Bill’s Lost Site

A real interesting article written over on the Lost Blog that discusses whether pushing the button is simply an experiment or if the button actually does something.

One of the better articles on this really important topic. The article can be accessed HERE. Here is a brief excerpt to give you a flavor for the excellent writing:

How to decide then? In decision theory, especially when faced with a decision to be made under uncertainty, the rational procedure is to identify all possible outcomes, determine their values (positive or negative) and the probabilities that will result from each course of action, and multiply the two to give an expected value. The action to be chosen should be the one that gives rise to the highest total expected value.

This was invoked by the famous French mathematician and philospher Blaise Pascal, in what has come to be known as Pascal’s wager. Basically, Pascal’s uncertainty was the existence of God. Belief or non-belief in God is the decision to be made. Pascal posited that the reward for belief in God if God actually does exist is infinite. Therefore, however small the probability of God’s existence, the expected value of belief exceeds that of non-belief, so it is better to believe in God.

And so on … give the article a shot. I think you will really enjoy it! Thanks Job for the great ideas.

For all those who are technically inclined we have a unique contribution to the blog from faithful reader Scott J.

To start - go to the Oceanic-Air website linked on the blog. There you can find a seating chart of the flight. The page contains a bunch of Flash files that are activated by clicking on certain seats. Scott was able to decompile the Flash files and extract the Images and Audio. Clicking on the file name you will see the image the Scott captured.

Easter Eggs I’ve found so far:

This text can also be found as a comment on the Track Flight page.

Thanks again Scott for your work on this. Please keep us posted with any future findings!

Just found this site - looks like a list of 35 of the top Lost resource sites. Your humble author has somehow managed to make the top 35 (number 21 to be exact - but who’s counting)! How about that?

But I digress … the site is actually really nice since you can quickly get to other Lost sites (official and non-official). Lost is all about information. You shouldn’t lack for information after visiting these other sites. However, please remember that this one is your favorite Keep checking back for updates and other great insight.

There is a great new site that I found hosted by Sledgeweb. I’m going to be adding the site as a link for the blog.

In the meantime here are some of the site highlights:

A very detailed timeline of events (pre and post crash) - you will be amazed at what has been compiled.

Comprehensive list of how everyone is connected prior to the crash.

Maps detailing events and where everyone is from.

There is just a ton of stuff on the site. Please take some time and check it out. Thanks Sledgeweb for all the hard work in putting this together.

One other site that I just came across that I enjoy is called “The Island of Lost”. There is a section on the site called “The Hatch” that has odds and ends type information that is very good.

I thought that I would bring to you some of the interesting topics that are being discussed over at the Fuselage. Clicking the hyperlink will take you to the posting.

1. Do the Losties ever talk to one another about what they see? For example, there was no mention in this episode about discovering another hatch or the fact that there were costumes, etc. This post explores those topics.

2. Do you think Henry Gale is lying about being a balloonist?

3. Why did Henry ask about the computer? Any significance there?

4. How much time has passed since Shannon was killed? A lot less than you might think.

5. Was the pregnancy test that Sun used one that she brought on board? I don’t think so but here is the discussion.

6. If you don’t like my theory as to how Sun became pregnant you could check out this thread for alternative views.

7. Where did Charlie find the gun? Did he get it from Sawyer or from someone/somewhere else?

8. Will the Lostie’s get ambushed while looking for Henry’s balloon?

I’ll add others if anything else interesting pops up.