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Code Red

Save the image to your computer (right-click/save as; on a Mac ctrl-click/save image as). Then go to this page where you can decode it (you can also encode your own messages and send them to your friends). In the decoded message is the url for a page you can only find by decoding the above code.

Category: 28 Weeks Later, Films, Movies, QR Code

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11 Responses

  1. jasmine says:

    tut- JPEGs for non-photos? Very naughty and bad and all sorts of not cool, Gia :-P

  2. giagia says:

    Format fascist. ;) (Here is the gif.)

  3. jasmine says:

    Hey, am I a fascist if I don’t like quantization artifacts?

  4. giagia says:

    ‘quantization artifacts’? Isn’t that what we fought against the Germans over in WWII?

    Or have I got it wrong again?

  5. Nicholas says:

    No, those are what we kept Indiana Jones chasing after for us. Most are stored in a super huge warehouse somewhere!

  6. giagia says:

    Oh yea!! I knew it had *something* to do with the Nazis, but I couldn’t quite remember… As you were.

  7. jasmine says:

    Every time you use JPEG on a non-continuous-tone image, Hitler kills a kitten.

    Please, think of the kittens.

  8. giagia says:

    Teh kittenz is in ur jpegs quantizin yer artifactz.

  9. jasmine says:

    CAN I HAZ ARTIFACT???

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Gia Milinovich is an American ex-pat, a science groupie and professional dork.

Gia's a TV presenter, enjoys taking photos, writes for Parentdish UK, is married to physicist Professor Brian Cox and thinks writing about herself in the third person is "cool".


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Gia worked on The X Files: I Want To Believe. Previously, she wrote the Sunshine production blog, was involved in the Indy4/Seesmic online junket and originated the 28 Weeks Later QR Code DVD release.