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Falstaff
Greenhorn
Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 9 Location: New South Wales
[NEW|SPEC] Exe I'm new here, so I'll apologise in advance for any clangers.
I found this suspicious website by following a link from RealityCarnival which was labelled "Man claims that symmetrical symbol is beginning to appear throughout the world."
The title of the target page is "Exe - The Beginning Is Near."
The site purports to show evidence, gathered by a guy named Exe, that a strange symbol has been manifesting in the natural world.
A contributor to this thread (which Exe started) reckons the symbol resembles the Yamaha logo. I agree.
Clicking on the symbol in the photos on exexexe.com takes one here , where a counter is counting down to 1 September.
The name of the javascript for the counter is countdowntochina.js. Some of the font classes in the source code for the page include the name "Dana." References to ilovebees.
The name servers for both sites - exexexe.com and commonspace.com - are hosted in Hong Kong, by two different companies, one of them a media company.
Immersive/viral marketing ARG?
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:08 pm
dvw
Boot
Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 67 Location: UP A CREEK
crop circles....symbols.....Mayans
BEN STOVE IS ALIVE
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:21 pm
ancalime
Unfettered
Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 341 Location: Paragon City
I think someone got a little too inspired by the Microsoft Xbox "Hex168" contest...
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:50 pm
AngBa
Unfettered
Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 532 Location: the pit of misery, KS
dvw wrote:
crop circles....symbols.....Mayans
BEN STOVE IS ALIVE
HAHAHAHA dvw!!! That's exactly what I thought when I saw the site!!!
ETA: Oh, and I got this from http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/message.php?page=3&messageid=281339&showdate=8/28/06&mpage=1
www.commonspace.com
Another countdown to something...
_________________Played: WiBS; AV; Enoch of Gatewood
Watching/Interacting: Gabriel Lawson???
I'm only angry because I hate bananas...
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:57 pm
Falstaff
Greenhorn
Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 9 Location: New South Wales
AngBa, I appreciate the corroboration.
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:49 pm
Esteed
Entrenched
Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 1147 Location: Delaware
I'm in on this one. Looking into commonspace now. The words at the top give you different articles, except Viral, which is a link. But the page doesn't seem to load correctly...
_________________"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."" -Rorschach
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:51 pm
AngBa
Unfettered
Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 532 Location: the pit of misery, KS
Falstaff wrote:
AngBa, I appreciate the corroboration.
No problem! This looks like fun
For what it's worth, like Esteed said the "VIRAL" link doesn't seem to be working, and now I can't get the exeexe site to load either. BUUUUT... here is the profile for the person responsible for posting the videos on youtube, if we need it for later reference.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=daijetmiu
Googling the user, it looks like they've thrown them out there on several sites in the last couple few days. The counter is saying 3 days, so I guess it's time to hurry up and wait!
_________________Played: WiBS; AV; Enoch of Gatewood
Watching/Interacting: Gabriel Lawson???
I'm only angry because I hate bananas...
Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:10 pm
Esteed
Entrenched
Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 1147 Location: Delaware
Someone already mentioned a reference to I Love Bees, but I thought I'd share two others I noticed. I didn't play ILB (I had my head too far up my "PlayStation is God" ass at that point to own an XBox) but I've been reading about it recently and I even visited the old site. One thing I notice is that the countdown, and the text directly above it, on the commonspace site appears at least slightly similar to the countdown from ILB. Also, a program is mentioned in the text above the countdown called SPDR-5.14.3, which reminded me of the SPDR program from ILB.
_________________"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."" -Rorschach
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:05 am
Nova Loop
Veteran
Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 132 Location: wherever i go
Ok for the last day I thought ya'all were crazy cause I didn't see any countdown. Today I tried in IE (I usually use FireFox) and viola! There it is.
Just as an FYI for anyone else who has the same problem.
_________________064071062060067067066071067063066070062060064071062060066070066061066064062060
067064066071066104066065062060067064066106062060064061065062064067062105060060
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:14 am
AngBa
Unfettered
Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 532 Location: the pit of misery, KS
Ok, the reason the "VIRAL" link wouldn't work last night is that the EXE site must have been down. It seems to be working now, and it takes you back to the EXE site.
_________________Played: WiBS; AV; Enoch of Gatewood
Watching/Interacting: Gabriel Lawson???
I'm only angry because I hate bananas...
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:57 am
Esteed
Entrenched
Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 1147 Location: Delaware
We're nearing the end of the countdown now. Now, I suck at math so this might be slightly off, but by my calculations, it'll be 11:30 pm Eastern time when this thing finally hits 00:00:00:00:000. As it happens, I like to stay up relatively late and I intend to be part of the Ocular Effect live chat, so I'll still be up. If people want me to watch the countdown and report on what, if anything, happens when it ends, I can do that.
_________________"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."" -Rorschach
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:40 am
Falstaff
Greenhorn
Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 9 Location: New South Wales
Thanks, Esteed. I think that would be great.
As I type this, I'm working on a presentation of my idea of What It's All About, based on a bunch of clues on exexexe.com. I hope to have it finished and a PDF of it linked to this thread before midnight hits.
...coffeecoffeecoffee...
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:52 am
AngBa
Unfettered
Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 532 Location: the pit of misery, KS
Ok, call me stupid - but I checked the ticker last night around 7:30ish (CST) and it roughly showed 1 day 4 hours... I just jumped on to check and it was showing 1 day 5 hours Did this "event" that was supposed to occur get pushed back about a day? This would mean that it would be around 2:00 (CST) tomorrow. If this is correct, I'll still be at work, but can at least follow along here - just won't be able to IM or group chat until I get home...
_________________Played: WiBS; AV; Enoch of Gatewood
Watching/Interacting: Gabriel Lawson???
I'm only angry because I hate bananas...
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:40 am
Falstaff
Greenhorn
Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 9 Location: New South Wales
I still see it counting down to 1 September.
EDIT: Hang on... looking at it now, it seems to have been pushed back about 14 hours.
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:54 am
Esteed
Entrenched
Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 1147 Location: Delaware
Yeah, after refreshing the page, I see the same thing AngBa does. Unfortunately, I have a trip planned that starts early tomorrow morning, so I won't be here to see what the countdown leads to. Hopefully somebody else will be able to be there to see it hit the big 0 and report on what it says. I'll be checking back once I'm back home, but that won't be until at least Tuesday or Wednesday.
_________________"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."" -Rorschach
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:20 am
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