ATD: "against the day"

[Joe Allonby]

Thank you for that correction. So he COULD embed a message in the ISBN. That
damend post horn just keeps popping up.

On 7/21/06, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> nope, the publisher assisgns the ISBN according to certain rules--digits
> correspond to country of publication, e.g.
>
> by the way the X in the ISBN represents the number 10
> rich
>
>
> On 7/21/06, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I thought that Library of Congress assigned the ISBN.
> >
> > I don't think that it's like a vanity plate where you can choose your
> > own.
> >
> > On 7/21/06, Dave Monroe < monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Now we're down on the ISBN number, even?  Man ...
> > >
> > > --- Tim Strzechowski < dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Has no one noticed, yet, the interesting binary
> > > > sequence within the new book's ISBN number?
> > > >
> > > > 159420120X
> > > >
> > > > I wonder why the five is the second digit.  And how
> > > > curious:  420.  What a  stoner P is!
> > >
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