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  1. Re:Seattle Cold War Civil Defense Manual by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 1 · on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed
    Yes, clearly I am a criminal of the lowest sort to wish to get some visible credit if people out there copy and use the images that I put my time and energy into scanning. What a tragedy that I would ruin these super-high quality 800x1024 jpegs by placing a small reference to my site in the corner underneath all the relevant text on each page.

    If you have such a huge problem with the super-imposed logo, you could have bothered reading this bit in the intro:
    High resolution, non-watermarked TIFF files are also available upon request.
    As in, the priceless historical documents are preserved in a 2533x3244 non-compressed, non-logo-ified format, and freely available to anyone who takes the huge effort it requires to simply ask. But I suppose that would have ruined your opportunity for the little over-dramatic show you just put on there.
  2. Seattle Cold War Civil Defense Manual by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 4, Informative · on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed

    Here's a little self-plug for something somewhat related that I scanned. A "Civil Defense Manual" for Seattle from 1951. Check it out, there's some unintentionally amusing stuff in there.

  3. As long as we're sharing... by funny-jack · · Score: 3, Funny · on Nintendo A Capella

    ...here is a recording of the lyrics I wrote to the original Super Mario Brothers main theme. Enjoy.

  4. It's even simpler than that. by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 4, Interesting · on $1.5 Million Bar-code Scheme Bilks Wal-Mart Stores

    It's even simpler than that. One summer about 8 years ago when I was in high school, I sat down and decoded the UPCs of a few products in an afternoon. Once you know what the codes are, it's trivial to draw your own bar codes using MS Paint. You can then print them off using any old ink-jet printer. Don't believe me? This is the page that I wrote up after figuring it all out. I made the UPC graphics on that page using just Paint. I also printed off some test barcodes using the cheapo inkjet we had, and ran them by the "price checker" thingys in the local Target. They scanned no problem.

    I've wondered for years whether it would really be that easy to get away with switching UPCs just like this. I guess the answer is "pretty easy." Of course, if you get as greedy as these people did, you're obviously going to get caught before too long.

  5. Good call. by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 2, Informative · on Alternatives to Cars?

    Hmm, good call. It was mainly because I admire the visual style of the PT Cruiser. Of course, I also know that no one who may buy me gifts (family or friends) is going to buy me a $20,000 car, so it was mainly up there as a joke.

    But, since you mentioned it, I have changed it. :^)

  6. Bzzt. WRONG! by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 1 · on Barcodes: The Number of the Beast

    Standard UPC bar codes consist of a set of lines to mark the start of the code, the left hand part of the code itself, another set of marker lines, the right hand part of the code itself, and a third set of marker lines:

    True...

    The marker lines are "0101", "01010" and "1010" respectively, where 0 is white and 1 is black.

    True...

    Now, the encoding scheme is complicated, but it just so happens that "0101" if treated as data on the left hand side would decode to the digit "6". Similarly, "1010" on the right hand side would decode to a "6" if it were data.

    Here's where you diverge from the truth. Numbers are represented by 7 bars, each either black or white. The code for 6 on the left is 1011110, and on the right is 0101000 (where 0 is white and 1 is black). Thus, there is no 666 in bar codes. Not even kinda-sorta.

    See my website for more info. Or, read the Snopes article on the matter. But please, stop spreading this dis-information.

  7. Info on barcodes... by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 1 · on Barcodes: The Number of the Beast

    For anyone who is interested, and doesn't already know: http://www.timandjeni.com/study/upc.html

  8. for reference... by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 1 · on Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping

    This is the page that he is referring to. Admittedly, the last two were rather small, but they did have cows, and it was pretty plain to me after looking at just the first two pictures that the theme was cows.

  9. a true story about letters to the editor... by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 4, Funny · on Google vs. Boilerplate Activism

    Back a few years ago while I was in college, a friend and I ran a little humor club of sorts... Our "publications" were few, but we thought they were pretty quality...

    Anyway, in the parody that we made of our school's website, we encouraged people to use Scott Pakin's automatic complaint-letter generator to generate letters to submit to our school paper as letters to the editor. As it turns out, I was reading said paper a few months later, and came across a very familiar writing style... We got quite a kick out of it.

    ahh... memories.