Help with this code

Logolotta

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Help me decode this, my friend put this in his info:

"01010011011011100101011001110101010110100111100101000010010100100110010001101110010001010110011101010001011011010100011001111001010010010100010101011010011010000101100101101101011100000011011001100010011011010100010101100111010100100110110100110101011100110100100101000101011001000110100101001001010001010110010000110001011000110110100101000010010000110101101000110011010101100111100101011010010101000011100000111101"

When i converted the binary to text it didnt make sense:
"SnVuZyBRdnEgQmFyIEZhYmp6bmEgRm5sIEdiIEd1ciBCZ3VyZT8="

So I inverted the 0's and the 1's and the binary to text translation of that was:
"¬‘©Š¥†½­›‘º˜®’¹†¶º¥—¦’?É?’º˜­’ÊŒ¶º›–¶º›Îœ–½¼¥Ì©†¥«ÇÂ"

Now this makes sense...This is ASCII...HTML decodes the ASCII as"
"¬ ? © ? ¥ ? ½ ­ ? ? º ? ® ? ¹ ? ¶ º ¥ ? ¦ ? É ? º ? ­ ? Ê ? ¶ º ? ? ¶ º ? Î ? ? ½ ¼ ¥ Ì © ? ¥ « Ç Â "

For the life of me I can't figure this out... I couldnt see any patterns in these characters. Stumped! Any ideas?? If you can figure this out post it! And let me know how you figured it out.
 

Logolotta

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this forum actually converted the ASCII to the characters but the binary translation was in ASCII format, for example:

& # 1 7 2;
& # 8 2 1 6;
& # 1 6 9;
& # 3 5 2;
& # 1 6 5;
& # 8 2 2 4;
& # 1 8 9;
& # 1 7 3;
& # 8 2 5 0;
& # 8 2 1 6;
& # 1 8 6;

I added spaces in between the characters so this forum post wouldnt decode it to the ACCII characters it did above. Anyway, you get the point.
 

xtknight

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took me 10 seconds (no I haven't done these things before). the = at the end of the binary->text is a tip-off that it's base64 encoding. then I googled base64 output, saw some stuff related to rot13. found rot13 converter, pasted it there.

binary->text, base64 decoder, and feed that in to rot13.

binary->text dec: SnVuZyBRdnEgQmFyIEZhYmp6bmEgRm5sIEdiIEd1ciBCZ3VyZT8=
base 64 dec: Jung Qvq Bar Fabjzna Fnl Gb Gur Bgure?
rot 13 dec: What Did One Snowman Say To The Other?