Evil Genius?
Here's a tshirt from an usually offensive tshirt website. (Nobody likes offensive tshirts. Sometimes)
This time they're more geeky than offensive:
anybody who understands binary can figure out that 00110110 = 54
so why does 00110110 00110110 00110110 = 666?
Nobody knows. Do you?
And what does the answer have to do with pictures of cows?
Submitted by
ben and jim
at 6/6/2006 10:41:03 AM- 54 is 6 in the ASCII table
and 54 is 36 in hex, 3 6's
18 dollars = 3 * 6 dollars
and of course, white text on black background -- way evil.
Submitted by
nobody
at 6/6/2006 5:29:40 PM- the second answer is the better answer.
the first answer yields 6 6 6 6 6 6, and doesn't explain the leading zeroes. But since ASCII is 8-bit, that explains why there are 8 digits.
and if there are people unfamiliar with the ascii cows from the ancient days of the internet...
TshirtHell charges $18 for all their shirts...and the relationship to 666 might be the reason.
Submitted by
gfar
at 6/7/2006 4:10:19 PM- 00110110 is 66 in octal, which would give a whole lot of 6s as well. But anyway, this shirt is lame. I like their more offensive shirts.
Submitted by
nobody
at 6/11/2006 10:27:15 AM- our favorite, which we wore just the other day, bears the slogan, "You can't have manslaughter without laughter." Wish we could wear that to work, to combat the silly corporate slogans that get batted about constantly.
"There's no I in team", etc
The truly offensive ones we laugh at on the screen, but we would never wear.
Submitted by
nobody
at 9/20/2006 8:06:39 PM- The image above is hotlinked from TshirtHell itself. (Hotlinking is evil, we know, but they're TShirtHell!)
It appears TShirtHell 'corrected' the tshirt so it is now just a binary joke instead of a joke that requires knowledge of both binary and ascii.
we didn't set the timestamp to look like that.
nor were we intentionally waiting to post this question until today.
it was completely serendipitous.