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Hidden message in digg.com Solved!

hyperevo.com — There appears to be some funny physicists, or just geeks like me, working at Digg.com. They have put a hidden message into the page source of their website that can be deciphered with a little knowledge of physics. This article explains how to solve the message.

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 1, 2008

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  • NathanielJ, on 11/01/2008, -4/+7509 + 5 + 9 + 5 + 9 + 5 = 42
  • inditech, on 10/31/2008, -5/+634Dugg for pure geek, plain and simple. Not even going to begin to try and verify that one!
  • woofer1125, on 10/31/2008, -11/+539i knew that

    i stayed at a holiday inn last night.
  • Totz83, on 11/01/2008, -1/+387It means everything
  • binchaud, on 10/31/2008, -5/+263I'll take your word for it dude
  • Archaic1, on 11/01/2008, -6/+256brb, my brain just exploded
  • picpak, on 11/01/2008, -5/+255http://digg.com/programming/Digg_is_done_serving_y ...
  • Apsu55, on 11/01/2008, -3/+252It's the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

    see: Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
  • uberleat, on 10/31/2008, -3/+228But what does the 959595 at the top of the source mean?
  • msflower97, on 10/31/2008, -6/+207For some reason I feel like playing all my Beatles albums backwards now.
  • hugeposuer, on 11/01/2008, -5/+118Oh. So the hidden message in digg.com is itself.

    How exciting.
  • Archaic1, on 11/01/2008, -18/+116That's a counter showing the average number of 4chan memes posted in the comments section each week. Almost at the 1 million mark!
  • YesImAChick, on 10/31/2008, -4/+91I have a guess as to who was behind this... I think the puzzle solver deserves a free Digg tee too!
  • iamnobody8614, on 11/01/2008, -2/+88Now if we just had the question.
  • GarmaZed, on 11/01/2008, -10/+90It's "Holiday Inn Express", and I am sad for knowing that.
  • SSUK, on 11/01/2008, -1/+70http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_Life,_the_U ...
  • terracottapai, on 11/01/2008, -2/+65*nerdtastically impressive comment here*
  • twotimesthru, on 11/01/2008, -6/+594 8 15 16 23 42
  • supermanly, on 11/01/2008, -2/+54*agrees with terracottapai's brilliant reply*
  • terracottapai, on 11/01/2008, -1/+51*dickishly ignores the fact he has been complimented and seizes upon some slight inaccuracy in supermanly's response, thus completing the life cycle of an Internet comment*
  • PabloPowell, on 11/01/2008, -2/+51Good job. I just did a google search. I didn't have to be a physicist at all.

    http://tinyurl.com/6znra9

    Made popular 2 years and 104 days ago.
  • BigManOnCampus, on 10/31/2008, -10/+59(T - V) (6.24150948 × 10^18 e/sec) (E/c^2) (1.602176487 × 10^–19 C)

    ** note: I dugg this.
  • inactive, on 11/01/2008, -4/+52Quantum electrodynamics AND html? I just wet myself.
  • duggdowncatisad, on 11/01/2008, -7/+53That's over 9000!
  • andyboy2k2, on 11/01/2008, -1/+47http://www.google.com/search?q=Answer+to+Life%2C+t ...
  • clawzkatt, on 11/01/2008, -5/+49Yeah, yeah. I understand.
    *shoves potato chips in mouth*
    mmm.
  • graemee, on 11/01/2008, -1/+41@iamnobody8614

    That is still being computed.
  • highPhone, on 11/01/2008, -0/+38its a hex code for gray
  • phlux, on 11/01/2008, -1/+38"Drink more ovaltine"
  • macuser9214, on 11/01/2008, -3/+39.... .- ...- . -.-- --- ..- . ...- . .-. ... . . -. .- -. .- -.- . -.. .-- --- -- .- -. .. -. .-. . .- .-.. .-.. .. ..-. . ..--..

    ^-- it pays to know morse code ;)
  • tehsuck1, on 11/01/2008, -3/+36I refuse to believe that that was clever
  • sfrench, on 11/01/2008, -2/+35Alright, he outed himself in another post a long time ago that somebody below linked. So I'll spill the beans.

    http://digg.com/programming/Digg_is_done_serving_y ...
  • rossnyc, on 11/01/2008, -18/+50Interesting. This message can also be translated from Morse Code: "Have you ever seen a naked woman in real life?"
  • chewbacca77, on 10/31/2008, -0/+31People who want to know how it works.
  • Zeigy, on 11/01/2008, -2/+33No, he's right, it's definitely not that person.
  • ZeeZee2k, on 11/01/2008, -0/+31Who's geekier, the digg employee who encoded this, or the guy who solved it?
  • ileftfark, on 11/01/2008, -3/+33*links to an xkcd comic that I didn't particularly understand either, but hopes that it will be deemed relevant, thus validating my online persona*
  • BigManOnCampus, on 10/31/2008, -1/+30No, T - V.

    I know what you're thinking of, and that would work too, but angular momentum is not always depicted by L, whereas this one is.
  • Acglaphotis, on 11/01/2008, -6/+359 + 5 + 9 + 5 + 9 + 5 = 42

    Hehe :D.
  • NathanielJ, on 11/01/2008, -0/+28...says the guy who has 19 pieces of recent activity on digg in the last hour.
  • NathanielJ, on 11/01/2008, -1/+28There *is* a delete button, you know?
  • CavemanUK, on 11/01/2008, -0/+26thats numberwang
  • mikebb79, on 11/01/2008, -3/+28aww, the guy was so excited too.
  • GumdoMike, on 11/01/2008, -4/+28whoosh
  • Tomholius, on 10/31/2008, -2/+25I see what you did there. Isn't it T x V ?
  • trogdor282, on 11/01/2008, -2/+25In the year 9595, Digg servers run Windows 95.
  • YesImAChick, on 10/31/2008, -3/+26How do you know who my guess is?!? I call shenanigans :-P
  • lintmonkey, on 11/01/2008, -9/+319*5*9*5*9*5 = 91125
    9+1+1+2+5 = 18
    The 18th letter of the alphabet is 'R', which is the first letter of Kevin Rose's last name.

    I should be a nucular physicist or something.
  • rationalist, on 11/01/2008, -0/+20you got way too much time on your hand [sic]. who the ***** sits around reading diggs like this only to dis them?

    (also, not everyone is a one-armed paper hanger.)
  • thedaytripper, on 11/01/2008, -3/+23........
    *ASPLODE*
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