Hello World in 1024 characters In exactly 1024 characters, no more, no less: 


Must print Hello World. 
Must not use unnecessary whitespace. 
Must not use comments. 


Judging should favor creativity and/or humor over simple obfuscation when voting up answers.



The earliest I will select an answer is the 11th (Sunday) of November (2012). I'm seeing some awesome entries so far, can't wait to see what else people come up with.
C# (and without “Hello World” anywhere)

Code-golfed, so that obviously no unnecessary whitespace is used:

using System;using System.IO.Compression;using System.Runtime.Serialization;using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;using System.Linq;using System.Net;using System.Text.RegularExpressions;class C{static void Main(){var g=WebRequest.Create("https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/questions/8859?site=codegolf&amp;filter=withbody");var r=(HttpWebResponse)g.GetResponse();if(r.StatusCode==HttpStatusCode.OK){var s=r.GetResponseStream();foreach(var a in r.ContentEncoding.ToLowerInvariant().Split(',').Reverse())switch(a){case"gzip":s=new GZipStream(s,CompressionMode.Decompress);break;case"deflate":s=new DeflateStream(s,CompressionMode.Decompress);break;default:throw new InvalidOperationException();}var d=new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(R));var q=(R)d.ReadObject(s);var e=new Regex("&lt;code&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/code&gt;");var m=e.Match(q.I[0].B);Console.WriteLine(m.Groups[1].Value);}}}[DataContract]public class R{[DataMember(Name="items")]public I[]I{get;set;}}[DataContract]public class I{[DataMember(Name="body")]public string B{get;set;}}


Formatted for readability:

using System;
using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Json;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

class C
{
    static void Main()
    {
        var g = WebRequest.Create("https://api.stackexchange.com/2.1/questions/8859?site=codegolf&amp;filter=withbody");
        var r = (HttpWebResponse)g.GetResponse();
        if (r.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
        {
            var s=r.GetResponseStream();
            foreach (var a in r.ContentEncoding.ToLowerInvariant().Split(',').Reverse())
            switch(a)
            {
                case "gzip":
                    s = new GZipStream(s,CompressionMode.Decompress);
                    break;
                case "deflate":
                    s = new DeflateStream(s,CompressionMode.Decompress);
                    break;
                default:
                    throw new InvalidOperationException();
            }
            var d = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(R));
            var q = (R)d.ReadObject(s);
            var e = new Regex("&lt;code&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;/code&gt;");
            var m = e.Match(q.I[0].B);
            Console.WriteLine(m.Groups[1].Value);
        }
    }
}

[DataContract]
public class R
{
    [DataMember(Name="items")]
    public I[] I { get; set; }
}

[DataContract]
public class I
{
    [DataMember(Name="body")]
    public string B { get; set; }
}


The program retrieves this question from Code Golf using Stack Exchange API, finds the first piece of text formatted as code (which, in case of this question, is the “Hello World” text), and prints it out.