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Yep, that was a joke. Should have had <sarcasm> tags around it.

It has to be an image, how else would they ensure that it shows up in Comic Sans in all browsers?

Yes. A good team will recognize that your love for programming means you'll improve rapidly, especially in an environment with constructive feedback from tolerant team members. And if you have other professional experience you can bring to bear (knowing how to work in a team, process & planning, customer support) the find a team that needs someone with that experience as well as programming ability.

If you can't find anyone willing to hire you because of your lack of professional experience, find a team you like and offer to work for them for free for three months. If you show promise, and you get along with the team, they'll want to hire you when the three months are up. And if not, you'll get feedback on your skills and learn what kind of teams to look for in the future.

macports. :P

It's Latin-1 encoded and then URL-encoded:

>>> import urllib

>>> print urllib.unquote('%1B%E7%F4%9D').decode('latin-1')

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Only a matter of time before someone writes a service hook for automatic 3-D printing of a model after each push....

That or Thingiverse integration.