Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for September 25, 2018

Got QR codes?

If you scan the codes with your phone, they direct you to an entry on Wikipedia about the 8th century King of Mercia, Aethelbald.

Those are codes? I thought those things were printing accidents.

It just goes to the main English Wikipedia page, which just happens to be about him now.

I hope he got a good picture with his æthelbald camera, though. :-)

That is one heckuva branding iron.

Gateway’s first attempt at shipping PCs was not a successful as once thought. Omaha steaks on the other hand…….

Cow Abduction has reached a whole new level.

You’ve been targeted.

It’s for informational purposes only. (I wonder if they had to agree to the EUA?)

The flat code messes with the sense of depth on the cows. These must be where flat iron steaks come from.

The outcome is cownter-productive.

Numbers people! Sometimes the image doesn’t scan…

It is the only way to comply with the country of origin labeling requirements.

We’re next! Image one of those things on your forehead.

Aethelbard?

Well, it beats an ear tag.

but can’t exactly be worse, either, all things considered.

The QR code leads to Wikipedia’s home page.Cool.

I hear that in New England, they’re putting baa codes on sheep…and in Africa, they’re putting zebra codes on zebras.