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Clue: Part Four: Rust. 7414-7422. Hyphenations and abbreviations are one.

Solution: By Dweb

This refers to ‘Part Four’ titled ‘Trust’, from the book ‘Three Soldiers’ By John Dos Passos

http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/wwone/threes.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/wwone/threes.html#part4

It looked as if we had to do a word count and identify words 7414-7422

(8 words) in the document. Although it looked as if it could be character count, the fact they ‘hyphenation and abbreviation’ to be counted as one made word count the more porobable solution.

Whirlpoolians are at it, soon after the clue was released. They have identified some relevant words, but yet to be solved fully.

Clue: http://twitpic.com/dcdyr -

Solution: By Dweb and Bassborg:

This is obvious now. I did try the password ‘Swordfish’ even before this clue (Thanks, bassborg!). Anyway password is not ‘Swordfish’.

What this implies is that we need a password to crack it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish_%28password%29

The use of the word “Swordfish” refers to a password which originated in the 1932 Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers in a scene where Groucho Marx, as Professor Wagstaff, attempts to gain access to a speakeasy guarded by Baravelli (Chico). It was referenced in the movie Swordfish, the Robot Chicken Episode Password: Swordfish, the Terry Pratchett novel Night Watch, the book The Sword of the Samurai Cat, the movie Meet the Applegates, the movie Arena, the computer games Discworld, Return to Zork and Quest for Glory, and a Commodore 64 computer game Impossible Mission. In the premier episode of the television show Sam & Max, a character says “What’s the password…?

And if you say ‘Swordfish’ I’ll lose it!”

Clue: A soldier’s life for me!

Solution: By ThomasR@Whirlpool and BasTyra@Whirlpool

It points to Private being the third word  (Sodiers three again!) Also http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/soldiers/chapter8.html

Clue: What a way to make a livin’

Solution: By Rob:

That’s a line from the Dolly Parton song, “Working 9 to 5″

The Broadway play closes on September 6, 2009,  090609

Clue: 0011 1 3063527601

Solution: Credit goes to Rob for this one, refer to clue 53 comment.

Australia would dial 0011 to reach 1-306-352-7601

The phone number is located in Regina, Saskatchewan

Additional Information by Templeton:

Better Business Bureau Of Saskatchewan Inc.
201-2080 Broad St
Regina, SK
S4P 1Y3
(306) 352-7601
Fax: (306) 565-623
http://www.ziplocal.ca/companies/1282527-Better-Business-Bureau-Of-Saskatchewan-Inc
Can’t see the link here – maybe broad st ( I’m still not sure about the earlier clue about a famous street), but then when I posted about James Stewart

Clue: Seeking-financial-freedom? Your auction ends at exactly 07-Aug-09 22:15:47 AEST

Solution: By DWeb: [Thanks]

Refers to an Ebay listing – seller id ’seeking financial freedom’ and ending on the said date/time. Item listed is a book authored by Cyndi Kaplan, and by some coincidence (or not) there is a art school by the name of ‘Cyndi Kaplan’ at Bellevue Hill, NSW (which we came across in an old clue – Bell View Hill..)

Ebay Link [by bassborg] (thanks very much mate)

Clue: Head North into the wild from the mines of Solomon. At the halfway mark, you’ll find Thomas giving pointers.

Solution: By Templeton:

The Wild North (starred Stuart Granger 1952) ,King Solomon’s Mines (starred Stewart Granger 1950)
half way point = (1951) – Stuart Granger starred in Soldiers Three

Tom Reed was one of the writers of soldiers 3 (maybe this matches with “you’ll find Thomas giving pointers”)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044059/fullcredits#cast

Clue: One went to Washington, St Louis and Philadelphia, the second went to the rafters, and the third changed his name and played among the birds

Solution: As per Templeton’s findings:

This seems to fit: James Stewart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stewart
one starred in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Spirit of St. Louis , The Philadelphia Story
one changed his name to Stewart Granger – starred in The Wild Geese
one starred in Australian family comedy series ‘Packed to the Rafters’

Clue: Some birds can, some birds can’t. Theirs didn’t. Ours does.

Solution: I hope MS is not talking about girls Here are some ideas from the members, but previous to their ideas here is mine: obviously there are birds that can fly and others that cant, although you could take this into a context where MS could be saying that their browser has all the options needed while firefox, opera and chrome dont, but anyways here are the posts:

By Wombat:

http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/06/bing-maps-birds-eye-view-gives-different-perspective/

“The limited search capabilities on Bing Maps, Microsoft’s web map system, might make it look like a poor cousin to Google, but it does have one interesting feature the Big G lacks — a bird’s-eye view of selected Australian cities.

Google’s similar-but-different Street View has a much wider range of coverage, but the angled view offered by the ‘Bird’s eye’ option in Bing does make the overall layout of some city areas much clearer. Currently, there are bird’s eye maps for central Sydney and Melbourne, Geelong, Hobart, Wollongong and the Gold Coast; Microsoft says additional maps will be added later this year.”

Bird’s Eye – a feature of Bing maps that others don’t have. Already available in Australia while not yet widely available throughout the world.

Clue: The pigeon, the coot and the martin.

Solution: [By Up The Creek]

All i can see thus far is that they are typical Backyard Birds.. They like to live close to human Habitation

Humans and Nature side by side..

“Human Nature”

http://www.humannature.com.au/

Quartet: Four in the Group

2 Brothers Andrew and Michael Tierney joined with Toby Allen and Phil Burton in 1989 while at Hurlstone Agricultural High School representing their school in a combined regional schools concert at the Bankstown Town Hall. The quartet were known as The 4 Trax, a name that they retained until they began their recording career. The band performed “Earth Angel” a 1950s hit for The Penguins.

Four with Flightless Birds..

Could be just a headless chook too.. Wombats will sort that out?