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[SOLVED - PUZZLE] CMH Beatrice Doe picture
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herichon
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 		[SOLVED - PUZZLE] CMH Beatrice Doe picture
Well, not so much a puzzle as a fortuitous observation.

This picture on the Cambridge Mental Hospital site, seems to contain a hidden message.

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Invert the picture - the name "Beatrice Doe" can be read as "Ann Starling". See attached file for an inverted copy of the image.


This in turn led us to another fortuitous discovery...

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Googling "Ann Starling" yields a handful of random sites, but one interesting "sponsored link" on the sidebar, leading to Dead Poems, a site about a book of poetry written by Ann Starling, an inmate of the Cambridge Mental Hospital. (A new in-game site!)


Thanks very much to RobMagus who deciphered the "Ann" part, and Dawn for discovering the site itself...

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konamouse
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 		Info on the new site:
WHOIS Info:

Domains by Proxy, Inc.
15111 N Hayden Rd., Suite 160 PMB353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: DEADPOEMS.COM
Created on: 29-Sep-03
Expires on: 29-Sep-04
Last Updated on: 05-Jun-04
Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration DEADPOEMS.COMSPLATdomainsbyproxy.com Domain servers in listed order:
DNS1.HOSTMATIX.COM
DNS3.HOSTMATIX.COM

Also, while we were searching around the site and noticing broken links and lack of webmaster email, these changes were made live. WoW!
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vpisteve
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 		Wow, that's a very nice solve. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:16 am
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flex12321
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 		probably unimportant, but the site is also a sponsored link at amazon.com. seems to pop up when searching for books containing the words 'dead' and 'poems'.

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flex12321
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 		add www.epinions.com to that.

PostPosted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 4:53 am
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herichon
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flex12321 wrote:
probably unimportant, but the site is also a sponsored link at amazon.com. seems to pop up when searching for books containing the words 'dead' and 'poems'.


I would venture to say that, since both the Amazon and the Epinions.com links seem to be based on Google's AdWords advertisements, this link probably shows up on a number of different places online. Heck, Google's new email system (GMail) uses this same technology... I bet one or another of us is going to send or receive an email discussing this Dead Poems thing and we'll see the sponsored link pop up on the side at some point. Smile

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 		Great work! It's interesting that UH has been giving a decent bit of money to google for advertising. Some of the other websites show up in the Ad section too.
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konamouse
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docvego wrote:
Great work! It's interesting that UH has been giving a decent bit of money to google for advertising. Some of the other websites show up in the Ad section too.


Which ones (under which search terms)?
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 		I think this is mos def in-game...

Once again the courier font, for the title of the book, and if you scroll down in the box ini the lower left hand of the main page, you get a small thumbnail of the same hospital pic that is on the CMH website...

I've emailed the webmaster, asking to be put on a mailing list. Deeper and deeper we go...
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 		Hi, I'm quite new to this whole thing, so forgive my ignorance. I found this poem on deadpoems and thought there may have been some code with the capitalization. Just a thought.

"aT Night ThE PaIN It sTArts TO eASe
As wOuNDs tHeY sTArT TO heAL
I wElcomE every nIGHtMare
ANd tHe FrEEDom ThaT I FeeL
reLEaSE ME nOW DeaTh"

" T N T E P IN I TA TO AS
A O ND H Y TA T TO AL
I E E IGH M
AN H F EED T T I F L
LE SE ME OW D Th"

"a ight h a t s rts e e
s w u s t e s r he
w com every n t are
d tHe r om ha ee
re a n ea "

If any of this makes sense to anyone, please let me know.

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SkratchPikCarrtune
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 		Trout We are already talking about that in this thread:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5260
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