Last night I managed to have nearly 100 people sign Lydia’s little black notebook at the Akademy beer-event. It was fun and a perfect example of how beer can give you a reason to do practically anything.
Coming up: Amarok talk. Must write notes.
The Google-AU blog reports that Google is going to be holding another one of it’s brain busting adventures soon. The post is ended with the following text/clue:
Arrrrrrrr you ready? Onward to the first puzzle, matey! And good luck!
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Soon :). 1210550400
Warning: links below contain spoilers.
Shouldn’t take long to figure out. The 10 digits of the final number is a dead giveaway that it’s a unix timestamp, and maps to a particular time. That’s soon.
The seemingly random string is a base64 encoding of a particular website.
I’d just like to wish everyone a hearty and happy star wars day.
May the fourth be with you!
Icon credit: everaldo
Exciting news! I’ve spotted a Google streetview car in Sydney! Hopefully this means that Google Maps Sydney will soon get a street view so that we can play fun privacy invasion games.
It’s a little hard to tell thanks to the crappy camera on my mobile phone, but with some squinting you can see the camera mounted on a 1.5-ish metre support bracket on the hood of the car. You can also see the Google decal on the side, providing awesome aerodynamic characteristics to the car.
Some of you may already be familiar with the find-a-thing puzzles which I have posted on music and movie subjects. Here comes another in the sequence: a historical famous people search quiz.
Best of luck for this one.
