and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

Okay, regular readers it is time to avert ye eyes.

I was working all night (and into today) with that damn ask-metafilter thread on my mind from two posts down. God knows what it is about and, by the looks of things, people have pretty much fleshed out what can be known for the time being. Nevertheless, there was much talk of squares, circles, diamonds, and them being one within the other:

Maybe the centre of the circle/diamond is what is of interest.

Do you get anything interesting if you superimpose the entire image (the diamond, the square, and the circle) on a map? Do the square points line up anywhere interesting?

It quickly occurred to me that the points might not actually be a perfect diamond.. or maybe the diamond was intended to be inside the circle, not the other way around (like the wacky scientology logo). So I went off and found this document (pdf) that describes a nice mathematical way to find the estimated center of a circle given a set of points - basically fitting the points to the best possible circle, regardless of whether they actually lie on the circle.

It was 15 minutes into programming it up that I realized the work was already done in Java here (java).. so then I just grabbed the code, and worked up some results. Note that this doesn't take the 'ol strangeness of that oblong spheroid we call earth into consideration - no great circle calculations or nothing. If it were a perfect sphere none of this would matter, of course, the center of the circle would still give you the center on the globe. Nevertheless, onwards and upwards..

The set of coords mentioned by Steven C. Den Beste was:

36.6266N 111.6691W Bitter Springs, AZ
36.4385N 99.39120W Woodward, OK
41.6649N 105.8069W Lookout, WY
31.2998N 103.8377W Ft. Hancock, TX

Which gave me an estimated center at:

036.33896600N 105.58903637W (google maps)
Which is basically IN TOWN Taos, NM, which was discussed heavily in the early parts of the metafilter thread. Given that the SWF file at thepurification.org that started this all had a variable in it tamed "countertaos", I'm gonna say that is truly the intended center.

Interestingly, ericb points out that Taos is known for its hum:

The Hum is a phenomenon involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency noise of a humming character and unknown origin, not audible to all people, reported in various geographical locations, including Taos, New Mexico, and thus it is sometimes called the Taos Hum: the lore of this phenomenon has become part of the appeal of Taos.(wikipedia page)

Furthermore, LobsterMitten says:

There's a movie called Taos in post-production now, scheduled for release in 2006. It's the story of one man's personal spiritual journey in the desert outside Taos.

Granted it seems to be a very small budget deal and nothing Hollywood-esque but then SWF isn't particularly hard to code, either. The film is shot/set in Taos and its close neighbour Tres Piedras (just north on Interstate 64), among others.

It does seem as though it is unrelated but the movie, "Taos", nevertheless hints at a little bit of mysticism when the main character is stranded in Taos:

John Wahlberg (RIB HILLIS) works round-the-clock trying to meet the needs of others while ignoring his own. When your life is out of balance and headed in the wrong direction, where do you stop to turn around? For young John Wahlberg, the unexpected detour of Taos became the rest stop that saved his life. John works as a corporate attorney in a large Washington D.C. law firm, trading his nights and weekends for extra cash and the promise of a secure future. Lyndsey Palmer (JULIE DORRIS), John's girlfriend, wants more. She's blue-blood, well-bred and has plans for John as soon as he accepts a job with her father's bank. Estranged from his own family since the untimely death of his father, John keeps his focus on the future as he heads to Aspen for the Christmas holidays to propose to Lyndsey and embrace her family's expectations. A work crisis on his way out forces John to miss his flight and lands him in Albuquerque, where he rents a car to make the drive north to Aspen. In the middle of the high desert, the car breaks down alongside the lonely highway. Exhausted and out of his element, John is stranded in Taos. Through a series of unexpected personal encounters and fateful events with the local residents, old wounds begin to surface and new perspectives emerge as John gets caught up in the events of the mystical town. Lost in the desert of Taos - where life finds its balance - John questions if dreams can truly become reality. A powerful personal journey, TAOS is about dealing with unexpected loss while forging a balance between competing family, work and personal interests.(imdb page)

The movie has a website with two frontpages here and here. The second link has a note: "Copyright 2000-2002" so it seems to have been in the works for quite awhile. There are no links on the front pages but Google gives me this links page which seems to be the site navigation center. Full plotline here.

Another completely unrelated site, Taos Communications Empire, has listings of a few movies and their front page says:

UFOs, cult authors, suppressed cancer cures and more. You'll find it all at Taos Communications Empire, a New Mexico-based video and film production company. Started by President Anthony DellaFlora and Vice President James Lujan in 1997, this independent movie company is committed to bringing intelligent, compelling, offbeat documentaries to the film-viewing public.

Lots of UFO stuff and weird spirituality goings-on, but all the movies have already been released or are not looking like they are coming out now or in the near future.

Sidetrack: A 1975 movie named "Moment to Moment" was also known as "Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos" and was apparently written by Robert Downey Sr. (screenplay by his wife L.C. Downey). The plotline is obviously not the same movie at all, this one is a comedy.

Meanwhile, try a webcam of the Taos Mountains. That's all I got.