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[challenge entry] Bindun?

From the Office Art challenge. See all 328 entries (closed)

(, Sat 2 Jun 2007, 2:34, archived)
# that made me giggle
and i'm not sure why
(, Sat 2 Jun 2007, 2:35, archived)
# ^
:D
(, Sat 2 Jun 2007, 2:38, archived)
# clicketywoo
nice
(, Sat 2 Jun 2007, 2:39, archived)
# woo!
(, Sat 2 Jun 2007, 2:45, archived)
# I suspect so
but I think it's ace anyway!
(, Sat 2 Jun 2007, 8:08, archived)
# Woo Frontpage!
But to be honest I thought the wormhole one was going to be.

Thanks for the FP.
(, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 10:50, archived)
# media centre ftw!
(, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 12:41, archived)
# It's actually XP pro
I just downloaded the royale theme.
(, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 17:49, archived)
# I have no idea what HAL 9000 is about but it don't matter because I lolled inside either way
woo
(, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 12:55, archived)
# dave's documents
lol

(it's from 2001:A Space Odyssey if you don't get the HAL 9000 thing)
(, Sun 3 Jun 2007, 16:14, archived)
# I guess most of you guys know that HAL...
was named thus because of the letters that follow H, A and L in the 'English' alphabet. It was a wee computery-type joke by Arthur C. Clarke, or so I am led to believe.
(, Mon 4 Jun 2007, 2:15, archived)
# That
is kinda clever.
(, Mon 4 Jun 2007, 17:14, archived)
# Sorry, but coincidental
Arthur C Clarke said that it was short for "Heuristic Algorithm". Apparently there is also a reference to this in chapter 16 of the book.

(although not sure whether this represents The Sentinel, of the novelisation that came out after the film).

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(, Mon 4 Jun 2007, 17:45, archived)