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That Trippy Green Code in ‘The Matrix’ Is Just a Bunch of Sushi Recipes 

Mystery solved!

The first few minutes of The Matrix (1999) are ominous and disorienting: a torrent of lime-green characters trickle down and then jam the frame. From afar, it looks like utterly indecipherable code; If you peer closely, however you'll be able to discern that it's a jumble of Japanese characters: hiragana, katakana, and kanji.

The Wachowskis, who directed the movie, have opened every subsequent film within the Matrix franchise with this sequence. You could even consider the green techno-rain the series' defining imagistic attribute.

For those of us who've found it impossible to get a handle on what, exactly, is gushing onto the screen, though, I've got news: As it turns out, we've been played.

The man behind the code is Simon Whiteley, who worked as a production designer on the film. In an interview with CNet last Thursday, Whiteley revealed that the source of that mystifying code was none other than a batch of his Japanese wife's cookbooks—and the sushi recipes he found within them.

"I like to tell everybody that The Matrix's code is made out of Japanese sushi recipes," Whiteley, who's also lent his design talents to Babe (1995) and The Lego Movie (2014), told the publication. "Without that code, there is no Matrix."

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Here's What Koenigsegg Learned From Its Record 278 MPH Nevada Speed Run

Here’s more from Koenigsegg speaking to Driving:

“We were just about finished building his car, and he said ‘I want to see how fast this goes.’ Well, we don’t have a track long enough to do that; I told him any test track is too short, you’d have to shut down a whole road. And he managed to do that.

“So when we heard he had achieved that, we thought we’d better help out, because it’s uncharted territory, and it’s dangerous. We’ve never even driven that fast, so we wanted to be part of it, analyze it, and make sure it was done as safely as possible and that we got as much data out of it as possible.”

Koenigsegg said the company has since been able to introduce a new aerodynamic setting that tunes the ride height, wing angle, shock absorbers and other active aerodynamic features of the car for driving at the limit based on the real-world information it now has. You know, just in case you ever find yourself nearing 280 mph again.

Koenigsegg also said the 1,160 horsepower 5.0-liter twin-turbo V8 Agera RS could go faster with a change to the rev-limiter after the factory driver behind the record-setting car reached it on one of the runs. The car hit a reported max speed of 284.3 mph.

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