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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?"
Using a classic bit of social engineering and a photograph donated by a mutual, er, friend, we modified a directors web page at UUNET. If you click on just the right letter, it takes you to a photograph other than the one you would expect. I checked a few minutes ago, and it's still there....
1. Eeggs.com is good site for Easter Eggs in general.
2. You'll find a few web sites with Easter Eggs here.
How to Download YouTube Videos
I love n00b cam sites. The "egg" is that they don't always turn off directory browsing so you get to see images that they really didn't want you to see.
Not really hacking, but fun to spy around. Something like: http://pinksugar.net/cam/
Which might not having anything that she doesn't already have on the site.
Live web cams
Elmer Fudd Google
H4x0r g00g13
Swedish Chef Google
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
See, that's what the Anonymous Coward thing is for? To prevent people like you from being sued. Tell us about the lawsuit in a slashback, k?
*ahem*
Loooooooooooong time ago, in one of the sites I was working on, if you didn't have Javascript enabled it would just print "Hairy Moose Balls" instead of showing the rest of the site. It was a stupid testing thing, nothing serious. Of course, my boss ended up demoing the site to the client and the client didn't have JS enabled... Surprise!
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Check here
Look at the "sections" slashbox (usually to the left)
d ot.org/l ashdot.org/e lopers.slashdot.org/g /s lashdot.org/
http://apache.slashdot.org/
http://apple.slash
http://ask.slashdot.org/
http://books.s
http://bsd.slashdot.org/
http://dev
http://features.slashdot.or
http://interviews.slashdot.org/
http://radio.
etc.
DRM? No thanks, I'll just get it somewhere else...
I think this site is the most inaccurate, stupid, and mismanaged conglomerations of crap out there. Sure, there are a lot of cool and verifiable eggs on site that you will not find anywhere else, but if you actually take a minute to sit down and look closely at the content, you will see that it is often inaccurate and incomplete.
The site maintainers need to set up a system that is more rigid and structured for defining what an egg is and in what manner it gets posted. If you look at most eggs, they are lacking in many important details, such as:
What the egg is.
Exactly how to reproduce the egg.
What hardware/software versions does it work on?
Many of the eggs on the site are simply not eggs. Read the comments in the following egg to see how many people show the egg to be false, but yet the non-egg continue to stay posted:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/16200.html
The webmaster even admits it for this one:
http://www.eeggs.com/items/22634.html
Here is the same exact egg, listed twice (also try reading the comments for some highly intellectual discussion):
http://www.eeggs.com/tree/1243.html
I think the site sucks, because it doing a less than half-ass job. It's not worth doing if you're not going to at least _try_ to do it right.
(without the leading slash, your link was going to the wrong place on our static .shtml page... we've gotten a ton of 404s in our error log :)
Oh, and don't forget the other easter egg, /comments.pl?op=user_created_index