Daisy, Daisy...

It is on this date that HAL, the deviant computer in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey — based on the same-titled book by Arthur C. Clarke — becomes operational. (In the movie the year is 1992; in the novel and screenplay it is given as 1997). A rumor, hotly denied by Mr. Clarke, was that the computer was so named because it played on the acronym IBM: H – A – L preceding I – B – M by one letter, indicating that HAL was one step ahead of International Business Machines.

Whatever the truth is this HAL Fitted T-Shirt, with its design most definitely spoofing the IBM logo, is pretty nice. It's from the CafePress.com Movierama shop.

Open the pod bay doors!

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