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S.P.I.
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 		New Link
Just got an e-mail from *86. It had this link in it:

http://stareightsix.com/sources/

No idea what to do with it!
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OOG-Guy
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 		Re: New Link
S.P.I. wrote:
Just got an e-mail from *86. It had this link in it:

http://stareightsix.com/sources/

No idea what to do with it!


yeah it's weird.
Pick a number -any number,

http://stareightsix.com/sources/413321/

Anybody can translate the binary code blocks from that image to right of the pies?

I am assuming that is what is needed to get to the next page?
Also, the postmaster -is it Washington DC? Bristol citizens to Postmaster General?
Where is this pic taken? When?

thagomizer -stegasouras spikes. weird.
There was a mention of it from that Far side cartoon, and basically it's just a weird name for body part and not especially of any importance -so we think, lol

There is this word on plaque at one fo the famous museums, i think Smithsonian.

So many mystery here.

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TheParthenon
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 		Re: New Link
OOG-Guy wrote:


yeah it's weird.
Pick a number -any number,

http://stareightsix.com/sources/413321/


Signing in here as Jaybill and Amazing Larry's friend. Promise you, I don't have a big brain, but I can whip both of them at any given deathmatch game you'd care to name.

OOG-Guy - Picking any number really won't change anything. This is a WordPress site, and as such, a random string of numbers added after a relevant link won't amount to anything whatsoever. Using Jaybill's original post to blog about this (potential) ARG, http://jaybill.com/2008/11/30/stareightsixcom/ nets the same result as http://jaybill.com/2008/11/30/stareightsixcom/12345 and exactly the same result as http://jaybill.com/2008/11/30/stareightsixcom/25475565876977845343757856.

That's simply a function of WordPress.

Suffice it to say that I don't think we're looking for another blind URL entry at this stage of the puzzle.

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S.P.I.
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 		The image is named 'thagomizer', which is an arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of particular dinosaurs of the clade Stegosauria, of which Stegosaurus stenops is the most familiar. The tail arrangement is believed to have been a defensive weapon against predators.

The bold material is quoted from wikipedia.

And OOG-guy, binary?

EDIT: I can read the words 'Congratulations to the post office dept from the citizens of Bristol' in the photograph.
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OOG-Guy
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S.P.I. wrote:
The image is named 'thagomizer', which is an arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of particular dinosaurs of the clade Stegosauria, of which Stegosaurus stenops is the most familiar. The tail arrangement is believed to have been a defensive weapon against predators.

The bold material is quoted from wikipedia.

And OOG-guy, binary?


Didnt know that bit about wordpress. thnks.

As for binary, I am referring to that thagomizer pic and you see the pies which translate to 413321, and then that small block of what looks like bits on/off -after zooming far in on it

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TheParthenon
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OOG-Guy wrote:

As for binary, I am referring to that thagomizer pic and you see the pies which translate to 413321


As far as I can tell, the glyphs only translate to 41332 (not sure where you're getting that final 1).

As for the symbol after the glyphs, it does seem, after magnification, that it is much more deliberate than any other part of the image, though whether it is a binary function or not, I couldn't say.

EDIT:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
The picture matches up with this flicker photo of one "Postmaster James A. Farley" in 1938, which coincides with the time period of several of the pieces of film shot from the original video posted as "Part 4"


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OOG-Guy
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 		I need to sleep. I meant 41332.
It happens to be in Kentucky -if viewed as zipcode. Hazel Green. near Pine Gap weather station.
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S.P.I.
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 		I thought the square might mean 'mathematical' square, so I multiplied 41332 by 2 and got 82664. It was not an url however.

Are we supposed to e-mail the answer, try to look for a link, or a new website...what?
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FacianeA
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 		Hi everyone.
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
That's James A. Farley, a famous postmaster general. The big post office with the famous inscription in New York is called The Farley Building after him. Thanks wikipedia. I did a little creative googling and came up with the info that this picture was taken in 1938 during National Air Mail Week.


Now about that thagomizer, hell if I know. Haha.

EDIT: AH! Beaten to the punch!
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FacianeA
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 		Know what? I'll bet you a million bucks there's some steganography afoot here. That's gotta be the thagomizer clue's point. Like stegosaurus, for those of us who are awake at 2am right now. I have a Mac and I have trouble with steganography. Someone had better hook this mess up!
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natas
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 		anybody get anything from the QR code next to the pies? You have to take a pic of it with a cellphone that's able to read them. I dont' have a cellphone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
http://reader.kaywa.com/

ETA: Looking at it again, I don't know if it is a QR Code or not. It doesn't have the position markers in the corner, but it's worth a shot.

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Cog
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 		A Nokia Nseries will be able to read that barcode. Damn mine being stolen!!!!

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Leyton Stone
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natas wrote:
anybody get anything from the QR code next to the pies? You have to take a pic of it with a cellphone that's able to read them. I dont' have a cellphone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
http://reader.kaywa.com/

ETA: Looking at it again, I don't know if it is a QR Code or not. It doesn't have the position markers in the corner, but it's worth a shot.


It was a good theory Natas; I both took upclose and regular photos of the pic and uploaded it to my phone itself but can't figure out what to do w/ it.
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thebruce
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 		it is indeed a code. But it's a Datamatrix, not a qrcode.

It decodes to: *drumroll*
http://steghide.sourceforge.net/

running steghide on the thagmoizer.jpg with password 41332 produces a "sources.txt" file

Quote:
ALAS ARCING

53.9153 7.603
35.0787 -106.6182
48.371 3.1976
54.2365 -1.3087
43.6233 -70.4881
36.9445 139.4725
51.5248 7.8835
41.2513 -82.0597
19.3442 -65.7528


eta:
as gps coordinates, they don't seem to be potential drop points... farms, middles of nowhere, open water, etc...

53.9153 7.603 (off north coast of germany)
35.0787 -106.6182 (silver and stanford, Albuquerque)
48.371 3.1976 (outside paris, france)
54.2365 -1.3087 (thirsk, uk)
43.6233 -70.4881 (outside portland, OR)
36.9445 139.4725 (japan wilderness)
51.5248 7.8835 (near durtmund, germany)
41.2513 -82.0597 (outside cleveland, OH)
19.3442 -65.7528 (middle of nowhere on water, north of puerto rico)

"ALAS ARCING" doesn't anagram to anything, obvious at least, that I found
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 		Doesn't seem to form a pattern either...
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