I’m a little late on this story, but I thought I’d leave a few words about the solving of a puzzle at Adobe headquarters in San Jose. The puzzle was known as the San Jose Semaphore, and it’s been on display for over a year with LED lights displaying what appeared to be random semaphores. The code was recently cracked, and it turned out to be the complete text of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 written out in code. No word yet on how many times the code was able to make it through the complete text of what is considered one of Pynchon’s lightest and most easily-accessible pieces of work during its time since installation.

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