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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?"

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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. 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. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Re:Linux Easter eggs? by ISayWeOnlyToBePolite · · Score: 3, Informative

    $ apt-get moo

  8. 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.

  9. 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. =)