Comments on: Cyberstream Poem

Cyberstream Poem

Niahmas — Mon, 03 May 2004 02:32:48 -0800

Poem in the cyberstream Still trying to figure this one out.

By: jaded

jaded — Mon, 03 May 2004 04:02:06 -0800

It looks to me like it's the hexidecimal/binary view of a word document named "testaz.doc". I would imagine that if you copied and pasted it into a hex editor and saved that as a file, you'd get a word doc with some bad poetry in it.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 03 May 2004 04:18:31 -0800

It's definitely a zip file, but I'm having trouble unzipping it....

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 03 May 2004 04:32:35 -0800

OK - I've unzipped it, but I either unzipped it wrong, or the doc file is just rubbish. The Doc file can be found here. [INTESTAZ.doc] and the zip file is here. [hexpoem.zip] I've not tested the DOC file for viruses or anything like that, so be careful.

By: Niahmas

Niahmas — Mon, 03 May 2004 07:02:04 -0800

Sweet. How did you do it?

By: josephtate

josephtate — Mon, 03 May 2004 07:28:25 -0800

Poem by Nari: "The works of Poem by Nari are results of a creative collaboration; artists, writers, computer programmers, and Netizens of the world. Digital code and data, program logic, information from cyberspace, all things digital, are source materials for creative exploration."

By: josephtate

josephtate — Mon, 03 May 2004 07:32:45 -0800

Additive Color Theory. This "poem" is interactive and obvious. Color by numbers.

By: ikalliom

ikalliom — Mon, 03 May 2004 11:21:29 -0800

Fix the line at 200h and it works. I wish I'd solved it from the beginning by myself. But neat anyway.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 03 May 2004 13:58:22 -0800

Ah yes. That'll do it. So. For the curious, the poem is a blank word document zipped, and then converted to Hex. Author: Rinaldo Rasa Revision: 2 Created 10/02/1999 Application: Microsoft Word 8.0 Slightly different to Coleridge, but decoding it was fun anyway. I guess it says something about the information needed in the modern age to say nothing. Or some such nonsense.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 03 May 2004 14:03:15 -0800

Sweet. How did you do it? In case that question was pointed to me... Copied the text to my favorite text editor, and stripped out (nearly) all the spurious characters. Used Borland Delphi to convert the Hex to Characters and save in a new file. I guessed it was a zipped file from the fact it seemed to contain (a) garbage, (b) the characters "PK" at the front of the file and (c) a filename at the end of the file. Opened the zip file and then opened the Word Doc contained therein.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Mon, 03 May 2004 14:05:21 -0800

cant we just cheat here and y'all post the poem for us lazy folks? ;)

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Mon, 03 May 2004 14:16:02 -0800

It's blank. There is no ~~spoon~~ poem.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Mon, 03 May 2004 14:50:08 -0800

ah. clever.