Rampancy

KP and HBO's own Louis Wu took time out yesterday to drive out to one of the CT locations listed on the ilovebees.com page, to wait and see if a nearby phone would indeed ring. As it turns out, they had no luck-- no call came in. It is not clear at this point whether all locations actually received a call, but apparently only two per group were needed to trigger one of the audio files now on the ILB site,

The countdown has ended at ilovebees.com and been replaced by the phrase "transmitting" with a link to the groups of GPS coordinates on the links page.

As the PDT time for each "axon" goes by, the links page lists two from each group of seven as "hot", and then the title for that group links to an audio file. So far, jersey is the first audio file revealed. It appears to be a dialogue between characters in the story so far.

UPDATE: Indications are so far that the theory that the locations would receive a call at a pay phone seem to be correct. sfsdfd in the Unfiction forum says that a someone calls a pay phone at the location and plays a recording. It then asks you to tell her the name of the caller. If you don't guess in 20 seconds, it hangs up.

UPDATE: There is no Halo 2 demo. Bungie already said there wasn't going to be, and that they won't even think about it until after the retail version of the game is out on November 9. So stop asking!

Verdafolio at demented puppy dot com has posted the rules of engagement for the upcoming When Pigs Fly warthog launching contest. Winners will get signed artwork from community regulars like Shishka, Boxer, Stuntmutt, Dogsounds, Warbow and Blackstar.

bobindashadows has posted over at Halo Mac Development that after a couple of weeks of work, he has successfully converted a map created for Halo CE, in this case the desert island map by ZexGX to work with Halo for the Mac.

Five screenshots accompany the story, showing ZexGX's map clearly running in Aqua windows.

Unfortunately, bobindashadows says that quite a bit of hand-editing work is required to do this conversion, so it looks like there will not be anything like a drag-and-drop converter anytime soon. In the absence of such an app, he'll only be converting the particular maps he thinks of as being worth it.

Thanks for the heads-up on this story to Louis Wu at HBO.