The Dharma Initiative Wants You!

PHOTO: Trip by hawaii, on Flickr CC BY-NC-ND

Lost’s third alternative reality game debuts this weekend at the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con and, as usual, DarkUFO and Lostpedia are the places to be for the latest information.

Here’s a snippet of the on-site report that Lostpedia has up as of this writing:

At the Octagon Global Recruiting booth, fans are given a waiver form and an appointment time by DHARMA staff (all with Australian accents). At their appropriate time, they can enter the booth, which has cameras on the ceiling (these appear to feed outside the booth so observers can see what is going on). With a set of headphones and television equipment, participants are shown images or given a series of questions, and have to say what first pops into their heads. Some of the images in particular are reportedly very bizarre. Questions are then asked such as “You just took away a child’s favorite toy. Why?”

This sounds very bizarre, indeed. I haven’t actively participated in either of Lost’s previous ARGs (Find 815 and The Lost Experience). They’ve always been just way too much for me to keep up with. Have you participated? Will you answer the call of Octagon Global Recruiting this summer? Let us know in the comments. 

Comment on this article here.

Octagon Global Recruiting

Have you signed up with Octagon Global Recruiting yet? They are operating “on behalf of the Dharma Initiative” and “currently seeking volunteers to contribute to an important new research project.”

The Dharma Initiative is a multidisciplinary research collective dedicated to improving the human condition through innovative scientific research.

Our directors are recognized leaders in their fields, with distinguished research histories in a wide range of social and scientific disciplines.

You can sign up to help them with their apparently not-so-silly experiments at OctagonGlobalRecruiting.com. They contacted me by e-mail today, and it sounds like they’re really interested.

Comment on this article here.