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[Salkunh]

what i find semi-odd is that in the complete "argh cube stolen" newspaper article doesnt contain a photo of the cube. I mean i know everyone in Perplex City probably knows what the cube looks like so wouldn't need to see a photo of it but everyone knows what the queen or prince charles looks like in the UK but when theres an article about them they still get a photo/pictue...seems kinda unusual

[fimacmo]

[Slithy]

I just noticed that the "Perplex City Sentinal" banner and many of the section header images are located in the www.perplexcitysentinel.com/furniture/ directory. (not accessible btw)

For example the "Perplex City Sentinal" banner is located at:
http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/furniture/sitewide/banners/frontpage.png

I know we've had some discussion regarding what "furniture" could possibly mean. Most likely, the /furniture/ directory is just a directory where the publisher of the Sentinal keeps certain recurring content. In other words, it most likely means nothing.

[tanner]

spring equinox today -- any significance??

sun is over equater

[Mima]

Kelsey, no offense taken. I just thought having waited this long, the PM's have had loads of time to get everything ready. They have given us the page, but we can't get in.

That to me just meant that we had to find a way to get subscribed. Otherwise we are at another dead end (for the moment). Surely if the game has started, there has to be a way forward, we just have to find it (its that lateral thing), and subscription seems like the next step.

Is there anyway to know if the site is or isn't checking for cookies? If it isn't checking, this wouldn't work, but if it is checking, is there anything stopping us from trying to guess the correct format of the rtf cookie file, saving it to the cookie folder, and having a go?

Mima (in great need of Kelsey's greater knowledge!)

[firefox]

[brat-sampson]

A 'key' seems like some kind of Minority-report style device allowing electronics to ID people and also allowing people to interact with the electronics. Clearly they have some kind of internet-like setup (sites with different 'pages') which Sente or one of his group have done their best to translate into something we can view here.

Contacting them seems impossible at the moment as they do not use standard email like us. I'm going to guess that all attempts at guessing emails will be fruitless. At least until they become aware that we're reading their paper at which point they might make things a bit more accesable to us.

Final conclusion, IMO it's time to play the waiting game a little more and continue speccing until they modify their paper to work better with our technology.

[Muffin]

People have been questioning the size of PC we haven't had any mention of other places.

However, the PC Sentinel paper has this to say in the advertising section...

[slapgravel³]

Anyone else find it odd that is says "sets" of eyes, not "pairs"?

[brat-sampson]

[wintermute_au]

i don't know readership amounts, but 5mil doesn't seem that huge for a developed city state...? also possible that ppl outside perplex also read

[edit: just saw the post above... note it says "seen" not "bought"... some aussie media outlets use the same trick cos they include all their web hits in their readership...]

my take on their web technology: (assuming they have _similar_ tech to our own)

i. all those pages that end in ".html" aren't necessarily static, they're probably using a mod_rewrite - pretty standard practice on any dynamic sites these days. it just takes the folder and file 'names', passes them to a script, and generates what looks like a static page... It could be doing all sorts of processing in there (whether its looking for keys or what)

ii. I suspect the 'EXTERNAL EDITION' is the version the paper's site automatically shows if you access it from outside of perplex city (an australian paper could, for example, detect the ip, guess if the user is in australia or elsewhere, and present a different page depending...). and wouldn't be surprised if the ext.edition automatically gives the date in AD format as opposed to AC (note the start of the new article as it appears in the guardian gives an AC and AD date)

and i suspect we will soon be given a way around the key issue -- unless someone finds instructions encoded in something soon!

-peter

[troubadour]

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London

[Scisco]

Hrmmm...

[mti]

I was just wondering if anyone is expecting any more emails in response to the address you put in at perplexcity.com. I put mine in about a month ago and recieved nothing, so im still expecting something. It may be the key to the newspaper. If theyve got out addresses, they can send us individual keys