http://www.despoiler.org Taking the "spoiler" out of, um, "spoilers" Thu, 08 May 2008 02:29:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once again, we have been deceived by our own ineptitude. The other day (okay, three days ago) some dude, aptly named "Tim," wrote to us with this little tidbit: Hi there. I was at a trade show in San Francisco about a week ago, and struck up a conversation with a recruiter ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/05/07/i-do-my-holomoves/ So our mail folder tells us we received the following tip 9 days ago but of course we didn't post it because we had no clue what it meant, if anything. We never wish to waste our dear readers' time unless there's a bad joke involved, even though there are ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/05/06/the-violette-letter/ Whatever happened to the real May Day Mystery anyway? Well, here's a new one for you, courtesy of some German-sounding dude with a blog. Really, it's a timeless tale: boy meets killers, boy runs away, boy gets blog. Unfortunately, the latter chapter pretty much precludes any possibility of a believable ending ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/05/01/may-day-mystery-mansion/ What happens when you tart up some lonely lookin' girl and throw her in the middle of a party, take a few pictures of her, post 'em to a blog, and thusly start an ARG? Well, in our case, you get arrested but we're pretty sure that isn't the true ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/04/29/every-social-is-better-with-ice-cream/ Well hey, it seems this internet archaeology thing is catching on after all, and not just in an adult fashion: witness Havet Research. And what better challenge for a bunch of information pirates than to help locate some supposed buried treasure on some possible remote island in Nova Scotia, which ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/04/28/50/ Yup, we're going to Hell. And not because we previously posted something about an adult-themed ARG, because that was totally sweet. No, our final destination was selected due to our recent association with an organization called Humans for the Ethical Treatment of Fairies, Elves, and Trolls (HETFET). False idols, all ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/04/23/please-accept-this-handbasket/ Pretty recently, in a galaxy not at all dissimilar to ours, someone came up with a brilliant idea: "What if people could easily adopt and care for cute little monkeys from space?" Curiously, he or she was not immediately laughed out of town by his or her peers, nor was ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/04/16/the-terrible-secret-of-monkeys/ It's no secret that Alternate Reality Gaming has been referred to as Internet Archaeology. But digging around on the series of tubes doesn't tend to get you as dirty as digging in the traditional archaeological style. Isn't it about time someone combined the two? No? Well, too bad! They did ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/04/03/camp-canyadigit/ And because secret sources are our specialty (say that seven times swiftly!), allow us to totally reveal our next one, just to sort of shake things up. Plus it probably is a fake name anyway. One "Jeffrey Cohen" wanted to "officialize" the fact that "The Rivard Project" is starting soon ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/04/02/taming-the-rivard-wild/ This hot tip is on the fast track as our sources tell us the campaign is slated to end on Sunday. That's right, less than a week from today! It's too bad that Google Custom Time feature wasn't technically real. Wait, what are we talking about? We could totally backdate ... http://www.despoiler.org/2008/04/02/a-fistful-of-face/