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Button 1 -- Billboard Artwork -- gasoline
 
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Button 2 -- Billboard Artwork -- UUu891
 
  
 
This leads to [http://www.themailstrom.com/gasoline_UUu891.htm this page], which is a thread between a mother and representatives at the Bureau of Morality regarding access to her child.
 
This leads to [http://www.themailstrom.com/gasoline_UUu891.htm this page], which is a thread between a mother and representatives at the Bureau of Morality regarding access to her child.

Revision as of 11:49, 16 March 2007

Lithograph

http://www.themailstrom.com

Contents

  • 1 Discovery
  • 2 Website Content
  • 3 Hidden Numbers
  • 4 Hidden Text

Discovery

The Mailstrom was found on a lithograph given at the listening party to those who pre ordered Year Zero (open the image in the highest resolution possible and look at the top left corner).

Website Content

Following a link in the main page leads to this page which provides the premise that the Mailstrom is a brute force means of evesdropping on communication that goes through Consolidated, the sole system of internet service available in the near future of Year Zero.

On this page we can find the following example login info:

wreckage: gallows
shard: Y3RG7J

This leads to this page discussing informants and a possible link to Trinity Episcopalian, it is unknown if there is another website hidden in the meaning of this email communication at this time.

At the Minneapolis Listening Party, some buttons were given out. Four buttons have been reported to date, containing another wreackage/shards retrieved from The Mailstrom. The following combination was found on two of them:

wreckage: gasoline
shard: UUu891

This leads to this page, which is a thread between a mother and representatives at the Bureau of Morality regarding access to her child.

Here is the complete list of buttons. New finds are highlighted.

Button Detail Wreckage Shard
Robot Head (wreckage) / Molotov Cocktail held by robot (shard) gasoline UUu891
AIR Flag (more detail on appearance, please!) sickle not seen
SPEAKTRUTH not seen I682fg or L682fg or 1682fg
YOU HAVE A VOICE spore not seen
YOU WILL BE HEARD bitter not seen
Police Baton not seen blE34c or b1E34c or biE34c
something to do with police on billboard not seen not seen
AIR Flag (from mural, more detail on appearance, please!) tumbrel AD44Us
AIR Flag (white on black) not seen vC99iT
AIR Flag (red on white) infarction not seen

References found here and here.

Hidden Numbers

24.1.1 on the main page.

Hidden Text

A quote from the beginning of 1984 by George Orwell composes the broken text.

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him."
1984.jpg

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