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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. Star Trek box sets by Short+Circuit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Every disc in every Star Trek box set has hidden special features on it, as menu options hidden in the artwork. These are usually cast and crew interviews, but I believe there were one or two bloopers.

    I discovered these by accident, and then spent hours finding and watching them.

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  2. Most Recent Favorite by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most recently, I was reading through the Supreme Commander game readme text and at down toward the end, it had a little section of trivia. Fun silly little facts like who of the development team certain units or areas were named after or that the Cybrans were originally named the recyclers. That last tidbit was rather enlightening as it help me understand their naming system where all cybran-related objects contain an 'r' for the second letter of the filename.

    C&C's dino level was kind of funny, though I don't remember if I've seen it or only heard of it anymore.

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  3. Easter egg run in Glasgow by Colin+Smith · · Score: 1, Interesting

    If you live in Glasgow, have a motorbike or even just want to watch or marshall, there will be something around 10,000 bikes riding through the city from about 12:00pm this Sunday, 8th of April.

    http://glasgoweggrun.mag-uk.org/

    An Easter egg is the required participation fee.

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  4. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries by linvir · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In that game, the menu concept is based around graphic representations of rooms, in which you click on things like computers and doors to access things. In one of the rooms, you could click on a light and it brought up a big group photo of the dev team, and each member had a little blurb which you could access by clicking their photo.

    Best of all, I first found it completely by accident rather than because of some howto on some website, making it all the more enjoyable.

  5. Linux Easter eggs? by LinuxGeek · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I haven heard of any opensource Easter eggs, well besides about:mozilla. Is there anything in Gnome, KDE, Openoffice or even less(1)?

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    1. Re:Linux Easter eggs? by JonJ · · Score: 2, Interesting

      $ aptitude moo and $ aptitude moo -v

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    2. Re:Linux Easter eggs? by Skater · · Score: 2, Interesting

      $ tar cf test.tar
      tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

    3. Re:Linux Easter eggs? by SNR+monkey · · Score: 1, Interesting

      In OpenOffice Calc, type
      =GAMES("StarWars")
      in a cell to play a little space invaders-like game. It works in in the windows version of Open Office, I haven't tried it in the Linux version.

    4. Re:Linux Easter eggs? by tim_mathews · · Score: 2, Interesting

      And if you do it twice in the same session, oocalc says "oh no, not again!".