After yesterday's confused rant about the mysterious black and white Powerbook-and-question-mark graphic that appeared briefly on O'Grady's PowerPage only to vanish inexplicably a few hours later, several AtAT viewers wrote to confirm that we weren't simply imagining things. Faithful viewer Darron Froese claims that he saw the graphic, too, reassuring us that it wasn't a vision brought on by "aliens, vampires, or drug-laced pizza." And Jason Kim goes so far as to tell us that we're "not crazy" (he don't know us too well, do he?) because he saw the "enigmatic" Powerbook image as well. At that point, we figured that unless we were the collective victims of a mass CIA-induced hallucination that spanned the continent, we could be pretty sure the image was real-- of course, we like to keep an open mind, especially since today's update on the PowerPage made no mention of the graphic whatsoever...

But the AtAT Gold Star goes to viewer Michael Rosenquest, who brought us the equivalent of a well-preserved alien corpse. Michael, with all the paranoid forethought of a seasoned paranormal investigator, not only saw the graphic, but saved it to disk. And it gets better-- that "stark black and white image" we saw was more than it seemed. In Michael's words:

...While I was adjusting the contrast on my monitor, I noticed that there was more information in the image then was readily apparent. So, I opened the pic up in Photoshop (what would I do without Photoshop?), and started playing with the brightness and contrast of the image until... Voilà! I give you Wall Street... At left is the original image posted by O'Grady's, and at right is the one which I produced in Photoshop, showing much more detail than the original pic. The Wall Street / Main Street bears an interesting resemblance to the much smaller 2400: the slabbish look of the wrist rest, with a sharp angle leading to the bottom of the unit, with a general curviness that far outstrips the current Powerbook G3. Unfortunately, it dosen't use the 2400 Nike "swoosh" mouse button, but does retain the inverted arrow keys of the mini-PB.