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CARTOONS IN NANO-SPACE!
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ENGINEERS SECRETLY ETCH CHARACTERS ONTO MICROCHIPS
Michael Davidson was peering through his microscope at the tiny landscape of a
silicon microchip when he saw it: a boy's face nestled among the millions of tiny
transistors. And he could swear the boy was smiling.
He closed his eyes, opened them again and pumped up the magnification.
No, he wasn't imagining things. It was Waldo -- the elusive hero of the ``Where's
Waldo?'' children's book series -- his familiar smirk a tiny fraction of the width of a
human hair.
Although he didn't know it at the time, Davidson had stumbled onto the Lascaux Cave of
the computer industry: a secret cache of microscopic doodles buried inside computer
chips around the globe and known only to the small priesthood of bunny-suited
engineers and technicians who created them.
Since uncovering Waldo three years ago, he's spotted dozens of other doodles: cartoon
legends such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Dilbert; film stars such as Groucho
Marx; and a barnyard of mustangs, pit vipers and longhorn steers.
Who created these fantastic images and why? Davidson found out in the fall when he
created an online gallery of microscopic Monets called THE SILICON ZOO.
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