PsychoNerd
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So, programmers get bored, as we all do. That’s why Easter eggs were made. These are odd snippets of code that really shouldn’t be there. So this thread is about those Easter eggs.
So try this, in Google Earth that initially started off as an Easter egg (Ctrl+alt+A, or Cmd+Option+A on the mac) You can use it to fly over 3D maps and even land on any flat area of land that you fancy. It’s like a flying sim.
Another thing to try is a ‘Google’ Easter egg, try typing in ‘Google Easter Eggs’ in to the Google homepage search bar, then click ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button for an Easter-themed example.
And another thing about Google! You see, they have a thing about pi. They’ve made their share release the number’s first eight decimal digits. If you’re using the iGoogle homepage, you’ll find another pi-related Easter egg. Set your PC’s clock to pi time (03:14am) to see animations appear in your page’s backdrop.
And another!!! The new browser, chrome, also contains and Easter egg (but only for XP). It’s triggered by typing an ‘about’ request into the toolbar – type ‘about:Internet’ to launch the Windows Pipes screensaver inside the browser. Vista users don’t get the screensaver but get a message saying ‘the pipes are clogged’.
The hidden emoticons in Skype’s chat tools probably won’t be apparent to everybody – but if you find yourself in a conversation where you’re being told too much information, try typing ‘(tmi)’ (that’s with brackets) and see what happens.
If hidden games are more your thing, there’s a copy of Tetris in the uTorrent Bit Torrent client, and space invaders is hidden inside OpenOffice. To play, open a new spreadsheet and add this formula to a cell: ‘=game()’. The cell will be filled with the text ‘Say what?’. In an adjacent cell, type ‘=GAME(“StarWars”)’ for a quick bout of mindless alien destruction.
Speaking of games, some Easter eggs costing programmers their jobs (GTA: San Andreas – Hot coffee), while others cost software companies large somes of money. An example of this is the game SimCopter, which was released in1996. One of the programmers, Jacques Servin, added an Easter egg that occasionally replaced the usual fireworks and bikini-clad girl ‘mission complete’ animation with kissing men in swimming trunks. This amused more than offended but ended Servin’s career at Maxis.
Even DVD’s have Easter eggs. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films contains plenty of Easter eggs. One on The fellowship Of the Ring DVD pulls up a spoof filmed for MTV, where Jack Black has the ring, somewhere not safe for work. There’s also a casino implosion hidden in Ocean’s 11.
Sooooo, that’s’ all I got in my head at the moment, can you name anymore Easter eggs that you’ve found.
So try this, in Google Earth that initially started off as an Easter egg (Ctrl+alt+A, or Cmd+Option+A on the mac) You can use it to fly over 3D maps and even land on any flat area of land that you fancy. It’s like a flying sim.
Another thing to try is a ‘Google’ Easter egg, try typing in ‘Google Easter Eggs’ in to the Google homepage search bar, then click ‘I’m feeling lucky’ button for an Easter-themed example.
And another thing about Google! You see, they have a thing about pi. They’ve made their share release the number’s first eight decimal digits. If you’re using the iGoogle homepage, you’ll find another pi-related Easter egg. Set your PC’s clock to pi time (03:14am) to see animations appear in your page’s backdrop.
And another!!! The new browser, chrome, also contains and Easter egg (but only for XP). It’s triggered by typing an ‘about’ request into the toolbar – type ‘about:Internet’ to launch the Windows Pipes screensaver inside the browser. Vista users don’t get the screensaver but get a message saying ‘the pipes are clogged’.
The hidden emoticons in Skype’s chat tools probably won’t be apparent to everybody – but if you find yourself in a conversation where you’re being told too much information, try typing ‘(tmi)’ (that’s with brackets) and see what happens.
If hidden games are more your thing, there’s a copy of Tetris in the uTorrent Bit Torrent client, and space invaders is hidden inside OpenOffice. To play, open a new spreadsheet and add this formula to a cell: ‘=game()’. The cell will be filled with the text ‘Say what?’. In an adjacent cell, type ‘=GAME(“StarWars”)’ for a quick bout of mindless alien destruction.
Speaking of games, some Easter eggs costing programmers their jobs (GTA: San Andreas – Hot coffee), while others cost software companies large somes of money. An example of this is the game SimCopter, which was released in1996. One of the programmers, Jacques Servin, added an Easter egg that occasionally replaced the usual fireworks and bikini-clad girl ‘mission complete’ animation with kissing men in swimming trunks. This amused more than offended but ended Servin’s career at Maxis.
Even DVD’s have Easter eggs. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films contains plenty of Easter eggs. One on The fellowship Of the Ring DVD pulls up a spoof filmed for MTV, where Jack Black has the ring, somewhere not safe for work. There’s also a casino implosion hidden in Ocean’s 11.
Sooooo, that’s’ all I got in my head at the moment, can you name anymore Easter eggs that you’ve found.
