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Off Beat: Coders Crack Secret of 'San Jose Semaphore' on Adobe Buildin g
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:18:18 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Weird little local story. :-) [snip] San Jose city officials and a group of code crackers revealed the message Tuesday behind a set of four revolving circles atop the Adobe Almaden Tower in the city's downtown. Two Silicon Valley technologists, Bob Mayo and Mark Snesrud, unraveled the mystery behind the artwork's coded message. The four, 10-foot-wide illuminated amber circles were revealing text from the 1960's book, "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon. "Given the artwork's location in the heart of Silicon Valley and concept, a semaphore, there really was only one logical choice for the text: Thomas Pynchon's 'The Crying of Lot 49,'" said artist, Ben Rubin, the creator of San Jose Semaphore. [snip] More: http://www.nbc11.com/news/13889730/detail.html Good photos of The 'San Jose Semaphore' are all over Google images. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGwlRTq1pz9mNUZTMRAqW8AKDrb9IYAGPJ4R2O7L+Apka/Y74wTACeIERG 1CncqgcJ3tm+dMoUQrn97kw= =yBdM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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