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[Ralphomon]

War Against Robots Defence?

[GalvanicSpiral]

Darn, that is one sexy site right there. And the music ain't half bad, either.

Believe it or not, this looks genuine. I must say this Ben Way character sounds a bit "eccentric." Here are some links for you guys to peruse.

Article at the Telegraph about Ben's company: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/richard_tyler/blog/2008/09/15/war_against_robots_the_new_entrepreneurial_frontier

Here is another website that might be related, focusing on how creepy robots are becoming: www.robotsareevil.com

And finally Wikipedia, with an article on Ben Way, the progenitor of all this foolishness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Way

I also sent this company an email, but it was returned with error 550: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table (state 14)

Ah, well. I tried, anyway.

[Boomer52]

I dunno... the contact info, the restricted areas.... seems to shout to me. I sent an e-mail, which promply bounced. Do we have any Londeners who might be willing to give a call?

[Trustiva]

Yeah, that Ben Way guy (as mentioned in the 'latest news' block) really seems to exist. And he already appeared on Channel 4 before. Maybe even that short film really exists.

These robots (that running robot from the front page) reminds me of the robots in I, Robot.

Oh, and an alternative address for www.wardefence.com is http://www.makingrain.com/war/ as you will find in the source code.

Without the /war it goes to www.makingrain.com. And this seems to be a serious 'let's help other start-ups' group of Ben Ways?

So maybe he is even serious with that war stuff? Or it's an inside joke he made for himself... and not an ARG.

[Tresbien]

In the source code: http://www.makingrain.com/war/ and Weapons Against Robot Defence Company.

[Trustiva]

So, yeah, I think he is serious about it (maybe with a winking eye):

Ben Ways:

[Boomer52]

That's disappointing. This looked good.

[BubbleBoy]

I knew that I've seen this template somewhere before:

http://www.templatehelp.com/preset/pr_preview.php?i=8822&pr_code=O6Ud0y1Y2bLnw8zG39UkQBl2G4TJ2B

I shop at that template web-site all the time to get ideas for different sites. The reason that I even mention this is because it would seem odd for a company to use a template for their web-site, isn't it (especially one formed by a millionaire)? I would think that they would want something that purely defines them and the target market that they are trying to reach. Even the "robot" is the same. I'd think that they would want to show "their robot", not one created by someone else to sell on a template web-site.

I'm not saying that it's an ARG, I'm just saying that it may not be what it is supposed to be. Meh! Who knows? Maybe he wanted to create his own ARG?

EDIT: And whoever did this site (edited it for the purpose of the "Weapons Against Robots" site) was messy. If you'll notice in the original template there is an "enter e-mail" box on the bottom right. On the "WAR" site this box has been deleted but the cursor still moves through it like it's supposed to be there. Even I'm not that sloppy and I'm pretty bad when it comes to these sorts of things.

EDIT2: I called the listed phone number, let it ring for a minute then gave up and hung up. Calling Long Distance isn't cheap. I called at 6:44am EST, so it had to have been around noonish there, a strange time for someone not to answer the phone. No voice messaging service answered or anything like that so I couldn't leave a message. I'll let you know if someone decides to call long distance back to me. Doubt they will, but it was worth the shot.

[Ralphomon]

Thanks guys. I just thought it looked interesting. Ah well, I'll keep an eye on it, see if anything happens, but it probably isn't an ARG.

[The Mirror]

I think so too

[benway1]

 Hi Guys- Unfortantly not an ARG