Leave Clues by Rubin Starset
April 24th, 2008 8:42 PM / Location: 37.764989,-122.4219
The color printer wasn't working.
I left a repeating cryptical trail of information.
Overlaid with my message.
Obfuscated.
All that hard work.
The outcome, left at a lonely inconspicuous house in The Mission.
22 vote(s)
Herbie Hatman
5
Tøm
5
Myrna Minx
5
Dax Tran-Caffee
5
Evil Sugar
5
anna one
5
JTony Loves Brains
5
Lincøln
5
Loki
5
Sparrows Fall
5
scotbotmosh
5
Møuse
5
Lank
5
Ziggy C.
5
Bubblesort's Ghost
5
Blue
5
Bex.
5
Secret Agent
5
H L
5
GYØ Ben
5
carry_me_Zaddy
3
Niko
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He's not back yet - we need to solve the clues!
1/2: I'm hot on your trail:
My house might be inconspicuous, but its not so lonely...
Have we reforgotten you?
Forgive us. (Though apparently some never knew you in the first place).
:)
But we await your return.
What the hell is context hacking, anyway?
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=365677467&blogID=384012040
What happened on April 25th at the MacArthur BART?
And why is he giving out Sam and Ian's phone numbers?
http://is.gd/7ic
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p1333
It's late. I can't put it together. Loki, we need your help.
Neither Sam nor Ian's number on the screen are the numbers that I have for them. I am calling the numbers right away.
What is listed as Sam's number just keeps ringing, no voicemail - probably not a mobile phone as the screenshot indicates.
"Ian's" number is an office... I think the receptionist said something about a job. I told her I had the wrong number.
http://is.gd/7ic
This is where the URL takes me, but it doesn't seem right.
Thirty and four people had been wounded for return of 19h20 of this friday (18) in the accident that involved a truck, four bus and three cars in km 16 of the Highway Raposo Tavares. The stretch of the highway is urban and cuts the quarter of the Butantã, in the Zone West of São Paulo. For return of 20h, the Body of Firemen counted circa 20 victims. It has six cars of rescue in the place, beyond at least 20 ambulances of the Service of Medical Attendance of Urgency (Samu). In accordance with the City department of Health, good part of victims were helped in particular vehicles. The interior sensible track is blocked. The employee of a motel located in the same point of the road affirmed that the victims are being helped in asphalt. For return of 20h15, the accident provoked lines of four kilometers. The victims had been taken for seven hospitals: Hospital of the Clinics, Hospital University, São Paulo Hospital, Hospital of the Lapa, Regional Hospital of Osasco, Municipal Hospital of Osasco and Bandeirantes Hospital.
perhaps I misread it, and the URL is actually http://is.gd/71c
MUDANAÇA CLIMATE/MEETING IN PARIS UNTIL DAY 18/4 CLIMATE/MEETING It starts tomorrow (15) in Paris, the third meeting convoked for the United States to debate the subject climatic changes with the biggest economies of the world. The meeting goes until day 18 and will give continuation to the conversations opened in September of 2007, in Washington. The second meeting occurred in January of this year, Honolulu, and congregated 18 countries, between them emergent Brazil, China, India, Indonesia and Africa of the South. The Brazilian government will be present in the meeting with representatives of the Department of state and with the secretary of Climatic Changes and Ambient Quality of the MMA, Thelma Krug. The series of meeting for the debate was announced during 13ª Conference of the Parts on Clima (COP-13), occured in Bali, Indonesia, December of 2007. At that moment, the United States, pressured for developing countries and developed, had accepted the consensus for elaboration of the document that will guide the international negotiations on climatic changes up to 2009 and that it will have to result in the second phase of the Protocol of Quioto. according to secretary Thelma Krug, these conversations are a complement the Bali and not an alternative to the negotiations of the Joined Nations. In accordance with the MMA, these conversations can help to become clearer the measures and the commitments to be adopted for all the countries. The Brazilian government defends the principle of the responsibilities common, however differentiated. Between the subjects that come being debated for the economic powers they are: Possible Contributions of the Biggest Economies to the Process of Negotiation of the Joined Nations, Objective Global of Long Stated period, Cooperative Technologies and Sectorial Boardings, Commitments or National Appropriate Actions of Mitigação and still Relative Questions the Adaptation, Forestation, Financiamento and Mensuração. Source: www.elabore.com.br.
Dax,
why are your webpages automatically translated into english? and from where are those short urls?
Umm... I ran them through Babelfish.
And the URLs come from the screenshot of Rubin's computer, which is posted above in the Praxis.
Now that I look back at the image, the correct URL is actually:
http://is.gd/7jc
which doesn't seem to lead us anywhere useful.
... sorry for all the Portuguese.
I like that we can flag comments now.
I see now that the URL is on edrabbit's domain space. Are they in cahoots, perhaps?
It seems Babelfish's quality has drastically improved in recent times.
Me? How did I get mixed up in this, Dax?
I didn't even realize they were clues. I just figured he'd left an irc channel and a random text file in view when he was making a screenshot, and was waiting for the owner of the door to piece things together.
Nonsense.
Everything will be considered.
Like I always say, don't trust a Babelfish when your health is on the line.
Except it's not his health that's on the line here.
Sorry, guys, I haven't had time to do my sleuthing properly.
More things to investigate:
primer
primer timelines
laughing squid april 23 lip dub videos (curse my computer for refusing to show me them!)
also
The term “context hacking”—like its older mimetic sibling “communication guerrilla”—refers to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Context hacking is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning these into the starting point for interventions by playing with representations and identities, with alienation and over-identification.
