Friday, June 17, 2011

RIP Alan Haberman, or “Symbolic Death”


Alan Haberman, inventor of the UPC bar code, has died at the age of 81.  Before being brought to the morgue, his body needed to be held over a laser scanner before being placed in the bagging area.

At his funeral, he will be honored with a 21-beep salute.

His pallbearers will need to pass his coffin over a scanner several times before it registers that he is really dead.

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