>Someone said:
>> What if it were a Zerohm(tm) "resistor"?
>
>Someone else replied:
>> I think I saw one of those a while ago sitting in a bath of liquid helium.
>> How do you connect it to the PIC?
>
>A third person raised the stakes
>I acquired a box of zero ohm resistors from an engineering lab clearance at
>my previous job.  I'd seen some before with just a single black band, but
>these ones are marked black-black-black-silver.  Unfortunately they seem to
>be defective; they don't come anywhere close to meeting the specified
>tolerance.

And I chipped in:
We used to use them as current limiting resisters for our Darkness Emitting
Arsenide Diodes.  D.E.A.D. diodes are like LEDs, except that they emit
darkness when you put a voltage across them.