Not sure what the lip dub videos on Laughing Squid have to do with it:
Digg doing "Groove is in the Heart" by Deee-Lite.
Revision 3 doing "Need You Tonight" by INXS.
Both Digg and Revision 3 are independent news sources... which could be prime venues for "Context Hacking."
That timeline doesn't make anything any clearer. Do we really need to go watch Primer? That sounds like a lot of work just to figure out what Rubin is up to.
I can't figure out what Phonescoop is. Didn't Rubin get fired from some mobile phone company this winter?
I own a copy of Primer if you need to borrow it.
I'll take you up on that offer. Are you coming down any time this week?
It's a good movie regardless of why you watch it.
Several times, actually. I'll phone you.
Primer really is a very good movie. I need to watch that a second time. Probably a third, fourth, and fifth time as well.
Spoilers...
Just wanted to say I actually saw Rubin getting on a bus at Grant and Market... I would have said "Hi" Rubin, but you were so focused on putting your bike on the front I didn't want to interrupt... it was the 5 or the 21, I believe. So belatedly "Hi!"
Is saying things totally out of context a form of "context hacking"?
What I want to know is who hacked the vote-order? I blame bubblesort.
Going up shortly. It would be highly recommended that folks get on these quick. There is an end goal, if that goal can be understood through the clues is another story though. In the end everyone wins, if they've got it in them too, and also are close by.
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If you read in between the lines you'll find more information. Bring something to cut zipties with. Fucking document all of it. Hope all four are found before they're cleaned up/taken away by someone not part of the game. You've all got a week to find them all.
Remember remember.
Finding them is actually dead easy. This is just to get you fucking desk jockies away from your computers and into the real world.
More fucking clues?
And treasure at the end?
Damn. Damn damn damn.
I need a San Francisco avatar to go hunting. Anyone up for this?
Any others find the rest? Document what you find.
Herbie Lincman = TRUE
Doktor Harmon, Burnie Unitman = HALF ASSED
10 FAKES
My first thought has to do with the Herbie mob, but that seemed wrong, so I thought maybe it was a criticism of a task that 13 of us did, one which was true, two which were half assed, and 10 that were fakes, but BU, the Doktor and myself have no tasks in common.
So I'm back to thinking this clue has to do with the Herbie mob. I took an actual picture of myself posed like Herbie's photo, and BU and Harmon each took an existing player photo and doctored it to look like Mr. Hatman's. The rest (I assume there were ten others) all stole Herbie's actual animated gif and used it as their own.
Although this doesn't take into account GYØ Tom's brilliant animation. Nor Ben's copy.
But even if it's the Herbie photo mob that's being referenced, I still don't have an idea of where to go from there.
And what does Lank mean by "found all four"? Did he already solve it? If so, why hasn't he posted?
Glad they all got found, forgot about Bay to Breakers passing very close to many of those locations.
Lank, you'll get an award, much in the same fashion that Napoleon handed out medals and ribbons.
Anyways, please post what you found and document anything about you finding them, etc.
Jesus Hache Kristus. A Napoleonic complex. That's what it's been all along.
That new clue has lots of references to the Rubin Flash mob. Perhaps the recent Herbie Hatman mob is somehow linked? It seems unlikely, but maybe. Perhaps the Probots and Susybots have something to do with this?
We can only assume that the Robot Revolution is linked to Rubin. Who else could be so nefarious?
The Herbie mob is 100% due to Myrna's personal delight in antagonizing Mr. Hatman. Hats off (heh) to the playful provocateurs who joined me. I like you.
Nonsense. This is all Rubin's doing, whether he or you or we know it or not.
Did you just get a vote from Bubblesort? You fiend.
Holly shit you have 84 messages !?
Deleting them is kind of a pain in the ass, huh?
Am I suppose to be solving something ?!
Just wanted to say that this is really nice work, Rubin. Really nice.
You may only approach the Orange when it is sitting, it will not turn a blind eye if it's standing. If you are unfortunate enough to be facing the Orange when it is standing, you must shield your eyes or turn away and run, for you will turn to stone and never receive the sweetness that is at the end of the trail of clues. Keep the Orange in sight, but don't be in sight of the Orange.
The Orange will begin its journey at 12:30 PM sharp, on the 21st of May, 2008, in downtown SF. It will ponder its tangy life for a few minutes at Stevenson's 3rd Key Ring. After a bit of thinking, it may wander down and have a Chat With a Lovely Hippo, The Hippo talks about nothing but a Waterfall of Lies. The Orange may then Slide Away. Soon then it wants nothing but Reagan's Three Comforting Right Hands.
Follow you must, the Orange will continue. After its journey is over and it has finally found a conductive resting place to sit down for good, you may approach. Speak your name and the reasons for your travels, all roads will then lead to a final conclusion to the clues.
The Orange Awaits.
Someone better be hunting this damn orange right now.
Lank, Avidd, and I tracked the orange and squeezed information from it.
Sheesh. Are you guys still falling for his silly mind tricks?
Here San Fran, here.... goooood boooyyyy... come on now....
Right so tell me oh wonderful orange squeezers, what the hell did you find out? What is going on? Are you about to use your new orange juice information to corner the market?
Oh go on do tell.. I seem to be the only person dying to hear but go on.
Like Dark Orange (who seems to be speaking through other players these days), orange gummies are against orange torture.
Rubin, you are such a silly one. I hope you come back.
I wish this hadn't happened during my finals. I was enthused to do some sleuthing, but 9 hours of sleep over seven days said no...
But do fill us in. I'm with Møuse: Orange juice, orange juice!!
As Loki said, we found the orange.
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Dear Rubin,
Ha ha ha ha! Methuselah!
Love,
Inky