Wikipedia Shakeup: Resignations
Two top employees of the Wikimedia Foundation have resigned, citing disagreements with the board. Both publicly tendered their resignations to the community yesterday on a foundation mailing list, but say their resignations are unrelated and the timing coincidental.
Sphere: Escape from the room – walktrough
Sphere: Escape from the room – walktrough
Zoom into desk, Look around the right side and get WADDED-UP PAPER. Open up paper and note what is written and the pattern of the torn edge.
View top of desk and look at each of the three books, they all contain clues.
Note:
Tear in the red book, also color of swatch.
The hibernating frog being awakened by rain.
The cube diagrams.
Zoom out and go look at coffee table by couch. Pick up: KITTY PICTURE stuck to bottom and GRAY ORB. Note Picture frame.
Zoom out to view of pot plant. Get DIRT CLUMP and GREEN ORB.
Look under couch, get CRAYON. Look under couch cushions, get REACHING ROD, and WHITE ORB.
Look beside right of couch, get WHITE BOX and 2nd GREEN ORB.
Look at drawers in corner of room, get 2nd WHITE ORB. Open drawer and get GLASS.
Open red book, use crayon on it, note the flower and color.
Open bottom desk drawer, press squares like diagram according to its orientation if it were to match up to the tear in the red book. Get GOLD KEY.
Use Key on green drawer of desk. Get SCREW DRIVER.
Look over behind the potted plant and use screwdriver on vent. Get PALE BLUE KEY, TWO SCREWS, and 3rd WHITE ORB.
Go to drawers, use pale key, get the paper with the rabbit on it. Look carefully at picture, it is not a rabbit. It is a duck. Note color.
Go to desk, bring up cube, select an orb and use to punch holes in top and bottom as indicated in green book. Place under desk to reveal butterfly, Note color.
Look at blue wall and click in open space of wall to find panel. Enter in the appropriate symbol in the color slots. The code does change from game to game. Get SILVER KEY.
Use silver key on yellow door to open up bathroom.
Use the sink to fill glass with WATER. Look at glass and add clump of dirt. Rinse it out in sink to get FROG.
Look on shelves to back of restrooms; get SCALES PIECE, 2nd GRAY ORB, and LAST GREEN ORB (in plant). Next to them, pick up a SHEET OF TOILET PAPER.
Wet the toilet paper in sink.
Go to potted plant in main room. Use damp paper on smudge, note the number.
Go back to bathroom, use code on box. Get the PINK ORB and the BLUE KEY.
Go to desk, use blue key on blue drawer. Note the picture the device in the drawers is a scale, it is broken. Remember the positions and colors of the orbs in the picture, this is the formula to find out the value of the gold orb. Look at diagram of plant.
Look at hanging plant, use reacher rod on it and click around to revel 2nd PINK ORB.
Go to drawers, open top drawer, put piece in missing space and flip over the device, affix the piece you have to it with the screws. Set it upright.
You can use the scales to determine which orbs are heavier, and therefore are a higher value then each other. After experimenting you should find that:
PINK = 1, WHITE =2, GREEN =3, GRAY = 5
And therefore according to the photo you have, Gold = 9
Go to the Tulip picture on the green wall. Use the frog on it as indicated to do in the book to reveal a secret panel. Use the orbs, knowing their values, to complete the equations.
If you do it right it should read:
PINK = PINK
GRAY = WHITE + GREEN
WHITE + WHITE = GREEN + PINK
GRAY+GREEN+GREEN = WHITE + GOLD
Press the gray button when you are done. The panel will retract. Step back, there is something on the ceiling now. Use the reaching rod to pull on it and bring down a ladder.
Foobar2000 Audio Player gets Interface Revolution
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Elder Scrolls Oblivion: Shivering Isles expansion pack release info
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Intel to Mass Produce Phase-Change Memory In 2007
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Sony’s “PlayStation Home” hitting the PS3 this Fall
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Spy Pics: The New Motorola PAGR – It’s the Wave of the Future.
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