Monday, July 31, 2006

Queen of the Geeks

Alright, now I'm not sure if I should officially announce this, but I can't resist. I'm officially a geek. And not just your average comic-book buying geek (which I do enjoy) but an all out internet obsessed geek.

I've been following this ARG called the Lost Experience that's basically an ongoing puzzle to keep fans of the ABC show Lost hooked all summer. It's involved "fake" websites, "fake" commercials, and loads of new characters that have revealed a ton of clues about the backstory to the show and the island. At the moment followers of the Lost Experience are tracking down fragments of a video online that will eventually be pieced together to reveal something that will blow your socks off. The fragments are hidden in codes and glyphs that are scattered in puzzles, fansites and magazines in the real world.

The reason I say I'm a geek is that today fragment #18 (I think) was officially released and by pure luck I was one of the first who found it. It was linked through the Channel 4 website (UK version of ABC that airs Lost) so I emailed the LostExperienceClues and got props for being among the first who found it. My name is even on the website under Clue #86. I rule. Or not as the case may be since I am such a self-proclaimed geek. I don't care, I danced all day. To check it out click right here...but be warned it's definitely addictive.

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