/ sigh of relief

It gives the rest of us not-so-smart ones great comfort to know that, even people as smart as Google can stumble on their own intelligence sometimes. In your face, geeks!

Attendees of the Google I/O conference were given t-shirts that, presumably, were supposed to spell GOOGLEIO on the front in binary. Just one problem, the actual message printed spells GOOGLEKO:

G: 01000111
O: 01001111
O: 01001111
G: 01000111
L: 01001100
E: 01000101
K: 01001011
O: 01001111

BTW did you know that upper and lower case letters have different binary spellings?

[ via: TechCrunch ]

Posted on May 29, 2008