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Omnie · Entrenched Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 772

Regarding August 24, that's the day when Orson Scott Card was born (from that wiki posted in the blog comments). In Ender's Game (edited to put in spoiler tags in case people haven't read the book):

**Posted:** Wed Jul 21, 2004 11:44 pm

RobMagus

Interesting parallels indeed!

**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:14 am

SpaceBass

Very interesting, considering Ender's Game is supposedly being (very slowly) made into a movie. But the whole queen story came in in the second book, didn't it?

**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:13 am

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**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:06 am

aliendial

So did fireball respond to Dana's email about where to direct people who want to help out - like to UF or #beekeeping?

**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:28 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:32 pm

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**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:37 pm

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aliendial

Sorry - got to the mega discussion AFTER I read this thread. See my post there.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:08 pm

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Wishi-san

How many links do we even have? Very Happy

**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:41 pm

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rowan · Unfictologist Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1966

From a new comment on Dana's blog, it seems that a player has set-up a blog to record their thougts about ILB/SPDR/THA (or whatever its called) at http://ninemillionbees.blogspot.com

Not a lot of info, though he does mention CollectiveDetective, ImmersionUmlimted and our waiting room #ilovebees (and neglects to mention UF, but saucey took care of that in the comments).

Prolly the most interesting read is that he points to an article where 9 million bees were released on June 16th, and one month later ilovebees gets hacked. But, from what we can tell, this is a true incident (unless someone from the PM staff rigged the accident - but I think that's a stretch Very Happy

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**Posted:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:22 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:00 am

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Does the Honey link one still compute, though, even though it's one digit shorter than the others?

**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2004 6:57 am

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**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:24 am

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krystyn

Here's my pondering:

If this was not on purpose, then why do the following posts all get named with words? Is this a PM belatedly realizing that the post file names could be mistaken as puzzles, so they started a more innocuous naming scheme thereafter?

Is it possible to go back and re-name files/posts in Blogspot? I suspect not. It's possible they wanted to delete those posts and name them, once they realized the default, but why not just delete all the posts and start over, and create faux timestamps? Had they already made the blog live when they realized this?

I know I had trouble with this with Dina and Ethan's blog for MU, so this is more just a point of curiosity on my part than it is me saying, "omg omg there's a puzzle here, I know it!" There was a day I spent a goodly amount of time re-naming and ordering posts through the db backend, and oh man, I never want to have to do that again. Since Dana's blog is hosted at Blogspot, I'll wager they don't have that kind of db access.

So far, it looks like there's not enough info here to make this into a puzzle. I think.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:10 am

Ikkarus · Veteran Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 87

Response from Dana re: the wierd numbers in the blog links:

**Posted:** Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:52 am

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