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Did you know that at one point entering the Konami code on ESPN’s website would release a flurry of unicorns? Or that you can set your FaceBook language to English (Pirate)? There are more over at BuzzFeed for your Easter Egg enjoyment.
Did you know you can make Google do a barrel roll or go askew? Even if you did, you probably didn’t know at least a few of these funny Google Easter Eggs.
Neatorama readers might have a bit of a leg up on today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. In the wake of the “do a barrel roll” frenzy, they’ve looked up more neat tricks from Google and made some up from imagination as well. Your challenge is to determine which is which. I got 10 out of 12 correct, as I did NOT open a new tab to quick-check the answers. That would be too easy. Link
I learned this morning from reddit that the Google search page will do a barrel roll if you tell it to. That’s far from the only neat tricks Google has embedded in their sites for those who have the time to find them. For those who don’t, Buzzfeed has a list of ten you might have fun checking out. Link
Did you know the statue of liberty in GTA IV has a secret beating heart held up by chains on the inside? And that there’s apparently no reason for it? Cracked has all kinds of cool video game Easter eggs in this great article.
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Happy Easter, everyone! If you’re looking for a neat and wonderful gallery of Easter eggs, look no further than the one Jill wrote for mental_floss. This one above, the eggscellently geeky Battlestar Galact-egg-a, was made by Geeks Are Sexy a while ago (featured before on Neatorama here).
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Poor Easter Bunny! Seattle public school is renaming Easter eggs “Spring Spheres.” The story broke on Dori Monson Show on the radio:
Jessica, 16, told KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson Show that a week before spring break, the students commit to a week-long community service project. She decided to volunteer in a third grade class at a public school, which she would like to remain nameless.
“At the end of the week I had an idea to fill little plastic eggs with treats and jelly beans and other candy, but I was kind of unsure how the teacher would feel about that,” Jessica said.
She was concerned how the teacher might react to the eggs after of a meeting earlier in the week where she learned about “their abstract behavior rules.”
“I went to the teacher to get her approval and she wanted to ask the administration to see if it was okay,” Jessica explained. “She said that I could do it as long as I called this treat ‘spring spheres.’ I couldn’t call them Easter eggs.”
The School District said that it was done to comply with their “Religion and Religious Accommodation” policy, where “no religious belief or non-belief should be promoted by the School District or its employees, and none should be disparaged.” (Update 4/19/11 – The School District didn’t say it was done to comply with their policy. That was my mistake – they did put a statement pointing to their Religion and Religious Accommodation policy – Thanks Joe Mondo!).
A+ for political correctness, but what grade do you think the school should get for common sense? Link
The diabolically laughing folks at Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories developed a machine that will draw precise patterns on an egg:
The Eggbot has a rigid but adjustable chassis that allows you to mount spherical or egg-shaped objects of various sizes, and rotate them about their axis of symmetry using a stepping motor under computer control. A second stepping motor moves a pen about an axis perpendicular to that “egg” axis, and a small servo motor raises or lowers the pen above the egg surface.
Two experts in neuroanatomy are convinced that Michelangelo’s depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel contains a secret message found in the bumps on the Almighty’s neck: a map of the human brain (meant to represent human intelligence). It seems to me that an expert in vegetables would see a bell pepper, and an expert in clouds would see a cumulonimbus, but their argument is nothing if not exhaustive.
There are plenty of other easter eggs hidden in masterpieces, so maybe it’s true.
Link via 3QuarksDaily
This article highlights seven interesting things you can see if you look closely at masterpieces. It includes paintings with a baby flipping off the pope, UFO’s in the sky, and the shape of a brain that surrounds God as painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
While some might dismiss this as a coincidence, experts suggest that it would be harder to explain that this was not Michelangelo’s intention. Even complex components within the brain, such as the cerebellum, optic chiasm and pituitary gland can all be found in the picture. As for that sassy green sash running down the pons/spinal column/dude-holding-God-up, it follows the path of the vertebral artery perfectly.
Along with drawing, painting, sculpting, St. Peter’s Basilica building and generally being among the universe’s top bananas, Michelangelo counted cadaver dissecting as a favorite way to pass the time. He was so mad about corpse-cutting, in fact, that a friend once presented him with a perfectly formed dead Moor as a gift.
NSFW. Link
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Ukrainian artist Oksana Mas created an enormous mosaic of the Virgin Mary composed of 15,000 wooden Easter eggs at the Santa Sophia cathedral in Kiev. The work was unveiled yesterday.
Elaborate Easter eggs — “pysanky” — are a major artistic tradition in the Ukraine. Gallery at the link.
Link via DudeCraft | Artist’s Website | Photo: Sergei Supinksy/AFP/Getty
This Easter, don’t just dip your eggs in dye for ho-hum Easter eggs … rather, unleash your creative side to make them memorable!
Dabbled blog explains:
Another Flickr Roundup for you, this time it’s Ways to Dye Your Easter Eggs… come on, you weren’t going to just go use a kit, were you? From cabbage to duct tape, we have lots of cool ideas for making your eggs memorable. Some complicated, some easy and kid-friendly!
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