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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."
....slashdot still does nothing.
The zombies at the IT department's brains. And then the servers became self aware, and destroyed the news article in an attempt to increase the effectiveness of the zombie apocalypse. Really not a good day for humanity so far.
The story is ostensibly about Newsweek.com putting an Easter egg on their website. Then why is there no link to said website in the fine summary?
I used to hate kdawson only for his idiotic political posts during the final days of the Bush administration. Now I hate him for posting godawful story after godawful story. Leave this one to samzenpus to put on Idle, it at least belongs there.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
I was the IT manager at a smaller group of newspapers. Everything you said was true of our place, except 2 things.
1. Hostile IT depts. There was only two devs (only one technically competent) and two IT people. We knew each other. We worked well together. Us IT guys set up a test server on an old machine, and gave the dev full access to it. We all met & worked together to get things working & optimized.
2. Graphic designers. Ours didn't know what html was. They knew InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator & Flash. They didn't know what GoLive was. Since our site was already ugly, we just dusted off a template, changed a few colors & called it good. It looked the same as the old, ugly site so no one upstairs complained.
I worked with some petty, manipulative people and worked a lot of overtime (IT manager, newspaper, you do the math). I quit my job. And now sleep soundly.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Seeing stuff like this causes me to wonder exactly how US corporations manage to function at all. Dumb luck is the only good answer I have.
Its cute that you think that works.
Wait, am I having a flashback, or did you say that your IT guys won't give you (a developer who, I assume, are familiar enough with running and administering your box to not bork it) admin rights to your box, but they'll give graphic designers (who, I imagine are good at their jobs, but are essentially artists) ROOT access to the linux boxes and sql servers, which apparently are production? Dude WTF? You should seriously talk to someone about getting sane IT polocies in there.
I got nuthin
Your in for a rude shock when you get your first real job kid. You can state, scream, shout, draw diagrammes, write reports all you want explaining how shit has to be, but management will still go "Yeah whatever nerd, get it finished by tomorrow and no you cant have that memory upgrade, and no you cant have a dev server, code repository or any other word we cant understand here in accounting. Anyway, my son said you dont need it, and he's the top in his senior high computing class.".
Excuse the Unicode crap in my posts. That's an apostrophe, and slashdot is busted.
1. Hostile IT depts. There was only two devs (only one technically competent) and two IT people. We knew each other. We worked well together. Us IT guys
As it turns out, IT guys and normal people have two very different thresholds for hostility.
If it's any consolation, it's the same at my job and we're not a news shop. And it was the same at my last job, too. :( What hurts is the apathy, pass-the-buck syndrome, and overall poor work environment.
But having that sex-on-the-Xerox-machine flipbook is so worth it.
There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.