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[DeadbyDawn]

I've been looking at that as well. The first thing I thought of when I saw the 4D was Hex, but no dice. L337 is just a bunch of I's and O's. I'm pretty much tapped out on ideas for the times.

EDIT: I just noticed that there is a gap with only one post within a 2 hour time period. What does this mean??? I have no idea!!!

[EnigmaFisk]

i think (or in other words guess) that the 4d is just a reference to time travel like shy had brought up...the minute our boy joins the chat the clock starts rolling backwards....now it may have been just to get the clock to 15 til....then again the homey might be in a time bubble cause of the clock

me personally I cant wrap my head around how we research tomorrow with scratch to go on......

[DeadbyDawn]

[Dandelion]

[DeadbyDawn]

Brainstorm

[Coffeebean]

I found this, the term "midnight" refers to time of distruction.....

[Omega]

[Euchre]

I don't know that you need to bother with hexadecimal, as previously noted the timestamps get goofy after Anonymvs logs in. You'll also notice that once the Targets.bmp file is obtained, the timestamps act as a timer counting down from 15 minutes, although the seconds are now in hundreths. The only deviation from that is in the server's notice of logoff, which is basically a post as noted by the chat server. Keep in mind that the other timestamps are generated by the chat client - hence why there'd be a difference. This implies that Anonymvs has manipulated Tomorrow's client. That might also explain how the file was obtained, unless Tomorrow was foolish enough to have left it in a DCC shared folder.

[pancito]

Good work, Omega. The other thing to note is that 3:33:33 is a hinge sorta. Everything after reads top to bottom. Everything before reads bottom to top (countdown mode).

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Just 'cause I didn't see it anywhere in the thread, so far...
The "Owner" of the clock is a University of Chicago based foundation called, "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists".
The clock has never actually been set to 11:45, though there are a lot of pop culture references to that time on the clock.

ETA: I keep wondering what those hours:minutes:seconds would look like as hex RGB values in say, a 7x4 grid. Guess I'll play around with that.

[shylilembrace]

hmm, i'm wondering if the mouse/cookie thing is relevant... "Give the mouse a cookie and he'll turn the clock.." maybe we have to move things about?

Edit: The chat server used appears to be AIM, the coloring is right.

[ineffabelle]

I just started following this and I'm not thinking very clearly right now so forgive me if this is way off...

BUT

If you give a mouse a cookie... he's going ask for a glass of milk... I assume you read that book as a kid...

it seems to merely be referring to the idea that if one country has atomic weapon technology then more countries will want atomic technology so they can defend themselves prompting the first country to want more atomic weapons and so on until our constant need for one more thing leads to our own annihilation.

Also reminds me of the book "This Is the Way the World Ends".

[Euchre]

I get a small hint of "The Mouse That Roared" in there too.

I find it funny that the chat dialog would seem to be from AIM, because AIM would be a pretty sadly insecure way to share a file - as evidenced by how easily Anonymvs snags it I suppose. However, does AIM use the server's message to show the time a user has logged off? I think AIM uses all time references from the local system.

[shylilembrace]

Well, maybe we can assume Anonymvs messed with the times for some reason.....and ya, it gives server time, which is why the time stamps are semi-alright for that.

Edit: I was never involved in this mouse cookie conspiracy you all speak of! unless it involved a moose and peanut butter...

[Dandelion]

Nice work Omega :]