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Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion

Posted by kdawson on from the it-takes-braaains dept.

danielkennedy74 writes "Newsweek.com becomes the latest in a long list of sites that will reveal an Easter egg if you enter the Konami code correctly (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, enter). This is a cheat code that appeared in many of Konami's video games, starting around 1986 — my favorite places to use it were Contra and Life Force, 30 lives FTW. The Easter egg was probably included by a developer unbeknownst to the Newsweek powers that be. It's reminiscent of an incident that happened at ESPN last year, involving unicorns."

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  1. Re:crap summary by bartwol · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I used to hate kdawson only for his idiotic political posts during the final days of the Bush administration.

    I know, right? There's nothing worse than people injecting politics into an otherwise technical discussion. Too bad it's all too common. . .

    Ummm...no...the GP did not suggest there's something wrong with people injecting politics into a technical discussion. That was your straw man construct...easy to rebut your own soft lobs, eh?

    He did say that kdawson writes idiotic political posts. If you are familiar with kdawson's posts, you should know that the GP is correct. Often, kdawson overtly abandons truth as he makes a mad dash for his notion of an entertaining post. For many of us, those posts are insultingly inflammatory and unsubstantiated. They are, by preponderance of their context, WRONG, and as such, IDIOTIC.

    When kdawson directs his trite distortions to malign another one of his boogie men, it may be fun for people who want to ride in that posse, but for others, distortion is, well, distortion. And that's not helpful in _any_ discussion.