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[ARG] The Society for Linian Studies
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Trillian
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 		[ARG] The Society for Linian Studies
THE COGNOMI THEORY of THE ANTARCTIC INTERIOR
Looking for ARGish stuff I found this announcement from April on boingboing.net some days ago:
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Exhibit about the civilization inhabiting the interior sea of an undiscovered southern continent

An exhibition of the Society for Linian Studies in the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles.

According to their homepage the SfLS manages and continues the studies of the deceased scientist Norene Z. Byrnes who researched the works of some 17th century scientist named Giuseppe Cognomi.
Quote:
"Cognomi claimed to have made contact with an advanced civilization he called the Linians after being abandoned by his ship on an island near Antarctica."


Lyman Emery is the director of the SfLS. His only friend on facebook is Randall Iriquois Podes. In Thisisrand's blog Randall writes about his stay on Sturge Island, a volcanic island in the Antarctic where strange things happen.

also related:
    * Ben Macker, an adventurer who's currently on a solo boat expedition on his way to Sturge Island.
    * The Benjamin Smyth Antarctic Institute. They call themselves "the Guardians" and seem to be opponents of the SfLS.
    * Peter Harbeson. His website Simplify Simplify has cryptic messages and hidden text mentioning, among other things, Benjamin Smyth, Cognomi, Rand, Antarctica and Dr. McGonigal.

There's lots of stuff to look into, which I'm doing at the moment. However the blogs haven't been updated since May and I'm not sure if this is still active. I contacted Lyman Emery on facebook and asked if he has heard anything from Rand. At least he replied that he hasn't. Dunno

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 		This is very interesting...

Have you been able to understand any of the stuff on the "Simplify Simplify" page? Because I can't Laughing

Also, his email is in the source: pharbesonSPLATgmail.com

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 		It IS somewhat chaotic, isn't it? Wink Maybe once the first puzzle is solved the rest makes more sense, after all it's call "Clue_1.png".

So far I have only bits and pieces:

- "Look at you. You got a lady": quote from the movie Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

- aliquot sum: a divisor function

- "Ross and Mawson missed it": Douglas Mawson and James Clark Ross were Arctic explorers

- "There's a fruit store...": lyrics from the Broadway revue song "Yes! We Have No Bananas. Shocked

- "A round Thomas Ravenscroft": Ravenscroft was an English composer. One of his rounds is "Three blind mice".

- A6M: A6M Zero was a fighter aircraft.

- luxuria, gula, etc: Latin names of the seven deadly sins.

- Hugo Carlaw, D'Arcy Nader, Allegra Geller appear in the movie eXistenZ

- "walk into light", "divinities" and "the secret language of birds": solo albums from Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull lead singer).

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 		I'll be in Los Angeles next week. If there are no Angelinos by then, I can drop over to the Panarama and see what's going on.

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 		Norene Z. Byrnes
One of the links on the Simplify Simplify leads you to this link:

http://norenezbyrnes.blogspot.com/

If you check out the comments to the one and only blog post, there are lots of strange entries from thisisrand. Longitude and latitude coordinates, references to the 1150 of the 1500, etc. etc.

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 		Looking at simplify simplify

First clue looks like a boggle board. That's how I'm attacking it.

the article in a bag

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
grammar based. answer is the letter "a"


aliquot sum 4

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
9 is the only number whose aliquot factors add up to 4


Tom where Dick had had had had had had had had had was correct.

Famous grammar problem
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Tom, where Dick had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" was correct.

There are a couple variations on this, but it should be noted that the original problem has 11 "had"s whereas this one only has 9. Is that important?

The second for Marie-Sophie.
My first instinct was (Marie-)Sophie Germain but she never had shildrem. There are a ton of other Marie-Sophies in history.
Perhaps it is like a crossword clue

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
deuxieme is French for second (order)


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 		Reading Thisisrand's blog reminded me of At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness

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Saint Cad wrote:
I'll be in Los Angeles next week. If there are no Angelinos by then, I can drop over to the Panarama and see what's going on.
It would be great if you could have a look at the place. Smile According to google maps the Velaslavasay Panorama is legit. I didn't know that such panorama 'theaters' exist at all. However, if I where you, I wouldn't spent too much time and definitely no money (for transport, entry, etc.) on it. After all we can't be sure that the ARG's still alive.


