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Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises
the_insult_dog writes "Computerworld has an article up (with videos) about some of the coolest Easter eggs and other software surprises, ranging from full-featured games to strange messages from robots. What other eggs are out there? What's the coolest egg ever?"
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The Reese's peanut butter egg.
With the deviled egg tied for a close second with eggs benedict.
How do you make the fucking fish go away?!!?
Faberge: best Easter eggs ever. Thought everyone knew that.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
I once (and only once) added an easter egg to a program I was working on. It was called "Bullfrog", and was a government system for scanning the radio spectrum for signals and tuning in to whatever you found. On a dialog I was working on, one of the requirements was to have a "bouncing ball" that shows you what frequency you're at as you scan. There was also a little history snapshot dialog that you could turn on or off. If you clicked the button to turn the snapshot dialog on/off precisely 42 times, the bouncing ball would turn into a hopping frog. Only took a few minutes to code, so why not? :)
I can't help but wonder if anyone ever ran into that... ;)
I believe Bird-Person can arrange that.
My favorite was when I was running Visual Studio inside a Virtual PC environment. I was doing some PDA programming and was going to deploy it to the PDA/Phone emulator in Visual Studio. Apparently there's a problem (hard to believe) running a virtual environment inside a virtual environment. When trying to run it, it threw a visual studio exception followed by the message "You just had to try it didn't you".
I'm a satanic clam.
You're missing little, trust me.
That was the lamest list of "easter egg's" I've ever seen. Most of them were minor apps in Ubuntu that just aren't well known. Then there's the telnet of the ASCII star wars movie, hardly an easter egg.
What happened to the famed Excel flight-sim? Or any number or other great jokes.
Not to mention the gratuitous use of shitty videos with the worst narrator in history, who incidentally swallowed the microphone before starting...
The truth shall always be free: Boris Floricic is Tron.
I'm glad that at least one free OS comes with super-cool games installed by default.
If it only had a text editor...
Besides, "up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right" only gets you back where you started, so that part's not necessary;)
That's no egg, it's a space station!
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