Possibly the finest barcode in the world

[andrewducker]

Stolen shamelessly from jwz

Comments

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

We have to go deeper!

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Damn, it's too low res for my iPhone app....

(I assume: it can't get an image, and it's normally fine on things off the screen!)

[andrewducker]

Strangely, it works from my laptop screen, but not from my desktop screen (HTC Desire with barcode reader app).

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Odd! I would have suspected my app, but for the fact that I only had to wave my phone near the screen showing the Dork Tower from t'other day for it to recognise it. This one, even framing the code in the little box didn't do it.

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

It's probably an artefact of your desktop refresh rate - if your laptop screen is LCD and your desktop cathode-ray that might explain it?

[andrewducker]

Cathode Ray? I'm afraid that that's still plugged into my pianola and collection of phonographic cylinders.

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Just sometimes Mr D I wonder why I admit to knowing you....

[andrewducker]

Because you know I'm never gonna let you down?

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Yeah and you know I'm never going to give you up!

[broin.livejournal.com]

Y'cock.

(stolen)

[blearyboy.livejournal.com]

Ingenious

[spacelem.livejournal.com]

Gah.

[dreema.livejournal.com]

oh dear, got by another one.

[innerbrat]

I don't get it.

[andrewducker]

It's a 2D barcode. Smartphones tend to have apps that can read them, and turn them into phone numbers or URLs. Thia one turns into the first few lines of Never Gonna Give You Up.

[innerbrat]

Oh I get it. An hilarious joke if you have the technology.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I think I'm glad that I have no idea what to do with this. Is it goatse or a rickroll?

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking rickroll from the other comments.

[andrewducker]

It's a 2D barcode. Smartphones tend to have apps that can read them, and turn them into phone numbers or URLs. Thia one turns into the first few lines of Never Gonna Give You Up.

[henriksdal.livejournal.com]

iiiiiiiiiiiiiii*

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

Almost enough to make me wish I had something that could read these. But not quite.

(Actually, my first assumption on seeing this was to note the repeating patterns of boxes in it and assume that it was somehow sending the program reading it into an infinite loop - almost disappointed that that's not the case. I do wonder, however, what the program's reaction to a barcode composed from the black boxes that indicate the corners would be...)

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

Personally, I was staring at it hoping to see a sailboat.