Hey bandwagon, wait for me!
I was thoroughly amused and entertained by the anarchy that transpired over at digg.com yesterday… (if you haven’t heard the goss, catch it here and here)… and perhaps more interesting than the legalities of the issue is how we’ve witnessed that the digg community is essentially one massive organism. The owners pulled the leash too tight and the dog bit back! I also learned a new term - the “Streisand Effect”: where the act of trying to cover up leaked information actually achieves the opposite as a result of the publicity that such activities receive - more here.
Another of the more interesting aspects is how people decided to disseminate the information once the can of worms had been opened. As I was strolling through my RSS feeds today, I noticed that people are now making t-shirts where each of the numbers has been converted to a colour… essentially making a bar code of the key. This ‘in joke’ is the sort of thing that really appeals to the geek crowd (me included!).
The next step was a logical one for me - you guessed it - my Analog Binary pattern has found a new purpose!
The magic number consists of 16 hexadecimal pairs - the grid below shows those pairs as a 4 x 4 grid.
When you place all of those symbols on top of each other, you get the following icon.
Now, I’d buy those t-shirts!
If you missed the Analog Binary Pattern post - catch it here.
