

Or maybe this is what actually happened:
(via michelle-dessler)
Remember the Glyphs code in ALIAS? Fringe uses it too (of course, J. J. Abrams is a co-producter of both series).
The Glyphs shown leading into commercial breaks in each episode suggest a visual alphabetic code.
Piggybacking on the work done in a recent Ars Technica article, editor Julian Sanchez has cracked the code of the Fringe Glyphs that appear at the commercial breaks. Each glyph and position of the yellow dot indicate a different letter.
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