Brian at FreeMacBlog writes in to point out an Apple easter egg he spotted in Pixar's Cars. During the opening race, one of the cars that is briefly on screen has an Apple logo on the hood, and is fittingly numbered "84." Pretty cool, Brian! Did anyone else spot this car?
Yesterday, we linked to an image that showed up on Flickr that seemed to be the red,
glowing visage of a mouse as generated by the light on the underside of an Apple Mighty Mouse. Whether or not Apple
intended for their mice to put on this little display is really irrelevant, as it's just fun to show people ("Hey,
want to see my mouse's mouse?"). A number of you sent in pictures of your own mice generating the little guy
(apparently it works with the older Apple Pro Mice, too). Thanks to Zach, Jason, Jonathan and Gary.
We're happy to receive more, so feel free to link to
an image of your own mouse's...um...inner mouse.*
*Kids, do not say "mouse" this many times at
home. I am a professional.
This one
is a bit weird, so bear with us. It seems that Flickr user
Dan Bowels noticed that the light on the underside of his Mighty Mouse produces what (kind of) looks like a mouse's
head on the surface of his desk. Has he stumbled upon an ultra-rare hardware easter egg, or is this just an optical
illusion? You decide. We're a little more than skeptical, but if you can replicate the image of the little red mouse
face with your own Mighty Mouse, we'd love to see it.
Back in February, we posted about the infamous Bruce the Yak
Easter Egg in Final Cut Pro. Since then, one of the members of the original FCP development team, Max Whirl, has left a great comment describing just
how this particular Easter Egg was born. He writes:
"Why a yak? Well, FCP was a long and arduous
development process and we were nearly shut down several times. During one of the more miserable schedule meetings, we
were each asked if we could meet the latest schedule...and one of the engineers remarked that 'if we can't make that
schedule, we might as well give up and go herd yaks.'"
Check out his full comment for an interesting
story. Thanks, Max!
Seems
Apple has hidden a secret
message to OSX86 hackers to find in the 10.4.4 build of Mac OS X for Intel. And this time it's in verse!
Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined his existing OS was so blind, he'd
do better to pirate an OS that ran great but found his hardware declined. Please don't steal Mac OS! Really, that's way uncool. (C) Apple Computer, Inc.
Sure, it's not the greatest poem, but how
funny is this! I've always loved easter eggs in software and this is the best kind. The people who run OSX86 Project
site have offered up their own poetic reply to Apple. You can read it at their site.
I humbly offer up my
own poetic reply in the style of William Carlos Williams after the jump...
I don't have a copy
of Final Cut Pro, so I can't confirm this. Resexcellence
forum user BK (the king?) was poking around the STRL resources in Final Cut Pro.rsrc and found what appears to be
the ramblings of an overworked programmer. It reads, in part:
"If we can't ship this puppy by then,
we might as well be herding yaks. I'm glad it's getting weird again. I didn't understand it when it wasn't
weird. The little cartoon man is messing with my head! Many Yaks were exploited during the creation of
this product. I'm concerned because the cow sounded pretty threatening. When you have a car that's that
uncool, you just gotta drive stupid. Don't look at me. They're not my flying monkeys. The disco ball is
spinning, but no one's home. Cows didn't have dynamite and steam shovels. There exists, but you can't
get there from here."
It goes on (and on, and on) from there. If anyone can confirm this for us,
we'd appreciate it.
This one
is a bit weird, so bear with us. It seems that Flickr user
Dan Bowels noticed that the light on the underside of his Mighty Mouse produces what (kind of) looks like a mouse's
head on the surface of his desk. Has he stumbled upon an ultra-rare hardware easter egg, or is this just an optical
illusion? You decide. We're a little more than skeptical, but if you can replicate the image of the little red mouse
face with your own Mighty Mouse, we'd love to see it.
Back in February, we posted about the infamous Bruce the Yak
Easter Egg in Final Cut Pro. Since then, one of the members of the original FCP development team, Max Whirl, has left a great comment describing just
how this particular Easter Egg was born. He writes:
Seems
Apple has hidden a secret
message to OSX86 hackers to find in the 10.4.4 build of Mac OS X for Intel. And this time it's in verse!
I don't have a copy
of Final Cut Pro, so I can't confirm this. Resexcellence
forum user BK (the king?) was poking around the STRL resources in Final Cut Pro.rsrc and found what appears to be
the ramblings of an overworked programmer. It reads, in part:
