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Hellboy II Viral/ARG?
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wkelly42
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 		Hellboy II Viral/ARG?
Picked this rumor up from ComingSoon.com. In the trailer for Hellboy II, there's apparantly a hidden URL. Not much there yet, but looks promising.

ETA: Google searchin hetfet shows a Craigslist Los Angeles ad that has recently been deleted by the author.
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR HETFET.ORGVOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR HETFET.ORG (Venice Beach). Reply to: comm-632049372SPLATcraigslist.org Date: 2008-04-06, 1:37AM PDT Volunteers Needed to Contribute ...
losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/vol/632049372.html - Similar pages

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 		so there is possibly going to be countdown?
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 		I spotted the Craigslist Los Angeles ad before it went down. It basically said they were looking for volunteer to help a non-profit.

The cute thing is that the Hetfet clue is only on the trailer streaming from the HB movie site. The Yahoo exculsive doesn't have it yet.

Maybe a nod to the dedicated fan?

I agree with others that Hetfet is probably alluding to a countdown for the fey's first strike (omen) at us.

Oh, just a cute sidenote, I discovered this post when I googled "hetfet countown."

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Waj
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 		Red herring? My "hetfet" googling turned up these intriguing, hellboy-occult sounding contexts:

..."yssa setham hetfet eoh"...
Hetfet ettocin sihe menon.

on www.geko.dk. This website then proceeded to break my brain. It's probably not related to hetfet.org - whois says it was put up in '01, but it's nothing if not enigmatic.

1)Most of the longer words show up nowhere else on the web, but the syntax of the site sure looks like it's real language.
2)Only mentions of site are in weird blog comments
3)Looks like the site is massive - many many pages?

Is this some strange dialect of Danish? Is it randomly generated? Is it in code? Is it related at all to hetfet.org?

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 		Wonder if the different wording of the source has any meaning.

has/hath
have/turned and
hath gone/runneth
has/already

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 		200804011832
There's something kind of odd in the source code. The code which pulls in the stylesheet has a superfluous argument which looks like a date:

Code:
link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/main.css?200804011832" type="text/css"


I can't think of any reason why a CSS document would need an argument, and as far as I can tell, it's not actually doing anything. As a date, then I guess that's referencing April 1, 2008. Is that when it first showed up?

(And sorry if this is something that's obvious from the trailer; I haven't watched it yet as the computer I'm at has no speakers.)

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 		Could be a dynamic style sheet... I'm doing a similar thing with my site.
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molecularr
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Nighthawk wrote:
Could be a dynamic style sheet... I'm doing a similar thing with my site.


How does that work? I mean, I've done style switching with javascript, but if it's appended to the path like that, wouldn't it have to be handled at the server level (for example, by setting up a mod_rewrite to handle it in .htaccess)?

I did some googling and couldn't find any examples like this one. I'm not saying they aren't out there, though, and I'm not saying that's not what's going on here -- I mainly just want to find out more in case it's something I need to add to my own bag of CSS tricks.

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 		Re: 200804011832
molecularr wrote:
There's something kind of odd in the source code. The code which pulls in the stylesheet has a superfluous argument which looks like a date:

Code:
link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/main.css?200804011832" type="text/css"



Actually, that's used to prevent a cached stylesheet from being used after the stylesheet has been updated. To a browser, it looks like a new address, so if that browser has the old stylesheet cached, the extra argument makes sure the new one gets loaded. No real mystery there.
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molecularr
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 		Re: 200804011832
Pavoreax wrote:
molecularr wrote:
There's something kind of odd in the source code. The code which pulls in the stylesheet has a superfluous argument which looks like a date:

Code:
link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/main.css?200804011832" type="text/css"



Actually, that's used to prevent a cached stylesheet from being used after the stylesheet has been updated. To a browser, it looks like a new address, so if that browser has the old stylesheet cached, the extra argument makes sure the new one gets loaded. No real mystery there.


Cool, thanks. That's good to know.

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 		also it can be dynamic - if the server parses the css with a non-standard html parse, it can run servercode before serving the CSS code. Similar to making dynamic images and whatnot - the browser doesn't know it's actually loading a dynamic file, all it knows is what the server serves it, and as long as it follows the file's mime type.

It could be dynamic. Seems unnecessary though if it's dynamic (why not just have a different file, rather than change the querystring?). So I'll second the theory it's for caching purposes. Still seems rather extraneous. *shrug* as it stands, there's nothing we can do with it anyway...
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 		wow, a whole bunch of stuff I have no idea about....lol i need lessons
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 		New limerick at Hetfet.org (edit to correct .com to .org) Sad

Rise up prepare to act,
The future is bleak in fact,
Unite as one,
Oh earthly son,
Protect the ancient pact."

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