Arcas wrote:
If you check out the comments to the one and only blog post, there are lots of strange entries from thisisrand.
Ben Macker's noticed the comments on Norene's blog, too: http://benmacker.blogspot.com/2009/05/weird-comments.html


Saint Cad wrote:
My first instinct was (Marie-)Sophie Germain but she never had shildrem...
Marie-Sophie Germain might be right anyway. There are Sophie Germain primes:
Wikipedia wrote:
...a prime number p is a Sophie Germain prime if 2p + 1 is also prime. ... The first few Sophie Germain primes are: 2, 3, 5, 11, 23, 29, 41, 53, 83, 89, 113, 131, 173, 179, 191, 233, …."
Maybe '3' is the solution?


"the smallest is perfect":
Quote:
"A perfect number is a cycle of length 1 of s, i.e., a number whose positive divisors (except for itself) sum to itself. For example, 6 is perfect (1+2+3=6), and in fact 6 is the smallest perfect number.


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Trillian wrote:

"the smallest is perfect":
Quote:
"A perfect number is a cycle of length 1 of s, i.e., a number whose positive divisors (except for itself) sum to itself. For example, 6 is perfect (1+2+3=6), and in fact 6 is the smallest perfect number.


When I first saw that, I immedately thought 6 as well, but the grammar doesn't quite work.

Still working on Clue #1

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RAD24 wrote:
Reading Thisisrand's blog reminded me of At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness

Yes, it sounds familiar and there are more literary references:

comment on Norene's blog: 978-1932265200: It's the ISBN number of "The Hollow Earth" by Rudy Rucker.

The names Rand discovers in the cave(s):
- A. G. Pym could relate to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym Of Nantucket".
- O. Liedenbrock is a character in Jules Vernes "A Journey to the Center of the Earth"
- E.D. Malone: There's an Edward Malone in Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World"
- M.A.Reynolds: No idea who he is. Wink

Saint Cad wrote:
Still working on Clue #1
I'm trying substitution. No luck so far.

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Trillian wrote:

comment on Norene's blog: 978-1932265200: It's the ISBN number of "The Hollow Earth" by Rudy Rucker.

The names Rand discovers in the cave(s):

- M.A.Reynolds: No idea who he is. Wink



Try, "Mason Algiers Reynolds" The protagonist in "The Hollow Earth".

Lots of related info, here.

Or, was the wink your way of saying you were "ignoring" the connection?
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Rogi Ocnorb wrote:
Or, was the wink your way of saying you were "ignoring" the connection?

Not at all. I added the wink after I typed the names and realized that I can't fill the gap for Reynolds. Sort of laughing at myself. So thanks for the info! Laughing

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 		Research Assistant
I applied for the research assistant job the SfLS advertises in their News section and received a reply:
Quote:

From: The Society for Linian Studies [daniel.cooperSPLATliniansociety.org]
To: <tricia>
Subject: RE: application

Ms. McMillan,
Thank you very much for your interest in the Society for Linian Studies.
I'll be in contact in the coming days with a short questionnaire and a tria=
l assignment.

Thank you again for your interest.

Daniel Cooper
Minister of Information
The Society for Linian Studies


I really hope the assignment won't include the clue_1.png! I'm still stuck there.

Can someone tell me what "symmesulation" (on the SimplifySimplify-Site) means? Even Google doesn't help.

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 		Looks like the Simplify page has changed - just the first clue image now and this in the comments:
Quote:
That other stuff was not directly related. Examine Norene's office.


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 		This is in the source for the Simplify page:

Quote:
A peculiar site that rewards those who puzzle it out. But reward not so grate, aktualy


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