TmpRkRL85 and the Mystery of Webdriver Torso

Remembering the madness over a series of 11-second videos

Photo Credit: YouTube snapshot of tmpRkRL85

Did you know that if your IQ exceeds a certain (imaginary-number) level or if the Throbbing Gristle density of your blog is in relatively good balance, text can create music in your surroundings? Well, not technically but IRL! You can try this with this perplexing probe:

I spent days pondering over the Webdriver Torso puzzle. Those nearly 80,000 11-sec YouTube uploads of strange blue and red rectangles with the frequencies vexing your fingernails! For days they created an eerily exciting sci-fi neon labyrinth. So I Boing-Boinged “The Numbers Station” to find there are actually two uploads that looked nothing like others. One with the Eiffel and the other, a French-dubbed episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Now guess who got the goosebumps to go further and push the envelope of selfish storyline making for the sake of amusement? Of course the whore sincerely.

I tweeted (twat?) about my love for this beautiful absence of evidence only to receive yet another mysterious message from a guy called Thomas Pinecone. A man ostensibly drowned in Paranoiac-Critical Theory replied with:

Matei/Lab Analyse Geometrie et Applications/ Paris,France
tel: 33 (0)1 49403571/ he`s highly intelligent indeed!