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Gosh!

May 2nd, 2007 by Steven Gould

When last I checked there were 55,000 hits on Google for these numbers.

When last I checked there were 55,000 hits for this number on Google.

(Still confused? See this.)

Posted in Food, Steve, Technology | 11 Comments »

11 Responses

  1. Rory Harper Says:

    I saw this earlier today, when Digg was crashed. Naughty of you to post it, Unca Stevie. I approve, of course.

    One more bit of evidence, as if it was needed, that DRM is not only a rotten, selfish idea, but a doomed one.

    EDIT: I like the use of a JPEG, incidentally, to defeat the bots scouring the net to find places to send take-down notices to. The horse is out of the barn, guys, and has been for a long time.

  2. Steven Gould Says:

    The hits on Da Google are now up to 356,000. Horse out of barn? It’s like the shopping industry trying to interdict anyone who talks about the veracity of the Easter Bunny. And those hits don’t include the interesting occurrence of images that incorporate this number. They aren’t Googly but you can see a series of them from this.

  3. katie cowden Says:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyldkyss/482705949/

  4. Rory Harper Says:

    Excellent, Katie!

    But that’s one hairy monkey-boy….

  5. Steven Gould Says:

    713,000 hits on Google. I predict it will exceed a million by this time tomorrow.

  6. Steven Gould Says:

    I was right. 1,230,000.

  7. Rory Harper Says:

    Cool! If only I had a DRM’ed HD-DVD to break into….

  8. Steven Gould Says:

    One point five million.

  9. Steven Gould Says:

    And now it’s 1.95 million.

    I may be obsessing on this but who the heck makes their entire security setup based on one 16 number code that, when it gets out, cannot be unbroken without ruining all the previous disks produced?

  10. LDA Says:

    Excellent pt!

  11. Steven Gould Says:

    1.99 million.

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