Octagon Global Recruiting

[sidne]

Jul 28, 2008 14:42:37 GMT -5 jacksloststepkid said:

Well, to whet your appetite.

here, from the ODI, is a shaky video of the secret bluetooth video at the booth:

Thanks! I could never get the bluetooth thing to work at the booth and I tried about 5 times over 4 days.

[Danielle]

5:43EST, no Dharmawantsyou...did I miss it or is it opening after today?

If anyone finds out ANY details, please post them here right away

I've been checking out Lostpedia for any updates. Here's a link

www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Dharma_wants_you

apparently a dharma logo can be seen with the little dots on the website. There are pictures on the above link that show you them better.

[manilaraf]

I'm camped out at the LOSTpedia forums on their Lost Experience 2 page with about 50 other people waiting for the site to go live.

[jacksloststepkid]

Sigh... I smell a mislaunch. I'm guessing something didn't go quite as planned and we'll see this either late tonight (if ABC is paying the firm running this a bunch of cash) or tomorrow (if ABC is doing this on a dime).

JLSK

[manilaraf]

Some of the people I'm camping out with on the LOSTpedia forum have actually called Hoodlum's offices in California and Sydney(!!). The people they've talked with or the message playing in Sydney say that they're just waiting for ABC America's go-ahead and then it should be up after that.

[thenumb3rs]

THE SITE IS WORKING! =D

[manilaraf]

Yup, it went live at 8:15PM Pacific Daylight Time.

[thenumb3rs]

Haha, those ABC folk; starting at 8:15 PST.

So I guess we'll be doing a volunteer assessment soon.

Also, for interest, the name of the "Head Recruiter" is Hans Van Eeghen. It could be an anagram. I tried an anagram solver and didn't come up with anything significant.

[jacksloststepkid]

So, for anyone who wants to see all the pics from the recruitment test, I captured them here:

jacksloststepkid.googlepages.com/EligibilityTest.gif

I didn't embed it because it is over a meg in size.

Looks like other than registering, there isn't much to do...

[manilaraf]

Anyone else get a new email from Hans?

Text as follows:

SPOILER: Click to show

THE DHARMA INITIATIVE WANTS YOU!

Recruiting Volunteers NOW.
Join the Dharma Initiative's latest groundbreaking research project.

Visit www.dharmawantsyou.com and complete an 'Eligibility Test'.
Our innovative research has brought together some
of the brightest minds on the planet.
And we'd like you to join us.

APPLY TODAY.
HELP GUIDE THE WORLD TO A BETTER TOMORROW.


If you can't view the images in this email please click here.
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Raf: Here's the URL of the HTML version of the email: www.dharmawantsyou.com/site/emails/0729.php

[manilaraf]

A fellow poster at Lostpedia forum found this in the source code of the HTML version of the email:

SPOILER: Click to show

<meta name="Alert1" content="Banks Claw" />
<meta name="Alert2" content="DOUBLEYOUDOUBLEYOUDOUBLEYOUDOTyoutubeDOTc omFORWARDSLASHwatchQUESTIONMARKvEQUALScW6xkv9vwos" />
<!-- Banks Claw -->
<!-- DOUBLEYOUDOUBLEYOUDOUBLEYOUDOTyoutubeDOTcomFORWARD SLASHwatchQUESTIONMARKvEQUALScW6xkv9vwos -->

Raf again. That URL seem to be :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW6xkv9vwos

It's RuckusGuy! He posted a clean version of the Bluetooth Video from the Dharma Booth.

I also ran "Banks Claw" thru an Anagram analyzer. While it came out with a lot of results. One interesting thing that came out was BLACK SWAN. While I initially was attracted to that result because of the Swan Hatch. Someone pointed out this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

And the first line of that entry defines a Black Swan as follows: "In Nassim Nicholas Taleb's definition, a black swan is a large-impact, hard-to-predict, and rare event beyond the realm of normal expectations." Interesting.

[manilaraf]

The background voice that speaks while your taking the test at the Dharma Wants You site:

SPOILER: Click to show

Via Ridley at The Fuselage. Unconfirmed of course, until you can find someone who speaks Icelandic and can concur with this translation:

"The language spoken during the test is Icelandic. Here's what's being said (the bit in brackets is a bit hard to hear, so could be wrong):

Þeir sem koma að dharmaverkefninu munu þurfa ferðast yfir hafið um langan veg á umtalsverðum hraða. Vinnan mun fela í sér útiveru og líkamlegt athæfi. Þú munt jafnvel einnig geta upplifað [óstöðleika á tímanum á samfylgdinni]. Vonandi ert þú sem og margir sem finnst vinnan mikilvægari en persónulegt öryggi þitt.

Those who come to the Dharma Initiative will have to travel a long way across the sea at a considerable speed. Work will include being outdoors and physical labor. You may also experience some [instability of time along the way]. Hopefully you, like many others, feel that your social duty is more important than your personal safety."

forum.thefuselage.com/showpost.php?p=2001096&postcount=30

[manilaraf]

Just out of curiosity, am I using the spoiler tags in the correct manner? I figured it would be better to spoiler tag everything then get accused of spoiling people in the new ARG.

[jacksloststepkid]

Yeah - I don't know - what do you all think about spoiler tags when it comes to the ARG?

Some options I see:

1. Spoiler tag only the hidden stuff people need to discover, things like e-mails you received, what is up on the current website right now - that wouldn't be spoilered. So, in the case of the translated voice over, that is a more hidden type of thing.

2. Spoiler tag nothing - we're all discovering it together.

I think if we try to spoiler tag every little thing it just won't work very well.

Those who are reading this, weigh in on this today and let's just choose #1 or #2.

My vote is for #2, but I'm fine with #1 if people want it that way.

[jacksloststepkid]

Oh, for those interested. the Youtube video mentioned 4 posts above:

SPOILER: Click to show

Seems mostly to be a mash up of the test along with the original booth video.