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Proposed book cover for a Factory - related person's biography. The background is that the bar code is a direct binary translation of the person's initials. Would you even guess who the book was about? Would the cover interest you? Would it be funny watching confused shop assistants scanning the bar code on the front? Book cover is in nine different colours 
The forum won't let me post thumbnails, so here's the cover:
Any thoughts?
Cheers all.
Hum there are some ladies there offering to chat with me and some videos. I wonder what they are like.
Lovely I got a Malware waring as well. Ta
Where? On the image host site? Sorry... Thanks for letting me know 
Image posted now - completely safe!
Well if memory serves..."a" is 65 which is 01000001
b is 66 or 01000010
you know that the double lines on standard barcodes are the number 6 (they are scanned as 0110) and there are 3 sets of them? Hmmm none shall be able to buy or sell......
I think the barcode lines (front cover) are a direct reflection of the initials without any separation, but were represented in binary before being 'translated' to a bar code image. It's not to be scanned - it's the front cover. The 'real' barcode would presumably be on the back cover, along with the ISBN.
Thanks Steve. Mystery deepens...!
Well, verify it yourself.
Assucming I'm the only one around here who is tragic enough to know both binary and ASCII, I will provide a quick tutorial.
In school you were taught about the relative values of the columns in decmial..... Thousands, Hundreds, tens and units. so 1701 is
one thousand seven hundreds no tens and 1 unit
In (8 bit) binary the columns are
128's 64's 32's 16's 8's 4's 2's and 1's
so for example, 75 would be no 128's one 64 no 32's no 16's one 8 no 4's one 2 one 1
or 01001011
And in ascii, the (capital I think) letters begin with at 65 (or 01000001) So A is 65, B 66 (01000010) C 67 (01000011) D 68 (01000100)
that should be enough for you to work it out independently.
Any questions?
Bang on, and now I try again, I can not only not get OR, I can't remember how I did in the first place...it would appear I had the right answer at some point and subtracted one off it for no good reason?
At least PS makes sense.
EDIT: tis true what they say....clever people are really fucking stupid.
Doctor? wrote: tis true what they say....clever people are really fucking stupid.
And sometimes stupid people are really fucking clever 
Thanks for your help!
Murray the Decorator?!
Is that what you call yourself on weekdays, Chris?!
Better than slipping on sheertights and false eye-lashes and calling yourself Gladys de Ville, I guess?!
(Mind you, that gossamer does feel good stretched across yer thighs).
Doctor? wrote: Best guess.....
O R
Was going to say it would make a lot more sense if you were one out and it was P S
Sure I remember reading somewhere about Saville working on some barcode stuff.
LeggyD wrote:
Doctor? wrote: Best guess.....
O R
Was going to say it would make a lot more sense if you were one out and it was P S
Sure I remember reading somewhere about Saville working on some barcode stuff.
In Tesco's.
ShugZViking wrote:
LeggyD wrote:
Doctor? wrote: Best guess.....
O R
Was going to say it would make a lot more sense if you were one out and it was P S
Sure I remember reading somewhere about Saville working on some barcode stuff.
In Tesco's.
Peter Saville is designing the new Everton stadium 
