L33t ads.

• Miss Cellania
  March 31st, 2007 at 10:49 am

  “Now Hiring”

• cl
  March 31st, 2007 at 11:24 am

  ascii code. nice. i especially love the null character at the end.

• Chris
  March 31st, 2007 at 12:45 pm

  Considering EA’s disdain for quality assurance (see: Battlefield 2 series) it would have been more apropos of them to forget the null character.

• nongeek
  March 31st, 2007 at 1:37 pm

  WTF are you talking about?

• Akiro
  March 31st, 2007 at 1:49 pm

  Although EA has been criticized lately Chris and nongeek, they remain a gaming giant only enveloping more companies as time passes. Their quality still remains high for company of their sheer size though.

• Darren
  March 31st, 2007 at 2:35 pm

  This is neither here nor there, but that billboard is at least a year or two old. I live in Vancouver, and have a vague recollection of when it came out.

• nongeek
  March 31st, 2007 at 11:46 pm

  Akiro : not critisizing EA (great games!), but just not understanding a word (or null caracter) of this whole post

• jj
  April 1st, 2007 at 2:40 am

  didnt google have a billboard like those too

• Daniel
  April 1st, 2007 at 7:26 am

  in java, [0] can also be @^ aswell as null, so then it would read : now hiring at EACanada. if that makes more sense. even though [26] is the symbol for @ aswell. but thats just how i would read it…

• yayo
  April 1st, 2007 at 1:18 pm

  But it’s not l33t, it’s ascii

• The Slapster
  April 1st, 2007 at 9:25 pm

  Because “13375p34k” is only useful for proving what a giant waste of space an individual is, perhaps?

• Miss Cellania
  April 1st, 2007 at 9:40 pm

  I used “l33t” because its in the title of the linked article. He covers several kinds of geek languages used in ads: dingbats, ascii, C+, math, etc.

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