Wednesday, March 31, 2010

T33 Tim3 for Golfers

Semiotics for golfers:



Seeing this cover made me wonder if the editors of Michigan Links got a bit of inspiration from the television show Numbers?








2 comments:

Glen Turpin said...

1337 (pronounced 'leet' or 'elite' ) has been around for decades, long before the TV show Numbers.

It's actually a good way to make your passwords more secure without resorting to meaningless strings of letters and numbers, because you can use number and symbol substitution in an easy-to-remember password or passphrase.

Read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet.

Laura Payne said...

Hi Glen,

Thank you for mentioning leet in relation to this post. I have actually posted about Leetspeak previously, and about its semiotic orthography.

http://walkinthewords.blogspot.com/2009/04/semiotic-orthography-of-leetspeak.html

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