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An Easter (Egg) Holiday?

Posted by Cliff on from the hippity-hoppity dept.

updog asks: "With Easter just around the corner, what better way for folks to celebrate than finding their own Easter Egg? While many people have seen the classic Excel Flight Simulator, there are over 10,000 other Easter Eggs found in DVD's, books, and music — for example, there are over 8 eggs on the Futurama DVD; and some hidden emoticons in Skype. What are some of your favorite Easter Eggs?"

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  1. Karateka for the Apple II by Kymermosst · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you booted the disk upside-down, the game ran with the graphics upside-down.

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    1. Re:Karateka for the Apple II by KeiserSoze · · Score: 5, Funny

      This shouldn't be considered an easter egg - it was developed solely for the Australian market. Really.

  2. "Over 8 eggs"? by GroeFaZ · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is this just a fancy way of saying "9" or does the submitter simply love the word "over", placing it in grammatically correct but semantically nonsensical positions?

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  3. My favorite thing by VincenzoRomano · · Score: 2, Funny

    The good ol' blue screen of death in Windows.
    There was a number of ways to have it showing out. In Vista they have changed the colour.

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    1. Re:My favorite thing by FredDC · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's not an easter egg... Easter eggs are supposed to be hard to find!

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  4. The number of eggs is actually quite high by AEton · · Score: 3, Funny

    According to sources, it's over nine thousand.

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    1. Re:The number of eggs is actually quite high by xtracto · · Score: 2, Funny

      I only have two myself =o(

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  5. Today by SleepyHappyDoc · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's Good Friday today...any apps with hidden deicide?

    *ducks*

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  6. shrubbery by turbopunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    When ask.com was actually new, you could ask it "What is the average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?", and it would reply with "What do you mean, African or European?" I always got a kick out of that.