Hey nerds!

Are there any EAN-13 and ITF-14 #barcodes that can be used for internal testing purposes without conflicting with actual products?

#scifi media often has characters with prominent #barcodes as tattoos or on uniforms/clothes as a symbol of dehumanization/commodification.

This feels sort of #retrofuturistic now-- a NFC device the size of a grain of rice, implanted or sewn in, serves the same purpose without being an obvious visual standout or requiring line-of-sight.

It doesn't give the same aesthetic, but maybe the Legion of Evil's soldiers could set off the shoplifting checkpoint at the bookstore instead.

Here's an Android app, written by a #Danish development team, which will identify #goods made in the #USA so that you can #boycott them, should you so wish.

It's called Made O'Meter.

You can scan #barcodes and more with it.

#Trump #Maga #Resist

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.i7evenaps.madeometer

Zhang et al. show that #plastome and nrDNA are effective super-#barcodes for spp. discrimination in Chimonocalamus and, with Skmer analysis for molecular identification, help ID cryptic new #species.

https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70027
@WileyEcolEvol

@WileyEcology
#systematics #DataScience #botany

Geeks Are Sexy: Barcodes Never Rocked This Hard: “Will It Riff?” Finds Out!. “From Heinz Ketchup to Red Solo Cups, Fire Dept. Coffee to Coppertone Sport Sunscreen, these heroes of heavy metal have turned your grocery aisle into a guitar solo. And if you are wondering, pretty much every barcode does actually riff, even sunscreen!”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/20/barcodes-never-rocked-this-hard-will-it-riff-finds-out-geeks-are-sexy/

Will it riff?

Clever idea: turn any random barcode into a guitar riff.

I want to do that with the barcode of every CD on my shelves. Especially the Heavy Metal ones.

https://boingboing.net/2025/08/19/will-it-riff-turns-product-barcodes-into-heavy-metal-jams.html

#music #guitar #barcodes

📰 | Von der #Barcode-Verschwörung zu den QR-#Heilcodes?

Was haben #Esoteriker und fundamentale #Christen mit #Barcodes und #QR-Codes zu tun? Mehr als man für möglich halten würde! Mehr dazu gibt's von Bernd im #SkeptixBlog - und von den 2 Bored Guys auf #Youtube!

https://skeptix.org/2025/08/05/von-der-barcode-verschwoerung-zu-den-qr-heilcodes/

#2BoredGuys

#Lazyweb: I have a list of scanned #UPC #barcodes, how can I pull the details on the item/product assigned to this UPC?

Think a box of #books or #CDs or #DVDs

I tried searching online, but my google-foo aka search-foo is failing me.

#python #technology #techsupport

Things I learned about barcodes and the Barcode Detection API - in which I looked at more barcodes than you'd think is healthy, and found some interesting facts and patterns, and wrote about them

https://soledadpenades.com/posts/2025/things-learned-barcodes-barcode-detection-api/

#javascript #barcodes #qrcodes