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[Twee]

Ok, it's probably from the PMs since:

[EMTFIRE]

So, I went to the http://chooseyourrevolution.com/einstein.html page. And in viewing the source, noticed a link to Google analytics. This is basically what looks like the "push marketing" branch of google. Checking the official Google-analytics Blog, they will be at SES on June 12. SES is Search Engine Strategies which again, apears to involve pop up Marketing. I could be wrong, but is there a posibillity that we are being used as lab rats? Any thoughts?

[Sarah B]

The whole brief of the thing reminds me of the Random Acts of Kindness thing, though I know the guy who invented that was British, not American.

There does seem to be a rather high percentage of new posters suggesting surprisingly left-field remarks. I'm fairly new myself, so someone who's been around a bit longer should perhaps comment, but is that usual for a thing like this?

[PhanomKelvin]

Upper-Class High School Students from New York

Above is my key; I didn't see anything else on the page... I will be on the lookout though.

[blainehoyt]

is it significant that the bottom number is stuck at 11327?

[LandMASTER!]

[notgordian]

OK, stream-of-consciousness post.

I'm fairly certain I tried going to einstein.html a few days ago and it wasn't there...if my memory isn't just messed up (a distinct possibility) it looks like new pages are uploaded after the hints are put up.

I think the list of names / occupations was just a way to establish that we're dealing with smart, successful people here. As for the use of single letter names (the TWITS gang) I assume that's just following through the fictionalization of names used in some older French/Russian novels (I'm thinking Dostoevsky and Camus, specifically). Contacting / harassing suspected TWITters (heh...maybe twitter.com is the website he was talking about) would be of the bad, in my opinion.

As for Google Analytics, you'll see that in the source code of tons of sites--it's used for tracking visitor statistics so the webmaster knows more stuff about us.

The 11327 thing intrigues me. I'd assume SOMEBODY's registered since blaine's post, but it's still at that number (if somebody else registers and it's still at that #, please post to confirm?). At the very least, they must have disabled the auto-increase script.

[flipthefrog]

Am I late to the party, yet?

My code was "Poor Women from Lithuania"

Blog post can be found at [url]flipthefrog.livejournal.com[/url]

I'm kind of excited... this is my first ARG I've actually gotten the nerve to participate in.

[spilledchemicals]

another minority

[skullpanda]

I would say definitely the PM, since CYR=Choose Your Revolution

Do we know whose keys were used in the new page?

Also, his proof of E=mc^2 is wrong. Don't have the time to analyse it completely, but at very least hbar=mcr isn't right because both m and r are variables(mass and radius) and hbar is a universal constant. I have no idea if that actually matters.

[myf]

I've not been able to find who got the keys used on the Einstein page. Neither of them are on the list I've been keeping.

[Catriona]

[Violet_NightShade]

choose your revolution

[JonB]

[Jon B]

what happened to the annoucement, midnight on the 12th?