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Easter Eggs in Web Sites?
cwikla asks: "Back in the .COM days, I worked at eGroups, now owned by a larger Company. During my time I added a couple of easter eggs to the site, which I was reminded of while watching Being John Malkovich this weekend. I checked, and ones sort of still there. If you append malkovich=1 to a message URL it would turn the message into 'malkovich' mode. It sort of still works, but over time I guess the code has been a changin' so it's kind of spotty. Oh, there are others that still are in there, but where's the fun of telling all the secrets? Any other folks done anything equivalent, especially on mainstream sites?"
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Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
Malkovich,
Thas was a cool egg.
Malkovich
At the College of Business site I develop for, we used to use a picture of Yoda to scare the folks who wouldn't let us take their pictures. Seems as though most of them prefer a picture of themselves (no matter how horrible they may think it is) to one of Yoda attached to their bios.
In any case, changing the bio's email tag to "yoda" gives the visitor Yoda's (short) bio. There are a few others, but seeing as how nobody has found any of them yet, we gave up on adding them for our own amusement.
-Gabe
No extra pictures of people's flesh melting from their bones, though.
The last company I was at used all web-based customer management tools. If you searched for something like "I like banannas" it forwarded you to a java based tetris game.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
that all those pr0n pop-ups and pop-unders WEREN'T easter eggs?!?!
I consider http://apple.slashdot.org/ to be an egg... a lot of people don't know about it.
Funny, all I got was an alert, "This document contains no data."
I thought this was well known. Apparantley it hadnt propigated to the proper people yet, so I will let everyone in.
Websites have always had little secret links and the such. Just about every major website, like yahoo or espn has had these secret links. Generally you can find these little Eggs if you look closely enough. THe most common one is in the bottom right corner, usually its a slightly changed color of the background, in the shape of a capital Pi. Lots of times when you click on that you can be put into the backend of a majority of websites.
pogmeister
Fortunately, the rest of the world can't see what a goof he is! :)
4-bit adder: A snake made of 1's and 0's
Here's one you can find on slashdot: If your comment consists entirely of "First Post", you get modded down to -1.
Go on to http://www.ask.com and ask Jeeves if he's gay :-)
This used to result in a funny error message something like:
"Server Error 505 - None of your business".
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
goodness... Cliff man: you remember enough from that (bad) movie that vividly to talk about it?
there are newer movies much more worthy of rememberance, ya know...
My life in the land of the rising sun.
For "Security" on a friends site he has it redirect to goatse.cx if you try to change strings.
I learned my lesson. I don't try to fuck with his site anymore.
sounds like it works!
I swear my server doesn't have easter eggs, but that doesn't stop some people from trying:
/scripts/..%255c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c +dir HTTP/1.0" /_vti_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/sys tem32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" /_mem_bin/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c../winnt/sys tem32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" /msadc/..%255c../..%255c../..%255c/..%c1%1c../..% c1%1c../..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0"
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When I Decided to leave Comcast@Home I put my resume in the template source code as comments.
.. no crank calls .. even for having my phone number out there 'obtainable' as it were.
[Just in case I needed to prove to potential employers that I was what I said I was.]
It was there for about 3 months before someone caught it.
Oddly enough
--Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum, non erravi pernicose!
(2,3-Benzopyrrole)
psstt... what's the url? I promise i won't tell anybody else!
A friend of mine who knew our high school's webmaster showed me an easter egg they put in. You go to this page http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/Schools/High/Manual /va/VAstinfo.htm and click on the lips of Leonardo Rivera's picture and you get a funny page about dead clowns. I graduated about 4 years ago, so it's been up at least as long as that.
HP Scanjet playing Ode to Joy...
http://www.eeggs.com/items/557.html
From an episode of Farscape (paraphrased):
:)
Chrichton (human): OK now count, one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi...
Dargo (big alien with tentacles): One Mippippippi, two Mippippippi, three Mippippippi...
At the ecommerce company I worked for, Zoovy, I wrote the shopping cart system used by a few hundred merchants. I wanted to make a completely innocuous egg since it would be used on stores selling everyting from dildos to bibles. If the merchant turns on international orders (so the state selection in checkout turns into a box instead of a dropdown), and you type in Mippippippi, it corrects it to Mississippi. I know, I know, boring...
Error: PANTS NOT FOUND. Press <F1> to continue.
I'd hardly call functional testing easter egg. And people don't usually leave their test cases in the final release.
My grammer was a nice old lady, leave her out of this!
