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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. Homestar Runner by Garrett+Fox · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about the entire site of Homestar Runner? The various games and cartoons there are loaded with Easter Egg features, which get cataloged obsessively here.

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  2. Rise of the Triad by CastrTroy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Rise of the Triad had tons of easter eggs, Including different loading screens for christmas, new years, 4th of july, and a couple others I'm probably forgetting, possibly Easter. There was also a ton of cheat codes you could type in. That was one of the best games of it's time, with tons of extra content and really interesting gameplay. I don't know why it didn't get more recognition.

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    1. Re:Rise of the Triad by SilentOneNCW · · Score: 2, Informative

      It was mentioned on this Games For Windows podcast in their latest episode. Check it out. http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3148397

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  3. Re:Linux Easter eggs? by ISayWeOnlyToBePolite · · Score: 3, Informative

    $ apt-get moo

  4. Re:Linux Easter eggs? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    For those not on debian or its derivatives, I will spoil it.

    $ aptitude moo
    There are no Easter Eggs in this program.

    $ aptitude -v moo
    There really are no Easter Eggs in this program.

    $ aptitude -vv moo
    Didn't I already tell you that there are no Easter Eggs in this program?

    $ aptitude -vvv moo
    Stop it!

    $ aptitude -vvvv moo
    Okay, okay, if I give you an Easter Egg, will you go away?

    $ aptitude -vvvvv moo
    All right, you win.
    Slashdot will not allow me to display the ASCII art, its a rather crude drawing of 2 paralell lines with a 2 tiered hump in the middle.

    $ aptitude -vvvvvv moo
    What is it? It's an elephant being eaten by a snake, of course.
    Adding more v's doesn't appear to change the output any further.
  5. Re:Linux Easter eggs? by SNR+monkey · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not surprised since I accidentally told you the wrong function. You should probably try
    =GAME("StarWars")
    I thought it was GAMES, but I was mistaken. Does it work properly in FC or Ubuntu with the correct function? If it doesn't, I'm going to look like a troll, but I swear it works for me. =)