Possible Spoilers
Following their Tues evening tradition of giving the Lost Experience webmazers updates, we have two new items for you.
First, a smallish update… or possibly warning of one to come. At thehansofoundation.org, click on the Genomic Advancements page, and then on the underlined word “disease” for a link. It opens up a countdown timer. It appears that when this update started, the timer clock was 24 hours. Persephone says: “Maybe it’s cuz I’m on no sleep… Having trouble breaking through… I’m gonna need more time.”
EDIT 6/7/06: The timer is now gone, and there’s been a slight update to the site. People appear to fall into two groups as to how they are able to see this update (and probably has to do with differences in how their ISPs cache websites). One will still be able to click on the link “disease”… if you can, do so. One group won’t be able to, in which case they need to find a small hidden textbox in the area at the bottom of the Genomic page to the right, next to the “Educational Outreach” caption. The password for this section is located in the comments section of this blog entry.
Other new development: During an episode of Boston Legal tonight, there was a new Hanso commercial, linking to a new site (this time sponsored by Verizon). It is called Retrievers of Truth, located at http://www.retrieversoftruth.com. Interesting ties to Vincent, I think; very weird stuff about Golden Retrievers at “Canine Clairvoyance Facts”. Sign up for the newsletter, and you’ll get an interesting email. And better yet, enter something that is NOT an email address (try “porter”)… and you’ll find something even more intriguing.
Weirdness…… I suggest not using any email for say, work…. some folks on other boards are having their email systems have major problems after receiving the newsletter email. But it definitely provides what could in the future be a good clue.
Speaker has confirmed this is a valid site.
Leann: Could you give us more details on “major problems after receiving the newsletter email”–like what the problems are? I noticed someone mentioned this on lostpedia as well, but I’ve had no issues (but I also always use dummy email accounts for this sort of stuff). I’m wondering how much this is just a rumor (one I’ve been hearing as well, but it’d be helpful to know specifics.
To keep people from needing to enter their emails for this, I will cut and paste the message that is sent to you:
Looks like you can put any word into the Retrievers of Truth newsletter sign-up field that isn’t an email address and it will go to that anti-Hanso site. And yeah, I’ll point out the obvious – that founder’s name is Vincent (dun dun DAHH!)
Anyone else find any goodies?
Okay, I have goodies:
On the subjugated Hanso site there’s a discussion thread called “Hanso in da house!” and they mention a website: http://emri.perception.net
Go to Active Projects and run your mouse just below the list of projects. You’ll see “Dharma initiative” pop up. Follow that for a treat.
Also, if you go to the Alvar Hanso bio page after a while a letter from the Global Health org. comes up. Plus that weird photo of Alvar Hanso is a bit more clear than we’ve seen before.
Good to know they’re giving us something to do during hiatus!
The IGA page of the Hanso site has ‘Retrievers of Truth’ popping up in the xray when you click on the cells in the photomicrograph above. There was also an invisible text field under the main picture. I entered ‘truth’ and nothing happened. Now I can’t find the field again.
samsam: The password is “parthenogenesis” (don’t ask me how I got this
). You have to reload the page in order to see the blank line again.
Julie: This is a bit confusing to explain, but the EMRI page is actually a fan site, not an official site. I actually know the guy who runs it, his homepage is on perception.net. I don’t think the link being in there is an official endorsement of it as being part of the webmaze, but rather just a joke that the Verizon guys are “on the same level” as the rest of us ordinary webmazers. Similarly, the Andy UK link is a real site… and DJ Dan’s last YouTube podcast had a screencapture of lostpedia’s page, which is also a fan-run site.
Thanks for the password – I never would have gotten that.
Parthenogenesis – anything to do with Sun’s baby?
Parthenogenesis: A form of reproduction in which an unfertilized egg develops into a new individual, occurring commonly among insects and certain other arthropods.
Yes, Cecilia, I am asking how you managed to arrive at this conclusion. >:P
Thanks, Cecilia. It seems pretty obvious now – the EMRI page is kinda sparse. Good for your friend for getting his site mentioned in the webmaze!
this is such a rubbish treat! i saw the dharma sign there in episode 2 season 2! am i missin something or what?
Here’s an interesting cross: Vincent was given to Walt by whom? His mother’s boyfriend Brian Porter. Does porter sound familiar? Not only is the word used in the email, but on the “History and Notoriety†page, it says the first Yellow Lab is born to an Australian family named… Porter.
Note also the places Walt’s mom moves to following Brian around, including Amsterdam. Hmm, Netherlands, De Groot, Hanso.
There are no coincidences in Lost.
