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Here's My Two-Dimensional Barcode

By mikethemadbiologist on March 31, 2008.

So I found this real cool two-dimensional barcode generator. Here's this blog's two-dimensional barcode:

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It stands for:

Mike the Mad Biologist
http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist
Providing help to idiots who desperately need it by calling them fucking morons since 2004

What's your barcode?

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Uh, wha? Turn your site into a bar code, then download software that can read it, and then what?

What's the practical applications of this type of technology? Admittedly, cool, but I just don't get it.

Guess I'm just an old fogie at 29.

You can print that bar code almost anywhere, from a newspaper ad to barn door.

The idea is to take a photo of the bar code and feed it to a reader. Typically the reader would detect the URL in the code and send the web browser to that page. AFAIK the support is available for most smart phones with a built-in camera.

By Lassi Hippeläinen (not verified) on 31 Mar 2008 #permalink

Hey Mike! I chatted for you for a bit after your talk for Skeptical Drinking or whatever that was the other day. I was the...the drunk one. No, the other drunk one. Forget it. Great talk though, I enjoyed it.

Here's a question for you: Is there a book out there by an "intelligent design" proponent that's clearly written and presents what you think is their best argument? In the interest of "know thy enemy" - it occurred to me that I mostly hear about intelligent design from scientists who are bashing it, and I might as well get it direct from the horse's ass.

Thanks bud!

Alex,

"Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution" by Michael Behe is probably the 'best.'

Thanks Mike! I will check it out. From the library, so I'm not giving him my money.

Remarkable! After staring at the graphic for 15 minutes, I could see the Virgin Mary right in the middle of it.