MICROSOFT "Vista" promoted with SPACE RIDE prize

Oooh! What is the contest about? I'm not planing on winning though. But I just might show them exactly how much you can loose a contest!

(Yeah, that joke was pretty lame)

"'The puzzle game challenged players worldwide to decipher clues from "spectacular events at various locations" beginning on Monday at the Bellagio Casino here, according to Microsoft.

A taunting video interspersed with numbers, symbols, equations and the hint "it's all about time" was projected onto dancing fountains in front of the casino after dark.
Players have established online forums and wikis -- web pages that visitors can modify -- devoted to the game, the companies said. Microsoft created the website www.vanishingpointgame.com to provide rules, videos of clues, a "count down" and other information. "'

How delightfully appropriate of Microsoft. I don't want to come off sounding like a luddite, but I can't help but find the synchronicity in an operating system named Vista and the desire of so many to escape to outer space, where one looks down upon the Earth as one regards an object. Something remote and vaguely defineable--like cross-strich patterns of a landscape--but something the traveller rises above and forgets, for a moment, his or her place within the totality of this sordid little planet.

Like I usually do, I read too much into things.