An idea I’ve had for quite awhile for a web site is one where people can upload photos of tech-related license plates.

One of the ones a friend of mine took was “MSN SUX” in San Francisco, CA.

I don’t think it would be too difficult to throw together a php script which will allow visitors to upload jpeg, however an approval process should be inplace to verify images are of tech-related plates. Also a brief description of when/where it was spotted would be interesting.

Some other plates I’ve seen around the valley are:

GREPROB (Linux Picnic 2004)

TCPDUMP (on 880 around 2002)

USEPERL (an old co-worker of mine, unfortunately his car was stolen, and he lost the plate)

LNUX (VA Software ticker symbol. This guy was driving a pimped out Lexus with gold trim and jewelry to match).

QAENGR (San Jose in 2003)

MSN SUX (Friend of mine spotted this one)

SYSLOGD (San Jose)

RENTNET (Hwy 101, dotcom days of 1999)

There was a somewhat lengthy discussion awhile back of tech plate sitings on the SVLUG mailing list.

Some others had spotted the following plates:

BOFH (motorcyle near SJCCC)

UNIX (shops near Portola Valley (by Hwy 280))

TCP IP (San Francisco’s City College)

I♥ROOT (near Cisco)

I♥LINUX

LINUX4U

More plates can be found here! Looks like someone already has a site going, not sure if you can upload though.