On the first day, the Great Programmer created a new text file and the Universe was born.

Some genius has come up with a way round the Digital Millennium Copyright Act: The First Church Of Digital Grepping.

The Sacred Readme is a tad vague, but the church’s High Priest believes that “The Meaning Of Life” is encoded in either a popular song, or a Hollywood movie, or an Adobe e-book.

“If only we could figure out which ‘work of art’ the Sacred Readme refers to, and then grep through the binary representation to extract the divine message,” the High Priest explains.

The mission of the church is to make digital copies of every music CD, every movie DVD, and every printed book and then grep the digital version for any tell-tale signs of ‘The Meaning Of Life’.”

Hey, it’s no sillier than Scientology. (OK, so that’s not exactly setting the bar high…)