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The symbol, which resembles a trumpet, was spray-painted in red at various locations, including South Hall, Manzanita Village and the Daily Nexus advertising office. Vandals tagged the University of California, Santa Barbara campus and parts of Isla Vista over Thanksgiving break, making use of a symbol found in the 1966 Thomas Pynchon novel The Crying of Lot 49. Santa Barbara, California - Postal Horns Moving South! The code was recently cracked by two Silicon Valley tech workers, Mark Snesrud and Bob Mayo. San Jose Semaphore, by artist Ben Rubin, is a permanent public artwork commissioned by Adobe Systems Incorporated in collaboration with the City of San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affair’s Public Art Program. San Jose, California - AugIt turns out that the entire text of The Crying of Lot 49 is being broadcast in semaphore from the top of Adobe's Almaden Towers headquarters. A shortfilm version of CL49 found on YouTube and created by someone who goes by the handle 'filibusterer'.

The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon