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Japanese Barcodes (Pic)

I'm partial to the zebra who is about to stomp the ant with his foot-sock. ...full story at digg

from digg on Sat, Nov 07 2009

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20 Jun 08 visit Sixth British Columbia stray foot a hoax  »  the register (uk) 'Reprehensible and disrespectful' The sixth "foot" discovered wearing an Adidas trainer on the shores of British Columbia earlier this week was not human, but rather "a skeletonised animal paw ... inserted into the shoe with a sock and packed with dried...
06 May 08 visit Do Zebra Stripes Actually Help?  »  slashdot RyoShin writes "A List Apart, an excellent resource for web development and related aesthetics, has put together an article based on original research by Jessica Enders into 'zebra striping.' From the article: 'Zebra striping [coloring alternate rows] is...
04 Apr 08 visit Creative Barcodes (PICS)  »  digg Barcodes, or UPC symbols, these ubiquitous emblems of our consumer civilization, have received a radical makeover - it seems that barcode symbols are ingrained in the very fabric of our reality.
28 Jul 09 visit Bokode - Barcodes for the rest of us  »  digg Product barcodes provide information to checkout scanners in retail stores, but that's about all they do. Now, researchers at the Media Lab have come up with a new kind of very tiny barcode that could provide a variety of useful information to shoppers as...
29 Jan 08 visit Google's Newspaper Ads: Big Hopes For Small Barcodes (GOOG) (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider)  »  techmeme Google's Newspaper Ads: Big Hopes For Small Barcodes (GOOG)  —  Google's efforts to get into the newspaper ad business have yet to yield much.  One tool it hopes will eventually change that: Small, square barcodes, like the one at the...

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