I want to tattoo one on my ass - that links to a picture of the face of my enemy.

got a match?

How fool proof are those cards? Couldn't some kid just add a little extra black to it somewhere with a magic marker and render it useless? Only the stronger kids could create damage to tombstones, but not anymore.

There's one reason I can think of not to introduce this technology to mainstream America: The Rick Roll.

I want mine to link to a fake video confessional telling all of the horrible things I've done and never got caught for.

@Kaiser-Machead:
All those puppies....

@faabshaam: QR code technology is supposed to have a crazy level of redundancy- it'll work fine even if you black out ~1/3 of it (so I heard).

@faabshaam: This is Japan. They have a little more respect for their elders and departed people than some idiots over here do.

That is...CREEPY. What if some bored insomniac decided to like go around the cemetary and look everyone up....creepy..

@Kaiser-Machead: all those whip-its...

If you look closely at that QR code, you can see the face of Jesus.

@Gary_7vn: I see a baby dragon getting impaled on giant thorns, but that's probably because I'm a sick bastard.

@Gary_7vn: I see Elvis. Maybe I am looking at it wrong?

(i almost cried when i thought gizmodo was blocked by the I.T people)

well, I guess that idea is a good idea if your good with ideas and the idea can be used as a good idea.

I wont say what I see in that card lest I be judged a complete pervert (its the fool moon, not me).

@Curves:
still hating that star?

"You know the Nazis had pieces of flare they use to make the Jews wear."

@nutbastard: I dont hate it, and I think Giz was being nice to give it to me, though I still have no clue why. Really, I am just one of the guys, the same as everyone else. If I have a star, I might be expected to say something intelligent, insightful, relevant, etc, etc, and anyone who reads the crap I spew here KNOWS that not going happen. I think its just temporary though, as strider doesnt have one, so I will wear it for as long as it stays. No free gadgets have been offered either.

(You're jealous and that is the fun part of it - Doing my IAMASTARANDNUTBASTARDISNT superiority dance.....)

@nutbastard:

"PC Load Letter?"
"What the F#@k does that mean?!"

I find this interesting both from the ability to offer a sort of extended epitaph, but also the future potential to store the whole memorial website in a similar type of encoding. (Or maybe some sort of passive RF device?)

I can't help but find it a bit on the tacky side, but at least it's relatively unobtrusive, and a far sight less obnoxious than the tombstone with an embedded LCD and speaker ISTR hearing about a year or two ago.

Can I have my gravestone link to ICHC?

Have they no shame?! They place advertisements in cemeteries? I start to pity the young'ns.

@Out2gtcha:
' "PC Load Letter?"
"What the F#@k does that mean?!" '

No, What the fuck does THAT mean? PC Load Letter? WTF are you smoking man?

@Angryrider: They're not advertisements. These are just also used in advertisements.

@Curves:
AHAAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!

HOPE YOU'RE DONE DANCING NOW! LOOK WHO HAS A MOTHERFUCKIN STAR!!!!!!

These things would be so easy to deface. Just slap on a new piece of vinyl that points to bearlove.com and its instant shame that lasts forever and ever. The gravekeepers will just have to be looking out for a new kind of vandalism.

On tombstones in america right under the "R.I.P." will be
"visit myspace.com/deadguy17863"

HAHA

@nutbastard:

-10 for NOT getting the Office Space reference.

And to answer your question, I only snuggle up to Uncle Willie.
Danish Spacecake is nice too.
G-13 always does the trick as well.

@Out2gtcha:
yeah but +1,000,000,000,000 points for my star, so im not worried about the point balance. Besides, that's a really obscure reference.

@nutbastard:
And a Rockzo reference isnt obscure?

Nah, its a cat!

@Out2gtcha:
not within an [adult swim] context... i've seen office space a half dozen times, and within the context of that movie, "PC Load Letter" is much more obscure than "I do cocaine!" is.

Do you SEE the star? Yeah. That's right.

@nutbastard:
Star be dammed! (Congrats BTW)

"You know the Nazis had pieces of flare they use to make the Jews wear."

Mine wasn't that obscure since I was just playing off your Office Space reference....

@Out2gtcha:
yeah yeah yeah, i see the parallel...

What software is used to read those codes?
I know the "correct" use is to take a picture of it on a portable device such as a camera phone... software decodes it to URL. But are there windows versions of it anywhere just for the curiosity of reading those?

In Japan, yes it's a great idea. In evangelical America though, there's only two QR codes that you'll see on caskets:

Ship to: Heaven
Ship to: Hell

Purgatory is when they mis sort your package and it hangs around some warehouse in Utah or something.

And UPS will charge exorbitant brokerage fees to the receiver to boot.

@nutbastard: Doing my IHADMYSTARBEFORENUTBASTARD superiority dance....

@electrikecho:

Trying to make sense of your post. I gather you hate evangelicals but beyond that ????

I use QR codes for different sites, but I never thought of it being used on a gravestone. I'm not sure I'd have a QR code that linked solely to a URL though. I mean if someone forgets, or is unable to pay that hosting bill....I guess it would be funny if someone got a 404 Error. The irony.

Anyways, you might want to limit a message to 200 characters, so that a phone could read the code that would be generated and perhaps slip in a URL as well.

Mine shall link to a Goatse mirror, because everyone will have forgotten about it by then.

@22rifle:
Nope. If anything I really dislike UPS

The imagery behind that post was an imaginary comic strip depicting the use of the QR codes for the dead in different cultures. One where Japanese people scan up messages from their deceased friends and relatives, and the other one where a UPS guy scans caskets to go to either heaven or hell, then misroutes one to purgatory. The evangelical part was just to set it into some sort of religious context. But that's a whole different story.

But it's not funny if I have to explain it. ("probably because it isn't funny" you might say)
Oh well.

@nutbastard:

@Out2gtcha:
' "PC Load Letter?"
"What the F#@k does that mean?!" '

No, What the fuck does THAT mean? PC Load Letter? WTF are you smoking man?

Obviously, he's smoking the "letter".

My wife tells me that they can also be used to make donations to the groundskeepers or charities.

I want one.