eon8, ASCII art battles!

Something.. is apparently counting down to July 1st.

I don't know what's going on, but it generated a post on one of the webcomics that I follow.

http://www.eon8.com/
http://www.eon8.com/security

Interesting things:
Hex in black on the bottom of the page - keeps changing though.
"ES-12"?

People have mostly determined that it's MD5.
http://www.md5lookup.com/
An awesome site to do reverse MD5 lookups. Online Rainbow tables, more or less. :D

Massive discussion on the site: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14673&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

It's even found its way onto NaNoWriMo's forums? http://www.nanowrimo.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29745&start=60

more links:
http://eon8whatthehellisit.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-is-this-weird-and-paranoia.html
http://eon8whatthehellisit.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-we-know-so-far-1day-to-go.html

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In other news:
http://user32.jog.buttobi.net/battler2/battler.swf

ASCII art battler. I... don't know. Anyone want to translate the Japanese?

My keyboard bashing technique has won... uh... at least 8 rounds now, and counting.

( my ascii creation as follows )