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[MrToasty]

[konamouse]

A Buddist cries - Thelonius Monk?
while Duke Ellington is on the side of the river - On the River Bank?
Yesterday - was Saturday May 17th
1365 - ??????

[drizjr]

Sorry about that MrToasty. When I found the vimeo site, I had already logged onto Nate's blog. I guess that's why it opened for me.

As for "A Buddhist cries, while Duke Ellington is on the side of the river. Yesterday, 1,365 lost innocence."
To me it reads like one of those cryptic crossword puzzle clues. Just thinking out loud, maybe it's a play on the letters in randomknowledge...
Buddist's chant/ OM
cries/OW
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington /ED
side of a river could be/EDGE
?

[Sylvia]

ok I'm going to add my 2 cents, not that it amounts to much but you never know.

The email we got, or at least the one I got, from RK yesterday was like this:

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Duke Ellington Lived on Riverside Drive in New York @ W. 106th St., which was later renamed "Duke Ellington Boulevard".

Haven't been keeping track of this one, much. Was it ever determined to be related to Google or any other sponsor?
Could it be somebody like Wei-Hwa Huang just trying their hand at an ARG?

ETA: Best guess on the last part:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_VI_the_Roman

EDIT 2: Or possibly a biblical reference:
Numbers 3:50, specifically.

[mousekinn]

[Avandas]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Agreed about the heads asploding.
It it were Wei-Hwa, I'd expect all the blogs and such to be Google properties, though.
It does seem to have a Shinteki/BANG/The Game kinda feel about it, though.

ETA: Did we ever fully complete the paper crane puzzle? The blog entry about it would suggest that we didn't, as there's no "solve" posted.

"TOP 77"
(A)Alpha
(Ω)Omega
???

[catherwood]

what stands out for me are the starting letters:
A Buddhist Cries, while Duke Ellington
is on the side of the river.
It's just saying ABCDE... to me. Then the numbers make me think of indexing:

[alexbutterfield]

Pretty impressed with Catherwood's logic. Very inclusive of the whole riddle and I hope it's the right solve.

I do have some reservations though...

I'm not sure that "A Buddhist cries, while Duke Ellington" can be read as ABCDE. If "cries" was capitalised to "Cries" (or even another proper noun was used for "C") then fair enough but as it wasn't, it makes me doubt it a bit. And although ABCDE is definitely in there it seems a bit forced to ignore "while". If ABCDE was the PMs intention they could have omitted "while" with little difference to the riddle.

And I agree with Catherwood's reservations about YSRE being out of order - if they wanted YSER they could have just used the date 1356 instead of 1365.

however LAND was out of order, as ANDL, and YSER is a river which is in the riddle - and there was a WWI battle of the YSER which could be seen as "lost innocence".

I think Catherwood has emailed the solve to RK, so I guess we'll see. fingers crossed. In the meantime I guess I'll keep thinking.

[Wireless]

Proof the Dr's death wasn't an accident.

[memehunter]

Buddhists... link between emails?

[memehunter]

more Buddhism, emails

[konamouse]

memehunter - i like your thinking.
if the statue has tears then i'm going to agree with this direction of thinking.

regarding the video - the scuba gear caught my eye first thing - any regular diver brings his/her own equipment! so it's another clue that there was NO accident in Belize.

the desk area WAS a mess. some scientists are slobs (i worked with an immunology researcher like that - couldn't find anything on his desk) but some are very meticulous (obsessive about order).

why didn't Nate open the computer or look at the lab book?

why did he put the camera down where he did for so long and then just turn it off? what was that chart behind the computer?

[Andh]

Hi everyone