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An Easter (Egg) Holiday?
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?"
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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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.
Demented But Determined.
If you booted the disk upside-down, the game ran with the graphics upside-down.
"Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.
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?
The grass is always greener on the other side of the light cone.
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.
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
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.
Revive the Constitution.
According to sources, it's over nine thousand.
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
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.
I haven heard of any opensource Easter eggs, well besides about:mozilla. Is there anything in Gnome, KDE, Openoffice or even less(1)?
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
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.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
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.