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[TRAILHEAD?] 08nova.com - Nobody Likes a Stalker

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:14 am

Aiobhan · Decorated Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 223

It seems to me that it's counting down to June 1st 4:00pm (in my timezone, anyway). 614? 611? I wonder.

I looked at the source HTML and found all of nothing. But I'm pretty new at this, so maybe some seasoned experts could check it out.

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:08 am

Rekidk

Here's what I found:

Well, in the source, it seems the countdown is from the Macromedia website. It seems a little odd that they wouldn't create their own countdown, but... Oh well.

The whois reveals that it's registered through Domains By Proxy, which means that there's something viral or secret going on here (at the very least).

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:12 pm

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Update. I still can't find any videos of 08nova's TV ad, but I just remembered that under the text 'Nobody Likes a Stalkers' at the end of the ad, it says 'Johnny 28:03', or maybe '26:03' sinze the text was a bit fuzzy. I'm going to look for any references to that and a connection between 'nova' and the number 8.

I can't believe I myself, an ARG newbie, found a recent trailhead! Yay!

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:19 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:01 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:22 pm

Snowbeat · Boot Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 30

It may be a series of ads for the upcoming movie Disturbia: http://imdb.com/title/tt0486822/

It's main character is a teenage kid; maybe the same one?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:56 pm

konamouse

Except typically viral marketing wants to build the buzz BEFORE the release of the movie.

Disturbia was released on Friday April 13th (and you'll see the star of the movie on Saturday Night Live tonight).

Could be another movie coming out in June?

**Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2007 5:37 pm

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Well here are movies being released the week of June 1st
nothing stands out

**Posted:** Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:22 pm

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Dunno what help it is, but I used a decompiler on the countdown.swf. Once it gets to the end it merely displays "It's Now Now Now!!!" flashing between yellow and red.

I'd also like to add that since the countdown seems to end at a specific user viewed time based on timezone (8PM for me), this is probably something related to TV not movies?

**Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2007 11:57 am

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**Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:21 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:37 pm

SBak723 · Kilroy Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 2

I'm not sure that this is really leading anywhere. I think that this is a countdown to a new show on the CW called Hidden Palms, that premiers on May 30th. But I guess we'll have to wait it out and see what happens.

**Posted:** Wed Apr 18, 2007 7:43 pm

Grifter_7

This same add appeared tonight during Smallville on the CW. Since both Smackdown and Smallville are on the CW perhaps we should keep an eye out for more of these commercials there. I'm TIVOing Supernatural in the hopes that it shows up again there.

**Posted:** Thu Apr 19, 2007 9:22 pm

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