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04 Aug 08
Language Trainers Group : LT Accent Game
Guess a person's origin by listening to them reciting text.
04 Apr 07
Easter Egg Hunt: Hidden Treasures in Your Design Software | Crestock.com Blog
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8. Firefox: The Book of Mozilla
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Type "about:mozilla" in the address field of Firefox, Camino, Netscape or any other Mozilla-based browser, and you get the following screen, with a piece of apocalyptic prose in the style of the Book of Revelations, apparently quoted from "The Book of Mozilla".
In case you wonder: no, there isn't really a "Book of Mozilla", but there have been a few different of these verses, this is the one included in all the recent browser-versions. Just to analyse the references here a bit; the verse, 7:15, refers to September 15th 2003, when AOL shut down the Netscape browser division, and the Mozilla Foundation was launched. The "great bird" rising from the ashes refers to the Mozilla project and the development of the Firefox browser – initially named "Firebird".
And Mammon? Presumably it wouldn't be too great a stretch of the imagination to assume that this refers to Microsoft and Internet Explorer. -
10. OpenOffice/NeoOffice Calc: SpaceInvaders Game
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In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, you could find arguably the most elaborate Easter eggs ever. Excel 97 had a 3D flight simulator, the 2000 edition saw this replaced by a motor racing game. Some corporate kill-joys were not so happy about their staff having easy access to computer games through their spreadsheet applications, and leant on Microsoft to rid them of this nuisance.
It is with some exhilaration we note that the OpenOffice project has taken due responsibility for keeping this tradition alive, and included a SpaceInvaders-style game in the Calc (spreadsheet) application. This also works for NeoOffice for Mac:
Create a new spreadsheet in OpenOffice/NeoOffice and enter this formula in any cell: =game() Press enter and the cell should display "say what?" Now enter: =GAME("StarWars")
The game will open in a new window. Choose a player and give 'em all you've got! If you close the game completely and want to play again later, the cell will display "oh no, not again!", so you'll have to restart the application to play again.
29 Sep 06
A Bite to Eat!
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I give you, miniature fast-food.
i know it's hard to tell from this shot, so I'll give you something for scale. . . .
our burger was a little over one inch tall and about an inch wide.
Here, we have the "money shot" of our burger with its many teeny layers
After we took all the pictures we cut the tiny burger in half and each ate half. It tasted awesome.
Our official entry is the burger, though the burger and fries together are still less than two inches.
Here are some shots of the preparation of our mini-meal. Everything was handmade, including the tiny buns.
I used a Splenda packet for scale, since it was two inches long. Check out the mini pickles, onions and tomato!
Frozen ground beef, cut with a jigger.
It only took a few seconds to cook.
Testing the tiny french fries.
Two batches later. . .
So. . .very. . .small.
I made the soda and tray out of polymer clay and my husband designed and printed the label and tray liner out of Craftster content
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