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Newsweek Easter Egg Reports Zombie Invasion
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."
After all, it isn't like their subscriber list is expanding a lot lately.
Wait, maybe this is part of a business strategy to appeal to the burgeoning zombie market!
I would have to say that my favorite part of this conversion is the unaltered ad that shows a recent cover of Newsweek featuring Michelle Obama and the caption "FEED YOUR CHILDREN WELL".
That green slime had it coming.
After trying the code on numerous random sites and getting nothing but failure I decided to let Fox.com be my last stop. I wasn't expecting anything with the string of failures on a slew of other high profile websites.
After entering the code the text and articles immediately changed. No longer was there a right wing conservative pro-republican bias on any article. It was all neutral tone reading with viewpoints from all sides. In fact, nearly article was damn neared educational and it left me yearning for more. There was even a detailed plan plus Fox coupled subsidiaries for containing and resolving the issues with the BP oil spill.
Unfortunately, the somewhat magical result with seemingly endless positives also had a nefarious side. I could no longer access any porn site. In fact, my friends who could no longer find reach their favorite "photography" web sites.
I immediately made a quick call to the news room and eventually reached their noc. Once they understood the nature of the problem they quickly reverted the code push and set fire to the primary data center.
In the end we agreed it was just too great a sacrifice.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
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. . .
-- The fear of libertarianism is the terror that the mediocre feel at the possibility of being judged on their merits.
Huh.
Hey mate, spare a sig?
Can you stop doing that? Every time you try, it sends a copy of all your mail to all of your friends, and their friends, and their friends. I'm getting tired of reading your personal stuff. Your best friends girlfriend? Man, bros before hos. Didn't you read the guy's handbook. I get it, she's hot, but we have rules. You start breaking the rules, and it all becomes chaos. That was a really hot picture she sent you though. I didn't know anyone could get into that position. Is she a contortionist or something?
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.