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[cmlobue]

[poozle]

[volvox]

I submitted a request to MAKE magazine's site (www.makezine.com) and BoingBoing.net to put findsatoshi.com in their blog links. Don't know if anyone else had tried that yet, but hopefully they will find it intriguing enough to do it.

[Rorx]

After a pretty confusing and long conversation about why I wanted to know if she knew him, my girlfriend came to the conclusion that she thinks she works with him. I doubt it but I may just invade her work-place to find out...

Apparently he smiles alot...

EDIT: Forgot to mention she wont ask him if he's a One in a Billion incase he thinks she's comin' onto him. Damn.

/Rorx

[YahwehTzVaoth]

I thought that maybe since you have to be a billion to one to get him, he might be a member of the Giga Society, but he isn't. They're a crazy high IQ organization. By "organization," I mean six dudes. Anyway, I sent them an email seeing if they have any bright ideas. It reads:

"I was doing a research project on the history and effectiveness of IQ tests and I came across a Wikipedia article that listed the Giga Society as the most exclusive high IQ society. I though, rightly so have looked through your website, "They must have four guys, if that." Pretty close to the mark.

The reason I am contacting you is that I play a sort of game called Perplex City. In it there are a number of puzzle cards to solve. One of the puzzles is entitiled "Billion to One," the approximate odds of someone having an IQ about 190 (on most tests). I became fairly excited that the answer would be in your organization.

This is one of the very few puzzles that have not been solved in the game. It essentially is a picture of an 25-40 year old asian gentleman with Japanese text which, when translated, reads "Find me." It has also been revealed that his name is Satoshi. More can be found at http://billion2one.org/.

I was very disappointed to discover that Satoshi-san is not amongst your group. That being said, the reason I am sending this message is to enlist your aid. Thus far the project to find this person have relied upon the basic premise that eventually someone will hear about the search that who knows the man. What procedures would you recommend to help answer this question. In other words, how would you conduct the search?

There is a reward, but that is not really my drive in being involved this finding this solution. I just get a kick out of there being a chanllenge issued to players which is increasibly simple describe, yet almost insumountably impossible to achieve. In addition to helping do the impossible, your society would gain a great amount of fame in the alternate-reality game community if you could hepl develope an effective protocol.

A final comment is that I think you have a great logo. How did you come up with it?"


Maybe this'll work. To meta out the answer, Satoshi probably lives in England and knows the Mind Candy people....or some guy doing a socialogy study in Japan. Maybe he's reading this right now. But, if its the former, if anyone lives around Mind Candy, feel free to stalk the people who were in the company when this card was released. You might just see him or her having drinks with Satoshi.

[volvox]

[mvbrewer]

This might be a long shot, but I was thinking about a connection between a Japanese man(Satoshi) and the Alsace region of France. I came across the film Howl's Moving Castle through Google. Miyazaki has said that his setting was based on a pre-WW1 Alsace. I also noticed that a Satoshi Takabatake worked on the film. Just throwing it out there.

[poozle]

[El Neil]

hey guys,

theres a rumour-arg on at the moment called "yori". heres one of the pictures we were given:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=12184

in the top-left quarter theres a guy photoshopped into one of the windows, who looks a lot like satoshi. what do you think?

neil

[pineapplejelly]

Looks like him to me! I don't think that counts as a finding though - more of an elite reference, like giving 42 as a valid answer for a quiz question as well as the actual answer.

[volvox]

Yup, sure looks like him. Same pose and everything. Bet the cropped him out of the card. I bet it is just an elite reference, but it could mean something. Well, something in the other game at anhow.

BTW, nice to see someone still looking at this. I've never really attempted it myself since I've been occupied with Gel Together and other cards I haven't finished.

[El Neil]

[Thomas Bookmore]

[GinGenie]

Hello, anyone still out there?

I have a possible idea. A few years back an augmented reality game called Tokyo, can you see me now? was played in which real life people on the streets chased virtual online players. When the virtual players were caught, a photo was taken of the place they were caught at. The website is still up at

http://www.canyouseemenow.co.uk/tokyo/en/intro.php#

If you go to sightings and search for Satoshi there are four photos, with various Satoshi names. One of the photos is of a fence with a poster on it, and the poster has a number written on it.

[Scott]

*tap-tap* is this thing on?

The Washington Post has an interesting article about the six degrees thing. Using one instant messenger system, and taking note of who IMs who, they came up with closer to Seven Degrees of Separation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103718.html

The study doesnt seem to really address brand fFavoritism -- is it possible the MS IM community is looser knit than, say, the skype community? I don't use MS IM at all, fFor example. Still, it's a pretty nice article on the subject.