The problem mentioned with email was that their email system shut down… I don’t know if its rumor, I suppose it is in the same way that anything posted on a forum could just be rumor. But at least 2 people mentioned that their email shut down, imploded, etc. and they had to spend time fixing it. I don’t know if its related, but I put in my AOL address knowing that I have good security and virus protection, I entered it 3 times separately (like several minutes apart, etc.) and did not get one email. I got one on another account with, well, lets say its my email address I dont read because of all the spam
and it came through fine.
Dom-
Great catch, I didn’t remember Brian’s last name. After seeing the Michael flashbacks in last night’s rerun, I was wondering the same thing about the moves – New York, Amsterdam, Rome – I was thinking she worked as a lawyer for some part of the company.
Parthenogenesis- the process is a form of natural cloning. In April 2004, scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture used parthenogenesis to successfully create fatherless mice.
[quote comment="3644"]Parthenogenesis – anything to do with Sun’s baby?[/quote]
Maybe it has something to do with Walt also? In the episode “3 Minutes” Ms. Clue asked Michael if he was sure that Walt was his son.
Wally Bole is an anagram of “yellow lab”.
[quote comment="3646"]Thanks, Cecilia. It seems pretty obvious now – the EMRI page is kinda sparse. Good for your friend for getting his site mentioned in the webmaze![/quote]
dont know if anyones interested but if you click on the alvar photo a letter appears. then if you go to life extension page there is another letter, at the bottom of this page there is a link which takes you to a submit box, havent figured what to put in it yet!
did anyone try http://www.retrieveroftruth.com without the s as opposed to retrieversoftruth.com? This could be made up by a fan but it’s pretty interesting. It talks about a cloning experiment gone wrong on an island off of Australia. Let me know what you think.
yeah skess, that website also comes up if you spell retrievers as retEIvers, so its retreiversoftruth.com
that means there are 2 ways to get to that website. I have been there before through the actual LOST website (not under that url) and I am sure it is genuine. they must just have done that on purpose?
On the IGA webpage I put the password “parthenogenesis†in the invisible text box and nothing happened. After I put in the password I hit the tab key and it took me to a little box on the lower left side of the @ 2006 Hanso Foundation text. When I click on it the light circles in the background move and the clock on the top of the page says OBEY. I don’t know where to go from there.
i typed in the pasword: parthenogenesis and pressed tab like nancy did. i realised nothing happened except a bsmall yellow box appeared in the bottom left hand corner of the website. when i clicked it, the circles of light in the background moved around in the background. i left the window open and carried on browsing elsewhere which is when i heard a sound. i went back to the hanso site and the clock at the top of the site had changed to “OB:EY” like nancy said. however, if you now click it, it loads up “http://www.sublymonal.com/”.
At the leftside, bottom about a quarter of an inch below in the http://www.thehansofoundation.org/
move your mouse around until a hand appears. When you click it, it moves the backgorund lights around. (Probably to help read something hidden.) That part is just a guess.
Sorry guys, been a few days gone. But I’m back now, to answer some questions…
Vid, hehe, I figured you might ask. I got a tip from a friend that this works. If you go into the ROT backsite (the Verizon “message board”), there is a link to a Verizon site called http://www.richerdeeperbroader.com. In the last line of the source code, it says “Parthenogenesis.” If you knew the biology term, you would see that this word was woefully misplaced in the code there; if not, you could look it up in wikipedia. It has bizarre ties into DSLerator’s comments in the forum in that same entry (“My features are identical to hers”; “my father was never in the picture”; mentions of a Japanese mouse). It’s a very, very roundabout method that I did not have to use (and probably, honestly, not something I would have assumed on my own), but it is supposedly the soft hint that could lead people to that connection.
As Cloe mentioned, retrieveroftruth.com and retreiversoftruth.com are mispellings of the real ROT homepage, and link to the known fraud site kroft. In NO WAY tied to the real ARG, just made by some poor hack who likes to prey on naive bad spellers.
I will probably put out a list of official vs. fake sites sometime this summer.
nancy & Jack: The OB:EY/sublymonal clue is a separate one and an older update. Go to the top of this blog page, and under the title of this article, click on Read More: The Lost Experience. This will take you to all the articles on the webmaze. Read the blog entries from the bottom up, and find the earliest post on Mittelwerk and Sublymonal, and you’ll find where these clues go.
nancy & Jack: I went back in the blog and realized that the title may have been difficult to find, because I had combined two clues in one post. To make it easier for you guys to locate, here’s the direct link:
http://www.lostblog.net/lost/tv/show/alvar-hanso-was-never-there#comments
i noticed in the episode with hurley in the pantry drinking the milk there is a picture of WALT on the carton with a big MISSING CHILDREN thing on it…. how important is that and did anyone else notice that??????
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