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December 29, 2002
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.Hey, it's no sillier than Scientology. (OK, so that's not exactly setting the bar high...)
"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'."
Posted by John at December 29, 2002 10:02 PM
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Finally. A cult I could actually be convinced to join.
Posted by: Nicklas at December 30, 2002 01:03 AM
too bad it doesn't exist, just a joke humorix did... but we could do it. Who's with me?
Posted by: Jason at July 8, 2004 06:40 AM