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Oh yeah, when Eudora moved to adware mode and went public beta, me and a guy from tech support put in some ads of our own (accessible only to a small range of IPs, though). We had a Russian brides one, some personal lube ads, Gary Coleman, the usual. We used most of them for testing during the private beta, but one we did add was a picture of a former VP who played a large part in causing the ruination of the Eudora group. It wasn't a flattering ad, and predictably it didn't rotate for very long, but it got seen.
Ahh, the memories...
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
One of the sites that I wrote about 7 years ago included this HTTP header line in every response it sent out:
X-Urban-Legend: There's lots of hidden information in HTTP headers.
Is Jeeves Gay?
Will You F*** Me?
BTW: The "Is Jeeves Well Hung" no longer seems to be working.
Slashdot: rejecting tech news in favor of rubber band guns since 1997.
My egg consisted of a weird picture of a squirrel that my dad had sent to me. It would come up in the content section of the (now-defunct) site whenever someone typed a common curse word in the search text box. There was a little caption that said "Sammy the Squirrel says: Saying dirty words is just nuts!"
Don't ask. I was just bored that day.
In Soviet Russia, Chuck Norris will still kick your ass.
Loved the 404 at http://www.sweweb.net/
Try http://www.sweweb.net/garbage.html for instance.
Article here
How typical of a guy to be unable to find it. ;)
-Sara
Click the red X on this map... Map Egg
When your BSD-related story gets submitted and approved, "BSD is dying" posts suddenly appear.
Moral: don't jack with others' resources.
Click here or here.
Now lets see Mikeysoft's whois.... Now this one is FUNNY.
IP Address: 202.182.69.39
X YTECH.NET
O M
O N.COM
H IT.NET
. EXEGETE.NET
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.CRASH.IN.6MN.ORG
IP Address: 62.4.22.195
Registrar: GANDI
Whois Server: whois.gandi.net
Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.WILL.BE.BEATEN.WITH.MY.SPANNER.NET
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.TONY.HAS.SEXUAL.IN.ADEQUACY.ORG
IP Address: 216.254.38.242
Registrar: MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAMES WORLDWIDE
Whois Server: whois.melbourneit.com
Referral URL: http://www.melbourneit.com
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.SUX.BUT.PYROFREAK.ORG.RULEZ.AND.DIO
IP Address: 207.236.217.177
Registrar: GANDI
Whois Server: whois.gandi.net
Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.SHOULD.GIVE.UP.BECAUSE.LINUXISGOD.C
IP Address: 65.160.248.13
Registrar: G.K. GROUP, L.L.C.
Whois Server: whois.gkg.net
Referral URL: http://www.gkg.net
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.RAWKZ.MUH.WERLD.MENTALFLOSS.CA
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.OWNED.BY.MAT.HACKSWARE.COM
IP Address: 211.63.57.1
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.MUST.STOP.TAKEDRUGS.ORG
IP Address: 12.5.4.8
Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.register.com
Referral URL: http://www.register.com
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SOON.GOING.TO.THE.DEATHCORPORATI
IP Address: 62.92.244.245
Registrar: G.K. GROUP, L.L.C.
Whois Server: whois.gkg.net
Referral URL: http://www.gkg.net
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.IS.NOT.SEXYCOOL.ORG
IP Address: 62.4.18.24
Registrar: GANDI
Whois Server: whois.gandi.net
Referral URL: http://www.gandi.net
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.IS.A.STEAMING.HEAP.OF.FUCKING-BULLS
IP Address: 63.99.165.11
Registrar: THE NAME IT CORPORATION DBA AITDOMAINS.COM
Whois Server: whois.aitdomains.com
Referral URL: http://www.aitdomains.com
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.ITS.OWN.CRACKLAB.COM
IP Address: 209.26.95.44
Registrar: DOTSTER, INC.
Whois Server: whois.dotster.com
Referral URL: http://www.dotster.com/help/whois
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.HACKED.BY.HACKSWARE.COM
IP Address: 211.63.57.62
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.FILLS.ME.WITH.BELLIGERENCE.NET
IP Address: 130.58.82.232
Registrar: CRONON AG BERLIN, NIEDERLASSUNG REGENSBURG
Whois Server: whois.tmagnic.net
Referral URL: http://nsi-robo.tmag.de
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.EMPLOYEES.CANT.GET.SHAGZ.ORG
IP Address: 198.142.141.98
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.AND.MINDSUCK.BOTH.SUCK.HUGE.ONES.AT
IP Address: 63.241.136.53
Registrar: DOTSTER, INC.
