March 28th, 2011 / 12:32 pm
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Can someone tell me what this is and why it’s everywhere?

22 Comments

  1. March 28th, 2011 / 4:35 pm Brendan W—

      You scan it with your phone and the advertisement enters you

  2. March 28th, 2011 / 4:37 pm Pontius J. LaBar—
  3. March 28th, 2011 / 4:37 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Illuminati wants your mind, soul, and your body.

  4. March 28th, 2011 / 4:40 pm Anonymous—

      Fuck this is so weird

      “QR codes have been used in Japanese cemeteries on grave markers as a way to share additional information and unite mourners. No examples of this outside Japan are known.”

  5. March 28th, 2011 / 4:53 pm Dreezer—

      Very informative, thanks. I assumed it was evil but didn’t know for certain.

  6. March 28th, 2011 / 5:01 pm Sean—

      This exact thing is on all lotto tickets in Indiana.

  7. March 28th, 2011 / 5:06 pm Ryan Call—

      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvwcgQpyqU

  8. March 28th, 2011 / 5:21 pm Pontius J. LaBar—

      I’m sure by the end of this comment threat someone will be composing their next short novel entirely in QR codes.

  9. March 28th, 2011 / 5:25 pm M. Kitchell—

      hyperlinked reality bros

  10. March 28th, 2011 / 5:40 pm Tummler—
  11. March 28th, 2011 / 5:59 pm deadgod—

      ha ha ha

      it was “so hard” for me – never heard of ‘quick response’/matrix barcodes

      (might have guessed that the images are an identifying code)

      two questions:

      1) how could someone use a search engine to find the name of a category of images without knowing what to call them? – only by googling something (for the above example) like ‘square array of rectangles in two colors’ (which I wasn’t patient enough to pursue)?

      I mean to ask whether there’s an image search engine, like a face-recognition or fingerprint-matching program, only more generalized

      2) are there three-dimensional matrices used to label things?

  12. March 28th, 2011 / 6:52 pm kb—

      NWO.

      By which I mean Hollywood Hulk Hogan, the real puppetmaster of our society.

  13. March 28th, 2011 / 7:30 pm Anonymous—

      This is so cool because I have always been frustrated by my inability to interface fully with advertising. Why can’t I follow up on an ad, learn more, engage with the product, etc.? I don’t want the experience to end with simply viewing the advertisement– I want the advertisement to be the start of my journey into complete product immersion.

  14. March 28th, 2011 / 8:25 pm Sean—

      Feeling old. How did you make it Google it for me?

  15. March 28th, 2011 / 9:26 pm Caleb Ross—
  16. March 28th, 2011 / 11:10 pm Anonymous—

      i’m ok with this

  17. March 29th, 2011 / 12:57 am deadgod—

      ha ha

      “member: team [product]”

      wasn’t there a car – an ‘exclusive’ (= $$ > ass) purchase – that encouraged a ‘journey into product immersion’

      don’t many objects/services-for-sale have websites where a purchaser can join, play, belong

      – even books? aren’t there one or two websites that are blogs-that-flog-literary-product-immersion??

      ha ha ha ha ha

  18. March 29th, 2011 / 2:16 am anon—
  19. March 29th, 2011 / 3:34 pm Erica Mena—

      I’m working on a literary project involving these too – though as a publisher not a writer for the moment. But also, it’s the same kind of technology (not exactly, but uses the same principles) that drives this: http://betweenpageandscreen.com/

  20. March 30th, 2011 / 12:14 am Anonymous—
  21. March 30th, 2011 / 7:10 pm david fishkind—

      jesus i was wondering that too that’s so dumb

  22. March 31st, 2011 / 1:41 am Russ—

      i thought it was dumb until i realized i can make any text i want into a weird secret code picture and now i kind of love it.