Buying ones and zeros
From Daring Fireball:
…people will happily pay for things they can actually hold in their hands, but you can’t touch ones and zeroes.
Y’know, it’d be kind of cool to be able to buy a set of eight ones and zeroes with the binary value of your choice. I’m thinking they’d be a couple inches high, either black or available in different colors, and easy to stand up next to each other.
Daniel Jalkut Said,
May 9, 2006 @ 8:57 pm
The tricky thing is getting those zeroes to stand up straight!
Jonathan Johnson Said,
May 10, 2006 @ 7:56 am
You can already kind-of accomplish this: go to the local hardware store and get house numbers. They don’t stand up on their own, but you could easily fashion something to attach them to.
Marc Said,
May 10, 2006 @ 2:39 pm
I don’t think you can do that. We already own ones and zeroes.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130
Eric Albert Said,
May 10, 2006 @ 2:53 pm
Darn it! Maybe you’d license them?