Whois Server: whois.dotster.com
Referral URL: http://www.dotster.com/help/whois
Server Name: MICROSOFT.COM.AINT.WORTH.SHIT.KLUGE.ORG
IP Address: 216.181.127.195
Registrar: THE NAME IT CORPORATION DBA AITDOMAINS.COM
Whois Server: whois.aitdomains.com
Referral URL: http://www.aitdomains.com
When I was working at the Technical University of Vienna, I got to know the admin who showed me a funny easteregg he implemented on
www.prip.tuwien.ac.at
find the invisible link!
HINT:
check the upper part of the image
Miko O'Sullivan
Heh I love pranks like that.
:P) I downloaded a CNN Health page and wrote up a fictional health warning about the 'Microwave Virus'. Heh It was a silly idea: A virus floats around people's machines and increases the power of UV guns in your monitor by 400%. Eventually it burns out some of the shielding and exposes people to radiation. Common symptoms included drowsiness, irritability, and other stuff you typically feel at work.
:)
My company asked me to put a demo of our technology up on our website. So I created a blank web page with a windows error message in the center that read: "The radiation shielding on your monitor has failed, please do not sit directly in front of your computer."
Then, I did something really sneaky: Using FrontPage (there really is a use for it
I renamed my computer on the network to 'www.cnn-news.com' and set up MS's Personal Web server on my computer to host that fake web page I created. Except for the domain, the URL looked exactly like one of CNN's pages. I even corrected all the links to go to other areas of CNN's site. (It seems like a lot of trouble, but like I said, FrontPage made it real easy.) Of course, I sent out a 'virus advisory'.... Anybody on our network was able to visit 'www.cnn-news.com' (with the address stuff at the end) to hit that page.
So what happened was first a few people opened my message about the new demo, and they got the 'Radiation Shielding has Failed' message. They ignored that (they work too hard), then they read my advisory of the 'Microwave Virus' and put the two together.
When I got to work, several of the women in the office were standing around asking each other if they should go to their doctor. The System Administrator about died laughing when I let him on it. (He had to put up with strange questions about radiation shielding all morning. Heh.)
Not sure if that quite qualifies as an easter egg, but a fun story nonetheless.
I actually hit this one on my own and was pretty
amused. The guys who'd introduced me to the site
had been reading it for a while and hadn't come
across it.
Go to http://www.boortz.com/ and line up your
mouse right over the forehead of the Neal (the
big smiling guy) in the Nealz Nuze box. Clicking
will take you to an animated gif.
Disengage autopilot and at the same time toggle "L BUS TIE" on the electrical control panel.
Immediately afterwards toggle "PRIMARY EXT PWR" to ON then back to AVAIL (also on the electrical control panel).
Within 3 seconds of the above, switch right hand windscreen wiper ON.
Turn left hand windscreen wiper ON.
Turn left hand windscreen wiper OFF.
Finally, turn the right hand windscreen wiper OFF.
The plane will do a loop-the-loop.
Scroll down until you see the characters in the yellow box with the grid. Click "help?" and you will get a popup window outlining some help junk, disregard that.
Click "Listen To These Characters" and it will load a wav file that tells you the characters...
Now go back, and copy the address of that link. It 'll look something like:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/wv_web/[blah blah blah]/secret.wav
Add a letter into the blahblahblah section, and load that file :-)
I won't spoil your fun.
-braxton
For a company on its way out, this is still amusing....
If you Ask Jeeves,
"what is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
then he will ask you the proper question in response, and you can click on it to see where the hell this quote comes from.
omfg, at work sometime last week, i had these two asian men come into the store, and i approached them, said "How are you gentlemen?"
They both responded, almost in perfect time "All your base are belong to us!"
"Champagne for my real friends - and real pain for my sham friends!" http://ericblade.postalboard.com/
It says: "Enter username for NSA_MaxSecZone at warez.slashdot.org"
Please, what it the password, quick, before they find me in here.. I realy shouldn't be using the production servers to read /.
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln80~Psnlbx]16isb572CCB9AE9DB03273snlbxq' |dc
Awesome prank. Remember that "Bill Gates will send you $1000 if you forward this..." email that was sent around extensively a few years ago? My friend sent it to me and everyone he knew one day, because he claimed "It was worth his time just in case it was true."
I modified my header information and sent him a nice form letter thanking him for participating in Microsoft's email tracking software beta and told him to send a self addressed stamped envelope to Microsoft so he could get his $1000 check. I gave him an address and a confirmation number, too. I didn't tell him about it for 2 years and finally one day he brought the subject up. The sucker had sent the self addressed stamped envelope and Microsoft just sent it back to him. He said he figured "it was worth the 66 cents in case it was true". haha.
OddManIn: A Game of guns and game theory.
(Up, Down, Left, Right being the arrow keys... No start key, so we had to go with return).
What do you mean no start key? Theres an entire *piece*of*screen* designated for that purpose!