Rock the Red, White and Blue. In Binary.(Code for America site)

Code for America ^ | 6/26/2010 | various

[ozark hilljilly]

"In the spirit of the Fourth of July, we’ve put together some posters with a few of our favorite quotes from our Gov (1.0) heroes. They helped define the very principles we want our fellows to realize through Gov 2.0 — democracy, participation, and patriotism — so they couldn’t be more relevant now. Check out all six below; each links to a printable (and text-selectable) pdf. Share, print, and post them to spread the word, and help others see how we’re all — coders, old and new — speaking the same language."

Quotes in binary from Kennedy, FDR, Susan B. Antony, Adama, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Thought this might be of interest to the resident geeks of FR.

[ozark hilljilly]

[Brad’s Gramma]

Since I have NO clue how to do this...let me present my own code to you.

xoxoxo

[ozark hilljilly]

Ahhhh, thanx Brad’s Gramma!
Back atcha, dear!

[ozark hilljilly]

Ahhhh, thanx Brad’s Gramma!
Back atcha, dear!

[Brad’s Gramma]

xoxoxo!!! ;)

[Talisker]

Gov (1.0) - System Architect: James Madison

Gov (2.0) - System Architect:

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTW....as slow as this connection is....and with it being Saturday and all...and my putting up the Chaplain thread soon...if FR goes down AGAIN on a Saturday, I’m taking it PERSONALLY.

Not JR’s fault. It’ll be “Big ears” fault.

There. I’ve had my say.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

[Yo-Yo]

In four-digit binary, the digits equate to 8421, positionally.

More to the point, I believe the quotes are in binary ASCII Code. For example, here is the first part of the Madison quote decoded:

01010111 = W
01100101 = e
00100000 = [space]
01110100 = t
01101000 = h
01100101 = e
00100000 = [space]
01010000 = P
01100101 = e
01101111 = o
01110000 = p
01101100 = l
01100101 = e

[Dr. Sivana]

Wouldn’t EBCDIC be more likely in use in the 18th century?

[Kevmo]

Fun Binary Converter < http://www.paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ >

01000111 01101111 01100100 00100000 01000010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01000001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001

[Yo-Yo]

Wouldn’t EBCDIC be more likely in use in the 18th century?

I'd say Baudot Code would be more likely than EBCDIC.

[rabidralph]

Who came up with this crap?!

[Dr. Sivana]

I'd say Baudot Code would be more likely than EBCDIC.

You are right. And now I know where the term "baud" comes from!

[rabidralph]

It still blows my mind. 0,1, etc.

[rabidralph]

Oh, and thank you for this explanation. I actually understood it. Not why 8=the 1,000th place but I managed to understand the added up numbers. That’s more than I got out of the Computer 101 in college, which I dropped after the first day.