Comments on: Apple Easter eggs are not dead http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-09-30/apple-easter-eggs-are-not-dead The personal weblog of Peter Hosey. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:42:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Simone Manganelli http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-09-30/apple-easter-eggs-are-not-dead#comment-125954 Simone Manganelli Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:57:48 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2007-09-30/apple-easter-eggs-are-not-dead#comment-125954 Cute, although the video that it's referencing was pretty lame, IMHO. Also, I would call this a "documentation funny" rather than an "easter egg”. Easter eggs, IMHO, have to be part of the functionality of a shipping product, not part of the documentation (and certainly not just part of the <i>online</i> documentation). The blue screen of death [ http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://radr.ca/posts/3 ] that appears on the icon for PCs when connecting to them via the Finder in one of the Leopard betas would be an easter egg if it eventually ships. Other documentation funnies have been the “swarm of bees” reference [ http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301920 ], the "whatToDubya” parameter [ http://mikey-san.net/damage/archives/2007/04/header_of_state.html ], as well as the “how to carry an iMac G5” kbase article [ http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86816 ], although I'm not sure the last one was intentional. (I didn't use real links in this comment because the preview was being wonky when I included them, and I didn't want my final comment to be wonky as well.) Cute, although the video that it's referencing was pretty lame, IMHO. Also, I would call this a "documentation funny" rather than an "easter egg”. Easter eggs, IMHO, have to be part of the functionality of a shipping product, not part of the documentation (and certainly not just part of the online documentation). The blue screen of death [ http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://radr.ca/posts/3 ] that appears on the icon for PCs when connecting to them via the Finder in one of the Leopard betas would be an easter egg if it eventually ships.

Other documentation funnies have been the “swarm of bees” reference [ http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301920 ], the "whatToDubya” parameter [ http://mikey-san.net/damage/archives/2007/04/header_of_state.html ], as well as the “how to carry an iMac G5” kbase article [ http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86816 ], although I'm not sure the last one was intentional.

(I didn't use real links in this comment because the preview was being wonky when I included them, and I didn't want my final comment to be wonky as well.)

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