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Best Easter Eggs and Other Software Surprises

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-b-a-select-start dept.

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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  1. oh brother..... by eggoeater · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's the coolest egg ever?
    Phrase your answer in the form of a tweet. "OMG gt2B SWbxSET3".

    What is this? Tweeny-Cutie magazine?
    I enjoy a fun easter-egg but this is asinine.

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  2. Videos? by Bigbutt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Jeeze, can't we do stuff without videos any more?

    Blocked at work.

    [John]

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    1. Re:Videos? by Bigbutt · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I understand the office policy. Videos are a bit of a bandwidth hog. I have a problem with using videos to pass along something that could have just as easily (and better) been done as text with a few pictures.

      Just because you can afford a $300,000, 3,500 sq ft house doesn't mean you should buy one.

      [John]

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  3. Nice to know. by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That a lot of open source apps have a bunch of extra undocumented code that could be possible security vulnerability.

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  4. Re:this is a spam submission by bobdehnhardt · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not only that, it was a lame "feature." Three of the eeggs weren't even eeggs - one was a telnet site, one was a documented app feature, and one was a documented OS utility.

    ddate really showed how lazy there were. 10 seconds in my browser and I had a full definition of what a Discordian date is. Including what YOLD means.

    And someone got paid to put that "feature" together? Crap....

  5. Re:This guy is a ComputerWorld editor? by Jason+Earl · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought I was going to die when he kept retyping (slowly)

    aptitude -v moo

    instead of just hitting the up arrow on his keyboard. What's worse, he missed a part of the Easter egg. You get another bit of text if you -vvvvvv or more.

    Somehow it didn't stop me from watching all of the videos though.

  6. Don't delude yourself. by Eevee · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lots of closed-source apps have a bunch of extra undocumented code that could be possible security vulnerabilities.

  7. Re:telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl by Hurricane78 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As another poster noted: Go to South America and say you are American. They will say "Well, I'm American too. South American."
    They in fact would call you "United Statians".

    Point is: You chose a totally egocentric name for your country. You are not the only country in America, you know? So Americans is already taken. Sorry. Choose something else, or accept "United Statians". Because even if it sounds very stupid, that is what you chose. So be angry at yourselves, not us.

    By the way: Why don't you simply split into two countries. You know, with two completely different philosophies in your country, this would make everyone happy. You could still collaborate where you agree on things. And you could give the two new countries better names. :)

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