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Lloyd Gilbert

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Mar 23, 2012, 2:28:03 PM3/23/12
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This image purports to be THHGTTG encoded at one letter per pixel:

http://i.imgur.com/uGE2y.png

I read about it here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ra4lg/this_is_the_entirety_of_the_hitchhikers_guide_to/

That same reddit link made tiny:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/7h58tkk

Lloyd
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Nemo Maelstrom Thorx

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Mar 25, 2012, 4:29:59 AM3/25/12
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On 23 Mar (a Friday in 2012) around 1828 hours, Lloyd Gilbert did utter:
That's quite neat. I have my doubts about it being copylegalright, but
the method alone means it's not likely to become a common piracy method.
Most interesting to me was the variation of text after jpeg encoding! =)

.../Nemo

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Stevie fae Cardross

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Mar 26, 2012, 8:41:15 AM3/26/12
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On Mar 25, 9:29 am, Nemo Maelstrom Thorx
<afda.REMOVEC...@NOPYTHONSKETCHES.nemo.house.cx.COM> wrote:
> On 23 Mar (a Friday in 2012) around 1828 hours, Lloyd Gilbert did utter:
>
>
>
> > I read about it here:
> >http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ra4lg/this_is_the_entire...
>
> That's quite neat. I have my doubts about it being copylegalright, but
> the method alone means it's not likely to become a common piracy method.
> Most interesting to me was the variation of text after jpeg encoding! =)
>
> .../Nemo
>
> --
>   ------------------------------------------ --------------------------
>                                                     earth native

A shame DNA isn't still around (Fatuously Obvious) but I've just had
one of those 'whatever would DNA think?' moments that Stephen Fry says
he has all the time.

Tian

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Mar 27, 2012, 3:54:03 AM3/27/12
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I'd like it more if I didn't think it looked like industrial carpet.

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Amro Bank

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Mar 27, 2012, 5:20:10 AM3/27/12
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Op 27-3-2012 9:54, Tian schreef:
> Stevie fae Cardross wrote:
>> On Mar 25, 9:29 am, Nemo Maelstrom Thorx
>> <afda.REMOVEC...@NOPYTHONSKETCHES.nemo.house.cx.COM> wrote:
>>> On 23 Mar (a Friday in 2012) around 1828 hours, Lloyd Gilbert did utter:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I read about it here:
>>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ra4lg/this_is_the_entire...
>>>>
>>> That's quite neat. I have my doubts about it being copylegalright, but
>>> the method alone means it's not likely to become a common piracy method.
>>> Most interesting to me was the variation of text after jpeg encoding! =)
>>>
>>> .../Nemo
>>>
>>> --
>>> ------------------------------------------ --------------------------
>>> earth native
>>
>> A shame DNA isn't still around (Fatuously Obvious) but I've just had
>> one of those 'whatever would DNA think?' moments that Stephen Fry says
>> he has all the time.
>
> I'd like it more if I didn't think it looked like industrial carpet.
>

Damn, now I have to photograph industrial carpet looking for hidden
messages... (and because I said it online (devilsh grin) so has every
mayor intelligence service in the world.... Muhahaha !)

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Amro

Lloyd Gilbert

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Mar 27, 2012, 8:23:34 AM3/27/12
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:54:03 -0700, Tian <tnha...@aceweb.com> wrote:

>Stevie fae Cardross wrote:
>> On Mar 25, 9:29 am, Nemo Maelstrom Thorx
>> <afda.REMOVEC...@NOPYTHONSKETCHES.nemo.house.cx.COM> wrote:
>>> On 23 Mar (a Friday in 2012) around 1828 hours, Lloyd Gilbert did utter:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I read about it here:
>>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ra4lg/this_is_the_entire...
>>> That's quite neat. I have my doubts about it being copylegalright, but
>>> the method alone means it's not likely to become a common piracy method.
>>> Most interesting to me was the variation of text after jpeg encoding! =)
>>
>> A shame DNA isn't still around (Fatuously Obvious) but I've just had
>> one of those 'whatever would DNA think?' moments that Stephen Fry says
>> he has all the time.
>
>I'd like it more if I didn't think it looked like industrial carpet.

Yeah, I know what you mean.
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