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So Trent hasn't gone to the doctor's office for a physical in 10 years. So he finally goes in and his doctor tells him he has penile cancer and its in too advanced of a stage and he needs to get it amputated. About a year later he starts getting busy with a groupie. When she tries to undo his pants Trent stops her and says... um.. THAT PART OF ME ISN'T HERE ANYMORE...
==00000.gif theory==
I have a theory that I've been exploring for the past day or so. The theory is that this image contains data: [http://yearzero.nin.com/00000.gif http://yearzero.nin.com/00000.gif] (how you embed an image is beyond me. -bh)
Close inspection of this image will reveal that there are exactly 18 colors in it, most of which are in a pattern to the left. This pattern is very reminiscent of ASCII text, which has been converted to binary data, looks when drawn as a bitmap. Unfortunately, there are more color codes than just 2(1 & 0), and the rectangular boundaries are not all multiples of 8. It is believed, however, that there is data there. One would not post such a unique background image as a .gif unless it is necessary that the color values stayed clean.
Another interesting detail when looking at the color codes is that some of them correspond to the numbers of the images hidden on the yearzero minisite. Below is a list of the color codes used in the 00000.gif image, followed by a list of the image numbers.
Color Codes in decimal: <br>
0,0,0<br>
4,2,1<br>
0,5,0<br>
4,4,2<br>
6,2,6<br>
7,7,1<br>
9,6,7<br>
0,14,1<br>
9,13,0<br>
22,12,1<br>
2,25,0<br>
22,24,0<br>
9,35,6<br>
29,33,60<br>
39,39,37<br>
51,52,50<br>
224,224,223<br>
255,255,255<br>
Image Numbers:
[http://yearzero.nin.com/img/03.html 03], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/07.html 07], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/10.html 10], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/12.html 12], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/14.html 14], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/19.html 19], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/22.html 22], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/25.html 25], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/28.html 28], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/31.html 31], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/39.html 39], [http://yearzero.nin.com/img/86.html (86 = albumcover.jpg)]
The image numbers that are used in the color codes are: 07, 12, 14, 22, 25, 39
The image numbers that are not used in the color codes are: 03, 10, 19, 28, 31 (and 86)
The color code elements that are not in the list of images are:
0,1,2,4,5,6,9,13,24,29,33,35,37,50,51,52,60,223,224,255
While this may be a somewhat weak correlation, the color codes that correlate and the ones that do not are split exactly 50/50, and it seems highly unlikely that the fact that ANY correlate in the first place is merely coincidental.
It is possible that this image uses standard steganography, so the chance of it needing a password is low. It is believed that any data may be hidden in plain sight, and is probably a plaintext message of some sort. Photoshop and a working knowledge of number systems are most likely the best tools in this instance.