I was pretty amused when I walked into Rockerfeller Center to see two giant inflated black balls on either side of the base of the GE Building. Takashi Murakami rules.
Yeah, I realize we, the Gizmodo readers, are like supposed to know stuff and stuff, but a one line refresher on how QR code is like barcodes that do all kinds of things like direct you to websites might have been nice.
This whole "following your links to old stories" is hard.
(Also, that it's actually used a lot in Japan, which explains why Murakami would even bother - other than that he is awesome and crazy and crazy awesome.)
Nintendo did this a few years back with the Gameboy card reader. You plugged it into your gameboy, and swiped a couple of cards with modified bar codes on them.
very cool. wonder how much data they can pack in there per sq. inch. regarding the potential for fading to alter the code - they'll have a checksum in there so you're likely either going to get a successful read or an error. nothing in between.
Great. Now our computers can get something similar to the "virus" that Data and LaForge came up with to infect "Hugh" with, so they could defeat the Borg.
I wonder if something similar would work on Terminators.
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This whole "following your links to old stories" is hard.
(Also, that it's actually used a lot in Japan, which explains why Murakami would even bother - other than that he is awesome and crazy and crazy awesome.)
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DAMN NO PREVIEW/EDIT BUTTON. It's worse than no copy/paste on the iPhone!
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Aside from that, I'm totally getting an MMCC tattoo hidden on the left side of my torso if the ink can be read.
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what's so great about the Mosholu Montefiore Community Center?
mmcc.org
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I wonder if something similar would work on Terminators.
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Don't forget the ordered static that mind hacked Da5id in Snow Crash!
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@AfraidOfVelcro_GitEmSteveDave: Pick up Snow Crash, by Neil Stephenson...one of the best books you'll read this year.
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"Shouldn't that be in a LifeHacker post?"
more like io9, if you wanna split hairs.
@Razorgirl:
wha?? a girl that likes snow crash?
what's your sign?
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dude, i'll BUY you snow crash if you promise to read it.