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January 26, 2007
Animator vs. animated pt 2
Posted by Bryant at 08:45 AM | Comments (0)
January 22, 2007
Heroes has a website/sideplot
So it was another good episode of Heroes today. The show seems to get better every episode.
In the middle of this episode, there was a business card exchange from Claire's dad to the professor's son. This business card had a website address and a phone number.
If you go to http://www.primatechpaper.com/, you will be greeted by an intentionally sparse and poorly designed site. The entire site is more or less uninteresting except for a careers link. If you click on that, it requires a code to enter the site.
At first, I jumped to view the source. Sure enough, the validation is all done in javascript and the link can be obtained, but they must be doing some kind of referral checking. The passcode is an MD5_hex hash. Rather than trying to crack the hash, I decided to dig some more.
If you dial the 1-800 number you will be greeted by a fake phone tree. You can try different options, which all say they're not there right now. If you try the careers one, they'll give you an access code for the jobs site.
For those of you who'd rather not call or are impatient, the code is mt36 . This code lets you fill out a form where you basically put in some contact information. Probably means that the "game" can contact you. At the bottom of the form are some personality questions that seem like they try and detect evil doers and heroes. Not sure if this will have an effect on the game, but we shall see.
I've already started getting some text messages from them. Fortunately I'm on an unlimited plan.
I've done a domain lookup on the domain and obviously it's owned by GE, the parent company of NBC:
General Electric Company
Internet Registrations
3135 Easton Turnpike
Fairfield, CT 06828-0001
US
I'll try to keep posting on what happens in this "game"
Posted by Bryant at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)
January 17, 2007
Get a Wii this Wiikend
The Nintendo Wii is possible the best gaming console EVER.
Unfortunately, it makes it really hard to get a hold of. Analysts are speculating it will be tough until March to walk in a store and just get a Wii.
According to my sources, (internets, interweb, the google) Retailers have been saving their inventory for sunday morning.
Each store should have a minimum of 15 with some up to 50.
Retailers:
Best Buy
Target
I wouldn't recommend getting there right before opening, I would say 5AM at the latest
Posted by Bryant at 09:28 PM | Comments (1)