MetaFilter posts tagged with EasterEgg

Ukrainian art is all over the place

lysdexic — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:31:10 -0800

Ukrainian art is widely varied: easter eggs, body art(some pics nsfw). Painting, folk art, and religious art.

My, Easter eggs aren't what they used to be in 1995.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:48:23 -0800

The good, the bad and the completely eggsellent.

JeremiahBritt — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:40:17 -0800

The 2007 State Easter Eggs: Since 1994, each state and Washington DC has selected an artist to paint an Easter Egg representing them for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.
The eggs themselves are ga udy and beautiful, inscru table and fantastically artistic. Some state's submissions are bet ter than oth ers.
And then there's Wyoming.

ho ho ho beard

brundlefly — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:32:35 -0800

Santa'd: Flickr's new holiday Easter egg.

Mel Gibson Creeps Me Out...

Jeff_Larson — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:33:02 -0800

Mel Gibson Has Gone Off the Deep End So, this is a one link post, but this trailer breaks my brain. Look for the surprise around 1:46. (You may have to frame by frame it...)

Hip Hop Yoda

jonson — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:35:45 -0800

The Yoda hip hop dance easter egg from the latest Star Wars DVD is posted at Google Video. 1 min long, flash video.

aspect ratio easteregg

jonson — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:42:25 -0800

HDTV broadcasts contain an extra couple of inches of screen real estate on either side of the picture that are cropped out of the standard defintion broadcast of the same show. Most shows don't do anything special with that space, since the vast majority of viewers don't receive it, but NBC's My Name Is Earl did last night.

Is That A Dragon or a Duck?

absalom — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:42:39 -0800

Adventure - based on the classic text game of the same name - was the first game ever to contain an easter egg. It seems laughably primitive these days, but when it first hit shelves, Adventure was a programming masterpiece. The text version of Adventure (by Willie Crowther and Don Woods) required hundreds of KB and a mainframe computer to operate, so much that Atari brass told Warren Robinett not to even bother with a 2600 version. He did anyway, and the results are near legendary. The 2600 version of Adventure went on to sell over a million copies at $25 a pop. For his effort Robinett recieved absolutely nothing beyond his $22,000/year salary. Play the 2600 Adventure. (Flash) If you're one of those who requires some eye candy, why not download the Quake 3 Adventure Map, instead?

Giant Easter Egg

lobakgo — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 14:40:02 -0800

This giant Ukrainian Easter Egg (pysanka) was built in 1975 in Vegreville, Canada by (then) Univ. Utah Computer Science Professor Ronald Resch. Interesting egg factoids can be found here--including that it swivels like a weather vane. Vegreville has an annual festival. More images of egg here. The Vegreville Pysanka was the first physical structure completely designed with computer-aided geometric modeling software. There is a good description here of the complex geometry involved. It's based on a technique (PDF) he developed and patented for folding a flat material (i.e. sheet metal) into flexible surfaces. Ronald Resch has had an interesting career.

faceonmars — Thu, 21 Feb 2002 07:34:21 -0800

Amazon Easter Egg --Click on "Directory of All Stores" near the bottom, then scroll down to the copyright notice at the bottom. Under the "1996" is an invisible link which will take you to the farewell page for one of their employees.