It appeared pretty quickly on the screen last night, so unless you could understand the scratchy film Locke and Jack watched or had a pausable recording of the show, you may have missed who made the strange footage shown on Lost last night: The Hanso Foundation. And yes, someone's already figured out that they have a website.
There's not a whole lot to see there yet, but it sure seems we can expect something to appear soon. Hover close to the bottom of the list of "active projects" and you'll see a familiar name: Dharma initiative. (Geek note: I love that the Juxtapositional Eugenics Development Institute's initials are JEDI).

I now believe this new information points to a couple of theories about the hatch lair. First of all, I think Jack could be right, that it's a mind game experiment to see how long someone will actually keep entering the code and hitting the button. Or maybe to see how long of an uptime an Apple ][ can have (sorry, lame techie geek joke). Did you notice the year that film was made? 1980. So that means the code has been entered for maybe 25 years now?

There's also evidence that the fictional Hanso Foundation does studies on life extension and selective breeding. It may be that, as someone once pointed out, entering the code and pushing the 'execute' button sends a signal to some remote station as a "yes we're still alive" message.

Remember when Sayid figured out how long that transmission had been going on, the one that Danielle's voice was saying over and over again, pleading for help? Then the strange male voice saying "iteration ..." and a number? That certainly sounds like yet another experiment: how long can we have this woman's transmission repeat, over and over.

I'm also liking the theory of nanotechnology more. After looking at the list of Hanso's active projects, nanotech would fit right in. Remember that electromagnetic field in the hatch lair? Could that be a containment field for a large number of nanotech bots? If he fails to enter the code, more of the nanobots get unleashed. I say "more" because it sure seems that the island "monster" may possibly be something like that, as it's already confirmed that Jack, Kate and Locke saw a "wisp of smoke" like we all did, when they dynamited the thing in the hole last season. Nanotech would certainly explain the smokey look.

So, could Hanso really have made nanotech back 25 years ago? That's where I'm not so sure.

[UPDATE: Looking for what is said on that 877-HANSORG voice message? Check here.]