Here's the mystery: The listing here says this is the place to go if you mean to surf the Web. But when I went to the Web site, I found an unusual use of frames --- the left frame is basically irrelevant; you're instructed to widen the right frame and that's how you navigate through the site. But there's more: on the very first frameset you follow you are instructed to "Enter the Intranet." I was given pause by this. Intranet? Isn't that what we call a company's internal and shielded equivalent to the Internet?

I went in anyway. It wasn't password protected.

Before I go on, I should give you one more clue in my path at siliconseaside. On that first frameset, below the entry invitation, was a notation indicating that the e-mail newsletter "will keep you informed of when this site is updated." Okay, lots of newsletters are notification lists... but what follows here will show you how *interesting* that could be... and how it may solve the mystery I'm describing.

Once inside the left frame's pages, you'll note that there's a note saying that you are at "Silicon Seaside Ltd." That's like a company name, right? But then the mystery deepens, because almost all of the pages contain descriptions of what will be on them. There is one exceptions, I'll get to it in a moment.

Here's the core of the mystery: I looked at every single page here and couldn't help but feel that I was looking at *a work in progress.* OR, to put it another way, a *template* for a potential Web site. (If this was true, I thought, the newsletter could be a conceptional experiment in collaborative Web building... "Let's not get too deep and esoteric here!" I admonished myself.) But I couldn't be sure. That's why I'm seeking your assistance.

One last note before I pass the baton of solving this mystery to you: I did find one page that was more than a description of what it would be. That was the "R & D Downloads" page. Here's the first lines from that page:

"This page provides the R&D department with a place to distribute new software over the network, This is not software that we have developed but software from all over the net that we think will play a part in the future of computer networks. It might be slightly *dodgier* than the software found on the help download page but hey, "That's research baby". We will be sure to list version numbers, operating systems (ie: Mac, Win 3.1, or Win '95), and any other important information. Any instructions or release notes that need to go along with the software will also be listed on or linked from this page..." Below this note are links to downloadable software.

Well, that's all I have. Good luck with this mystery, and please share with me what you discover.