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[UPDATE] Video on perplexcity.com (16th Feb)
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EclecticMunk
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You could also call it the "Fourth Wall" i belive this was orignaly a TV/Hollywood industry term, ussually used... Your braking the fourth wall... It was used in Family Guy in the "Reality TV" episode and is used in PVPonline in comics like in the early Panda Attack strips... But really Curtain will do just fine...
... and similar threads.

I'm kinda losing track as to what the hell all this has to do with the video.
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Laughing it was mostly a joke some were soon before my post about the fourth wall someone said something about using curve instead of curtain i was tring to point out there are alot of things we can replace curtain with and we could argue thise as i did ... but that curtain was good enough... but then people to my OT comment about an OT comment and ran with it... Embarassed Surprised

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kelsey_requiem
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video words and newspaper ads?

So my spec is that there might be some link between the words of the video and the newspaper ads. Like:

01 wrote:
not only an object of great significance to the city but also a technological wonder - USA Today 17.02.05
[no words]

02 wrote:
Able to trace it without any difficulty, wherever it may be. The Cube is - NY Sun 22.02.05
"there is a theory that has risen again"

03 wrote:
confirmed the thieves reprogrammed portions of the Academy's security systems, disabling three different - The Times 23.02.05
"across all relevant disciplines"

04 wrote:
the Academy, said in a statement today: "As is well-known, the Cube is a unique object, with certain unusual properties. We have full confidence that, using our knowledge of its composition, we will be - Daily Telegraph 28.02.05
"truly profound"

05 wrote:
"Find them and this will bring them to justice," Sente Kiteway, master of - La Presse 02.03.05
"shocking"

06 wrote:
security on the ball, to make sure no-one gatecrashes their exclusive party. In previous years the annual ball has been the occasion of various student pranks, including the sofas in the stairwell incident. - Toronto Globe & Mail 05.03.05
"all of our shared history"

07 wrote:
The Receda Cube is an archaeological artifact of unknown origin. It has unusual scientific properties, and has been extensively investigated by the Academy over recent years. Several religious and mystical groups - LA Times 08.03.05
"completely different lessons" [with a bit of delay]

08 wrote:
[yet unknown]
"a feeling of alienation"

09 wrote:
South China Morning Post 14.03.05
Our researchers have, instead

10 wrote:
[yet unknown]
"on the other side of the current" [curtain?]

11 wrote:
The Guardian 21.03.05
"a long period of comfortable familiarity"


There are some strange coincidences, like 06- the shared history: the sofa thing is a student prank on the cambridge university [maybe?]. and there's the Dirk Gently link, too... Well, I might be totally wrong about this, but i thought it was worth a post.

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Mikeyj
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That's a great idea!

I think thats really really interesting....but I can't work out what the hell it could mean. I think it adds an extra layer of complexity (perplexity) to the spec that I'm just not ready for, and certainly we'll have to wait to get the rest of the ads. I am sceptical though...why should bringing the perpetrators to justice be shocking?

Good thought, but I think that there would need to be a more concrete link, perhaps from a future ad to make me a believer Smile
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Nik_Doof
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i'd be careful about confusing Out of Game with In-Game.... I doubt theres no intentional link to Cambridge uni pranks...
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Salkunh
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i think theres probably more sofa on stairs pranks than enough going on at uni...I personally go for the simple moving all the markers for the boards so they cant write transliteration and hieroglyphic up on them but I'm sure if we had a sofa i'd put it on the stairs ^^

Just seems like a really esay prank to play...
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Has anyone started to wonder when the blank might be filled in for the newspaper before the 14th? I hope I don't rock up to work on Monday (the 14th) and find out that the blank ad appeared in my local paper on Saturday without me knowing about it.
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www.perplexcity.com/tmp shows that something was updated yesterday (Mar. 9th)
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gubble
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Just checked the video again and it seemed to download again like it was something new. Couldn't see any differences though.
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Daffy889
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gubble wrote:
Just checked the video again and it seemed to download again like it was something new. Couldn't see any differences though.


The file size hasn't changed, and from what I've seen of the codec the file size would go up if they changed the colour of a single pixel on one of the black screens, so nothing there.
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Nik_Doof
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as we know from previous happenings, the /tmp folder date update doesnt dictate that theres been a major site update....it could be anything from the PM updating a .htaccess file or doing a sync with a FTP tool...where cause the timestamps/filesize are slightly out it uploads a new version (happens to me all the time, cause the way Windows and Linux calcuatate file size is slightly diff, so it always looks smaller on the server than my PC.)
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kelsey_requiem
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no update in the video, i binary-compared it, too, and nope, still didn't change. but i'm checking it every hour or so, so ill let you know if i find anything. ^-^

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video was just updated all kinds of new stuff including a webcam url and something in NEW YORK marked NOW. check it out!

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yanka
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Just to be thorough - here are the updates:

NOW
NEW YORK CITY
SE FIFTH AND 40th
ALICE

19th MARCH
12h-13h GMT
http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk/virtual_visit/webcam/
ASK FOR DINAH

Edit: Fixed URL - Wishi-san
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You missed an 'a' from virtual Wink

Non-broken link - http://www.abbeyroad.co.uk/virtual_visit/webcam/

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