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Possibly some new information. The countdown skips seconds every minute.

I tried to establish some sort of pattern but it seems to just randomly skip 2 seconds every minute.
(this is a copy from my post at the IGN forum)
Ok some quick math. If we assume its dropping 2 seconds every minutei figured that from the time the countdown hits exactly 29days, there will actually only be 23.2 days remaining on the countdown. I cant make out how much is left until we reach 29 days since its obscured by the tree. This roughly works out to 23 days and 5 hours from when the clock strikes '29 days left'. I think this puts us somewhere around the 21st instead of the 27th. Interesting...

This is along the lines of 'nature does not follow your rules-the answer is right in front of you' hints...

John

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IS anyone else seeing these seconds drop off? Some say they are and some arent, it may just be a problem with syncing the site to your local clock...


John

[Miraz]

I am not seeing that, but I do notice it when I reload the page.

Are you using an auto reloader? That is what could be causing that to happen.

[Fardo NL]

This is because it gest out of sunc with your computer clock ... this happens when you have processes running ... or downloads ... It's not out of sync

[Alzheimers]

Unsubstantiated, but interesting:

[PDAisAok]

I believe this number skipping theory to be somewhat of a red herring along with looking into the theologian Origen and also THX's blog. I don't believe he's giving clues but rather was just posting an excerpt from a 18th century buddhist writing titled Heaven and Earth. It does tie in with the whole eastern theme that many are riding on with the Origen site but I believe it to be wholly OOG

[CyberKnight]

One thing that just occurred to me. There was that xbox360news forum where hints were dropped that it had something to do with something announced for Japan, but not for the US or Europe. Japan is all in one time zone. The fact that the countdown doesn't account for different time zones may lend some credence to the possibility that it's Japan-only, as everyone in Japan is going to see that clock count down to the same time.

Just a thought.

[Hova092]

being that microsoft is behind this, and they are TERRIBLE at keeping secrets as of late, i strongly agree that this origen hooplah must be about the "surprise" announcement for japan. however, i vote for a lock for a few days or so, because insane thoughts in the mind of the inteligent can a waiting game create. i think we've kinda over-philosophied this site. idk, i just think we've gone a lil over board, then again, going overboard has helped us in the past *thinks of day THX found the secret email address* ...idk, whadduyahthink?

[Yardarm51]

Again I doubt this is something that is Japan specific. My reasoning for this is that most folks over there know nothing about 360 and secondly most folks do not use the net nearly as extensively as us in North America or their neighbours to the west, Korea. If it was they would be using some other medium to advertise this coming announcement.

[Expletive]

I dont personally udnerstand the idea of 'locking' down threads. Let those of us who want to speculate, speculate. The rest of you all can join in whenever you like. This kind of thing must be peculiar to this forum because ive never heard of doing such a thing before.

John

[Phaedra]

[Hova092]

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Gotcha and your description does make a lot of sense. I'm getting the sense theres enough here to continue discussions but my n00b-ness in ARGs leaves me with not much of a barometer to judge.

Hopefully the pace will pick up on this soon and there will be plenty to discuss and uncover.

John

[Phaedra]

[MilesApart]

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The whois of origenxbox360.org

I did it on origenxbox360.com and it came up at Microsoft though. Hmmm.