Thursday, October 13, 2005

Dork Central

The show Lost is really going all out on creating a geek-friendly, web-centric ad campaign. There are bunches of websites where you can go and find out more mysteries, as if the show needs more mystery.

Anyway, here are a couple I've stolen from AICN this mornin'.

There's the ol' standby official site that's been around for ages, www.oceanicflight815.com, but now if you click on the barcode at the bottom of the page you get a snippet of future script, which has the Korean-speaking Jin saying the line “Michael, no! That isn’t Walt! STOP!” Intriguing, yes...

Go to www.theislandiswaiting.com, for... stuff. Likewise, more ...stuff... if you go to www.thehansofoundation.org, and then you begin to fall down the rabbit-hole if you type it in as (note the extra "s" at the beginning) https://wwww.thehansofoundation.org.

Which leads you to www.bigspaceship1.com, which is a name that has my interest peaked and a page that is... odd, and I wish I had sound because I can't hear if anything's being said on these sites. Apparently, according to the psychos at AICN, there is a morse code transmitted on this site that translates to "sometimes a polar pear is just a polar bear." Mmmkay. There's also a page for www.bigspaceship1.org, which has more... well, nonsense, at this point.

Then there's a website for Hurley's former employment, http://mrclucks.com, which says that "due to the recent natural disaster, our flagship store will be closed until further notice." And the screen occasionally flashes and you see numbers and the words "dharma" and "polar bear." There's a link button at the bottom, that has links to a Mt. St. Helens webcam, as well as www.dharmaindustries.com... and god, it just keeps going and going...

Honestly, all this shit is more interesting than the show so far this season... I know we've learned what's in the hatch, but... there are so many questions and I am getting a little fatigued. Not to mention that I'm having a hard time knowing Veronica Mars is on the other channel and that show is just non-stop awesomeness all the time. Sigh....

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