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Little Boxes Archive Update - Document 101
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yanka
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Trivia

Probably completely irrelevant observation: why is the font in some archives "Times" (for example, #50, #47 "Times") if her style sheets are for Verdana (looks like)? Here are the tags as set by css:
Code:
<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><P>


But then somebody takes the time to overwrite it with
Code:
<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><P><SPAN class=Anomalysubmitted><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT color=black>

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I haven't gone through 'em all, but does the font difference correlate to the author of the document?
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Azathoth666 wrote:
I haven't gone through 'em all, but does the font difference correlate to the author of the document?


Nope. In total, there are 3 archives now in "Times":
#45 - Locusts; created by deleted
#47 - Sighting, Unidentified Craft; created by phillip
#50 - Electromagnetic Interference; created by beth

I remember seeing something about this on this board already; but these are also the only archives that come up if you search for "anomaly" - but that word is not in the text - it's in the source code. Are we supposed to do something with these?
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It's unlikely, but possible, that this is all happening after Neo uses the wrong door.

Con: The Architect told Neo he had only 24 hours until the Matrix shuts down. Allowing enough time for a proper "super-brawl" as well as some stuff that happens outside the Matrix, and other stuff, that means that by about 12-14 hours into that period of time, Smith is everywhere. That means that by the second hour in, he controls a healthy portion of the populace. don't you think we'd have seen "600 Million turn into MiBs" in the little-boxes archives by now?

Pro: We know from Goliath (jesus, what a trip) that the Machines can change time as they see fit. So, perhaps what we believe to be 24 hours out here is actually another two or three years. We don't know. Things would be going faster, wouldn't they?

-Strange... anamoly...

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I'm not sure that it was ever validated, but intrigued claimed that those tags are leftover from using Mircosoft Word to edit html documents.

See http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2534.

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archive archive archive

yanka wrote:
Azathoth666 wrote:
I haven't gone through 'em all, but does the font difference correlate to the author of the document?


Nope. In total, there are 3 archives now in "Times":
#45 - Locusts; created by deleted
#47 - Sighting, Unidentified Craft; created by phillip
#50 - Electromagnetic Interference; created by beth

I remember seeing something about this on this board already; but these are also the only archives that come up if you search for "anomaly" - but that word is not in the text - it's in the source code. Are we supposed to do something with these?


I checked this out a while ago, at least two archive updates ago, and found the same thing. I figure those are the first few archive pieces that were written by the PMs, then they changed their style and haven't corrected them.

As long as we're talking archive, does anyone know where old "current research" pieces could be found? There's one set on BriEnigma's little-boxes mirror that's been great - lots of little pieces of info that aren't in the archive for some reason (an exact date for one piece (forget which), a listing of "Aurora, NE and Lincoln, ??" in cow tripping) - it'd be great to see if there were any other changes in other articles that passed through there.

.... golly, I had just ASSumed that they'd be exactly the same in the archive. Who'd make such an ASSumption?

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AnthraX101 wrote:
I'm not sure that it was ever validated, but intrigued claimed that those tags are leftover from using Mircosoft Word to edit html documents.

See http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2534.

AnthraX101


Ah, yes, that's where I saw it. I saved a random .doc as webpage (as intrigued suggests) - there is no such thing in the source code. Maybe you have to fromat the doc differently?

But the strange, imo, thing is - that they come back as search hits for "anomaly". I searched for other random things in code - "table", "cellpadding", lol - and, of course, no search results; so source code stuff is not "searchable", but only that one piece of source code (anomaly, anomalysubmited) is?

aegir, I remember beyond any doubt that "red tide", "levitating cat", and "power grid failure" were in "current research" when little-boxes went up - but they are not formatted like this. Question
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had a thought when i was looking thru little boxes archives, perhaps this article 101 is the PM's way of saying - >> Hey all that talking of red this and red that is way off<< like we do in some of the other puzzles Question Sad Question
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yanka wrote:
I saved a random .doc as webpage (as intrigued suggests) - there is no such thing in the source code. Maybe you have to fromat the doc differently?

I think it's more likely if you load a page made with a different package.

Frontpage does all sorts of whacky things with tables to position items, for an example of redundant tabling see the source on the Cascade Vortex Site.

I'm not saying this is the explanation of the tags, which to me are downright suspicious for pages which have used style sheets from the start.

But I'm tempered by experiences on forums;

When posting I often use the mouse wheel to scroll, but if the wrong box is highlighted you get all sorts of whacky stuff.
Code:
[color=red][/color][color=orange][/color][color=brown[/color]

So I think it is a possible explanation . Very Happy
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I wrote:
had a thought when i was looking thru little boxes archives, perhaps this article 101 is the PM's way of saying - >> Hey all that talking of red this and red that is way off<< like we do in some of the other puzzles Question Sad Question


Also i think sometimes 101 also is beginners class number (we don't have it in denmark but thinj i saw it in a movie)
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Also i think sometimes 101 also is beginners class number


Yeah, illuminati_dk, in American college courses, the beginner level is often level 101, as in Intro to Basketweaving 101. So they may mean it as a thinly veiled insult. Of course, they may be referring to article 5, if they're using binary.[/nerd]

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joebrent wrote:
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Also i think sometimes 101 also is beginners class number


Yeah, illuminati_dk, in American college courses, the beginner level is often level 101, as in Intro to Basketweaving 101. So they may mean it as a thinly veiled insult. Of course, they may be referring to article 5, if they're using binary.[/nerd]


Hey and so they say you can't learn anything from movies Wink
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yes i could'nt help thinking of it as a insult/hint if the PM's for example looks at the 1. october picture thread and thinking we might need some help here (10 pages must be one of the longest) - someone mentioned that they probely was whatching our progress here /SPOOKY
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I thought I saw the 101 significance mentioned earlier in the game too, but (if I'm correct) not in relation to this document.

Apart from the famous Room 101 in Orwell's 1984, the number 101 is also very significant in the Matrix movies... in Reloaded, the Merovingian is on floor 101 of the office-building, there's freeway 101, Neo's appartment number is 101 and 101 appears on the wall in a scene with the Oracle. Now I still am VERY carefull in making direct links to the Matrix movies, but even apart from the appearances in the movies, I got a feeling that the number of this document being 101 still gives it a special meaning...
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