep our eye on them.

the post you mention was posted after the show was aired, and looking at the linkbacks, it's other lost forums talking about it...

however the utopian societies links on the left Walt Disneys and this italian example
are interesting, and certainly chimes in with the hatches and the aims of the hanso foundation.

[kmduke]

Well checking the link that chippy posted out of curiosity lead me to this page

http://news.antville.org/stories/1363105/

Which was updated today with this post

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enricovalenzetti, Sunday, 2. April 2006, 18:14
He is not so weird, is my father
I run homepage:

http://www.valenzettifoundation.org

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And the Whois of quoted address
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Domain Name:VALENZETTIFOUNDATION.ORG
Created On:31-Mar-2006 08:03:39 UTC
Expiration Date:31-Mar-2007 08:03:39 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:New Dream Network, LLC (R173-LROR)
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:ndn-190034
Registrant Name:Gavin Doughtie
Registrant Organization:Gavin Doughtie
Registrant Street1:825 N. Wilson
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Pasadena
Registrant State/Province:CA
Registrant Postal Code:91104
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.6266444286
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:gavinSPLATdoughtie.com
Admin ID:ndn-190034
Admin Name:Gavin Doughtie
Admin Organization:Gavin Doughtie
Admin Street1:825 N. Wilson
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Pasadena
Admin State/Province:CA
Admin Postal Code:91104
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.6266444286
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:gavinSPLATdoughtie.com
Tech ID:ndn-190034
Tech Name:Gavin Doughtie
Tech Organization:Gavin Doughtie
Tech Street1:825 N. Wilson
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Pasadena
Tech State/Province:CA
Tech Postal Code:91104
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.6266444286
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:gavinSPLATdoughtie.com
Name Server:NS1.DREAMHOST.COM
Name Server:NS2.DREAMHOST.COM
Name Server:NS3.DREAMHOST.COM
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So dead end then?

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Ok deeper digging I think this is a fake, the source of the website at
http://www.valenzettifoundation.org
reveals it was "<head><!-- Created with AOLpress/2.0 -->", so I'm guessing this is a dead end.
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[kmduke]

Hmmm, seems to be playing out a bit on this site
http://news.antville.org/stories/1363105/

So is this nothing, is this something with a faker trying to steal some thunder,
http://www.valenzettifoundation.org/
or is it something fake?

[Pixiestix]

[THX8612]

[Pixiestix]

Just to backtrack a little for a moment... to make sure it gets said...

[kmduke]

Thanks for that info Pixiestix! Have read much speculation on it, is good to know. It was very well done I thought, although alot of people were bashing it.

[Passenger 23B]

http://www.oas.org/culture/series1_b.html

An interesting site that mentions both "Magna Carta," "Macna Carta" and the philospoher Rousseau, as well as Lost-related themes. I don't think it's related to the show... but I think that this is the kind of stuff the developers are using as their source material.

Damon and Carlton mentioned in the March 28th podcast that there will be websites coming up in May for an "internet experience" I believe is an ARG.

I've actually done quite a bit of web research already and found several websites (again, that I do not believe are game-related) with information that the show's mythology will be building on. The valenzetti websites have a link to Amazon for Fantastic Voyage by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman. This is the kind of material, along with Ray Kurzweil's newer book, The Singularity is Near, that I believe have been instrumental in the creation of the Lost mythology and Dharma experiments.

I also received an email in response to a post I made on cloudmakers about me being one of the original cloudmakers that helped take down The Beast. When I googled the email senders name, I discovered a website that had to do with mining and the military in Australia. Hmmm. Again, nothing I believe is game-related yet, but the synchronicities out there are becoming quite odd.

[Pixiestix]

[Passenger 23B]

If there is an ARG that is building on mythology that has already been out there for almost 2 years (as opposed to mythology for an as-yet unreleased film as was the case with A.I.) I think we are going to see things like:

1) dealing with a lot of fakes and pretenders coming up in associated searches
2) the Puppet Masters intending the use of linked unrelated sites simply for their inclusion with related mythology and history, while otherwise being not officially "in-game"
3) the inclusion of ads like the ones seen in the valenzetti sites. Wouldn't it make sense in the real world the game is mimicking, for example, if you were going to a website that had to do with cereal, for example, that you would see links to other, non-game related RL cereal sites or advertisements for other public sites? It would then be a part of the gaming experience to discern where the official game trail faded into the RW, and some of the RW information might even prove pertinent in puzzle-solving the ARG.

[Pixiestix]

[Pixiestix]

WEBSITE: http://www.widmorelaboratories.com/

As noted on cubit.net, Widmore yet again appeared in a recent episode - "This is the third reference to WIDMORE on the show: 1) The WIDMORE CONSTRUCTION sign in Fire+Water (which you can't easily read, but the producers have told us that is what the London skyline sign says) 2) Sun's pregnancy test 3) Henry Gale's balloon"

So I went ahead and googled it. Perhaps it is too obvious, but maybe not - it is the first thing that comes up on a google search. The site seems to be broken in many ways.... Possibly a fan site{don't know how to do a whois}

[audioslave]

[THX8612]

WHOIS information for widmorelaboratories.com:

Edit: Audioslave beat me to it.