From one reader, speaking for many:

Regarding your Corner post on that breathless MyBarackObama “Patriot Day” event:
Check out the number of people saying they’ll attend:
> OTHER SIGNUPS
> 2147485501 people have signed up to attend this event.
That’s 2.1 billion people. I have a feeling somebody (or a lot of people) messed around with the “Number of attendees total” field when replying to this.
Funny, anyway.

How dare you suggest that 2.1 billion Americans aren’t going to support Barack Obama? Have you even bothered to count up all the dead Chicagoans Axelrod has lined up?

Update: from another reader:

Jonah – I’m sure you have enough computer-savvy readers that you already know this, but just in case: computers store values as binary numbers of a certain length. For signed numbers, one bit is reserved to indicate negativity. So in a standard 32-bit signed integer, the largest value that can be represented is 2 to the 31st power – or 2.14 blah blah billion.
So anytime you see a value near this, it indicates some kind of PROGRAMMING error. As a programmer myself, I’m highly sympathetic – but it is another strange exception (like that stupid public “flag” e-mail seemingly designed to attract abuse) to the CW that this WH is particularly “tech-savvy”.

More lies. Obama is the One. The One is Neo. Neo knows all about computers.

Update III: From another reader:

Jonah,
I also work in the IT industry, and I would have agreed with your 2nd email posted if the number hadn’t changed. Or rather I would have if it hadn’t changed again. When I looked it was over 11 Billion which is not a number that is able to be represented in 32 bits. I’m changing my vote from the 2nd email back to the first. I guess it not only includes illegal aliens, but also actual aliens.