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    Lost Experience: Octagon Global Recruiting Wants You!
    Thursday, 19 June 2008
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    I woke up and went about my normal everyday routine: showered, shaved, brushed my teeth, dressed, ate, fed the ravenous horde of cybernetic monkey minions I've been designing in my basement, calibrated and re-aligned the sonic amplifier I currently have aimed at the concrete foundation of my neighbors house in an effort to drive him slowly insane with the subtle vibration and hum, recorded the changes in blood sugar level of my genetic-testing rats, filled the saline bags of the human slaves I have tethered to the giant underground donkey wheel that powers my home, put on my tinfoil hat (with matching tie because I'm fashion forward), and left for work.

    But then something unusual happened.

    I arrived at work to find an email from Octagon Global Recruitment, a division of the Dharma Initiative, informing me of an opportunity to join their ranks. That's right, it's "Lost Experience" time again...


    This arrived in my inbox this morning (full text below):

    Octagon Global Recruiting Announcement Email
    The Octagon Global Recruiting announcement email


    The full text of the email is as follows:


    Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, would like to thank you for registering your expression of interest in our latest volunteer recruitment drive.

    We will be launching in San Diego on July 24th at Comic-Con International offering select registrants the opportunity to take an exciting aptitude test that will give applicants the chance to demonstrate their unique talents.

    The Dharma Initiative hopes you will be able to join us to find out more about their ground-breaking new research project. We will contact you closer to the date with more information.

    For those not able to join us in San Diego, Dharma's full recruitment program will be made available online to registered recruits after July 27th.

    In the meantime, the Dharma Initiative urges you to spread the word. Invite your colleagues to join the team at www.octagonglobalrecruiting.com and take part in this once in a lifetime opportunity.

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    THIS IS AN OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION OF THE DHARMA INITIATIVE:
    This message and its attachments are confidential and may contain information which is protected by copyright. It is intended solely for the named addressee. If you are not the authorised recipient (or responsible for delivery of the message to the authorised recipient), you must not use, disclose, print, copy or deliver this message or its attachments to anyone. If you receive this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and permanently delete this message and its attachments from your system. Any content of this message and its attachments that does not relate to the official business of the Dharma Initiative or its subsidiaries must be taken not to have been sent or endorsed by any of them. No representation is made that this email or its attachments are without defect or that the contents express views other than those of the sender.



    Ominous, no?

     "Demonstrate their unique talents"?

    "Ground-breaking new research project"?

    Compared to hanging out in a submarine with a bunch of thugs looking for the wreckage of a missing plane, so far this year's Lost ARG looks to be a lot more geek-friendly. Debuting at Comic-Con (which I sadly can't attend because someone obviously misplaced my free pass *cough* hint hint *cough*), it looks like attendees will get a head start, with the rest of us financially-deprived fans catching up in later weeks.

    As for this email? Well, it wouldn't be Lost without a few hidden secrets: the email, in addition to being sent to you, is also CC'ed to a certain "Hans Van Eeghen" (possibly an anagram). An email sent to his address returns the following automatic reply: " Thank you for your email. I am currently on assignment in the field. I will contact you as soon as I am back in the office." He will probably be a source of information in the weeks to come. Googling his name brings up a genealogy titled "Descendants of Hugo de Groot" (with a few Jacob's on it), and enough numbers, locations and dates to keep the math wizzes and conspiracy nuts going crazy for weeks.

    Also, if you view the html for the email, there is an alert that says "March has 32 days". This is a referrence to the  story by the same name which is part of Mysterious Tales #40 - the comic that Richard Alpert showed a young John Locke. You can read that story (as well as the other stories in the comic) at MysteryTales40.com (which is an official site hosted by "Oceanic Webhosting Services" a.k.a. Oceanic-air.com a.k.a. ABC.com). The whole comic contains tons of Lost-familiar topics like time travel and strange paranormal occurrences.

    Normally, I'm not really an ARG kinda guy, but I think I may just keep an eye on this one and see where it leads.


    Excited about the new Lost ARG? Is Octagon Global part of the good Dharma, or the bad Dharma? What do you think the ultimate goal will be? Post a comment and let us know!
    Comments (1)
    james wrote...
    Peter, what are your thoughts on the newly announced LOST Book Club? Will it give Oprah a run for her money? What are you thinking will fill the long, long, long, excessively too long void until LOST returns?
    || July 02, 2008

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