Hiatus "Lost" blogging: Hans van Eeghen and the number of days in March
During this season's "Lost" finale, ABC ran a commercial for a company called "Octagon Global Recruiting." The commercial and the website seek volunteers to work on the DHARMA Initiative. Visitors to the site may register for email notifications of their recruitment drive, which will kick off at ComicCon in San Diego next month.
This morning, I received an email from Octagon Global Recruiting; an online copy of the email's text is here.
The message was CC'ed to someone named Hans van Eeghen. A friend and fellow "Lost" addict Googled that name and found this page, which lists a number of descendants of a man named Hugo de Groot; the list includes several van Eeghens.
Of course, my friend also pointed out that "Hans van Eeghen" is an anagram for "a hang seven hen." I don't think he's had enough coffee this morning.
I viewed the HTML source code behind the email message, and I saw this comment buried in the code:
<!-- March has 32 days -->
Both the email and the page reproducing its content also contain this HTML tag in the source:
<meta name="Alert" content="March has 32 days" />
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