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T-shirt: "Mass Quantities of Code"

David Pescovitz at 9:37 am Tue, Jan 20, 2009

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I got a kick out of this t-shirt design from Headline Shirts. From the product description:
 Media Catalog Product Cache 3 Image 5E06319Eda06F020E43594A9C230972D M A Massquan Blk Il 258 Long known as a home of innovation, Silicon Valley is now known for something else: spreading the use of mass quantities of code. Code, also known as "zeros 'n ones" or "lines," is fast becoming a full-blown epidemic, even small towns.
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David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • nickmonkey

    I don’t get it. Does anybody get this?

  • Antinous / Moderator

    Yes.

  • Anonymous

    NickMonkey, it is simulating lines of another substance, cocaine, but instead of “powder” it is zeros and ones. The pun is that both cocaine and programming is done in “lines” and if you were addicted to something you might say you do a lot, or a “mass quantity.” A bit highbrow, possibly.

  • zuzu

    Oh, back during the dot-com bubble when morning coffee substituted meth for sugar to start the next day in a marathon of sleepless coding and 100-hour work weeks.

    “Good times“.

  • zuzu

    NickMonkey, maybe you’re just accustomed to doing bumps of code rather than whole lines? :p

  • samuraizenu

    Anyone ever done an eight ball of code in one night?

  • drbuzzkill

    Yes, or perhaps NickMonkey is just a tad sheltered. Nothing wrong with that. I often wish I could regain that lost sense of — SNOOOOORT — innocence.

  • Takuan

    is there any video of Beldar programming?

  • GregLondon

    That is awesome.

  • Johnny Cat

    http://tinyurl.com/993n39 perhaps.