I’m a software developer, so obviously I am talking about the ancient practice of embedding hidden features into software.  Even the left-brained need a creative outlet of some form.  I thought I would share a few of the software easter eggs that I know and enjoy.

• A slight twist on Isaac Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics.

• An excerpt of the book of Mozilla.

• Google’s ode to the “bushism“.

• A close relative to the easter egg is ASCII art.  Sit back and enjoy the big screen like never before.  In windows, go to “Start” -> “Run” and type in “cmd”.  In the command line type, “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl” and then hit enter twice.

Do you have any favorite easter eggs I might have missed?

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One Response to “The Art of the Easter Egg”

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  Phil Says:

  
  January 27th, 2009 at 7:25 pm

  In the Google iPhone app, go to the “Settings” menu and scroll up a bunch of times until you see the hidden menu called “Bells and Whistles.” Pretty useless except for the open in app feature.

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