Is this a Radiohead Mind Game?
October 22, 2007 7:38 AM   Subscribe

Radiohead's In Rainbows. Super Amazing Happy Fun Time: 0101010101001010101010 + binary theory from puddlegum.

I read this article on puddlegum from digg this morning: http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-1010101010 and put together a sweet ass playlist for my way to work. I was intrigued by the idea of a binary sequence made up of the OK Computer / In Rainbows sequence and so googled 0101010101001010101010 (which is the sequence made from that alternation 0 for OK and 1 for IR). This website was the first hit: http://www.industriassafor.net/logo.swf. It's a splash logo with not much else going on. I remember the whole Ski Taos thread (very enjoyable to read and see people pick apart) and this looked similar. Any ideas? (I also posted this discovery on puddlegum, so others may see this too. I'm not too into alternate realty games, but this just looked too cool to share).
posted by marxfriedrice to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is pretty weird and doesn't seem to be a question. Not really what askme is for.

 
I looked really hard for a question mark in your "question" and found only "Any ideas?". My idea is that you posted this in the wrong place, and forgot to include a link, and are about to have your "question" deleted.
posted by roofus at 7:41 AM on October 22, 2007


Looks like a coincidence to me. This is stretching quite a bit and i doubt alternate game developers would pull off such an odd reference to start their game. Sometimes a cigar is just cigar, you know.
posted by damn dirty ape at 7:45 AM on October 22, 2007


Incidentally, I am not suggesting that this would be a good FPP. It's a misguided AskMe, but would be even more off track in the blue.
posted by roofus at 7:45 AM on October 22, 2007


I think it's just a coincidence - they threw a binary string into the splashy stuff because it looked "cool and computery," and it's mostly just alternating 1's and 0's. No more significant than finding some place that has asdfghjkl in it somewhere.
posted by Wolfdog at 7:47 AM on October 22, 2007


Best answer: Oh, and also Industrias Safor is a real company, not part of a mind game.
posted by roofus at 7:49 AM on October 22, 2007


Response by poster: Thanks roofus. Oh well! Looks like it's back to work!
posted by marxfriedrice at 7:50 AM on October 22, 2007


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