Adobe HQ puzzle solved

[D.]

Very interesting...but my second thought was: did they
get Pynchon's approval to use Lot 49 for this? Or do
they still have to obtain it now that the secret is
out? Or does it even matter?


D.


--- Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Two technology workers have solved the puzzle
> presented by rotating
> lights high atop the Adobe Systems Inc. headquarters
> in San Jose.
> (...)
>  What they discovered is that the rotating lights on
> the adobe
> building were spelling out an entire novel, "The
> Crying of Lot 49" by
> Thomas Pynchon.
> 
> The 10-foot-in-diameter, amber-colored disks rotated
> every eight
> seconds, using a visual coding system. An online
> audio broadcast
> provided a soundtrack of spoken and sung letters,
> numbers and musical
> tones to help with the decoding.
>
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/08/13/daily35.html
> 



       
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