An Easter Egg Collection

• Google-Earth Flight Simulator

  1. Start Google Earth
  2. Click on the earth
  3. Press Alt-Ctrl-A
  4. Release your inner "Maverick"
  Note: Requires Google Earth 4.2

• The Book of Mozilla

  1. Start any version of Firefox
  2. In the URL bar, type "about:mozilla" (without the quotes)

• Gnome's version of "Wanda the Fish":

  1. Press Alt-F2
  2. When the "Run Application" dialog box opens, type "free the fish" (don't type the quotes) and press enter

• A "Space Invaders" or "Galaxia" type game in Gnome:

  1. Press Alt-F2
  2. When the "Run Application" dialog box opens, type "gegls from outer space" (again, leave out the quotes) and press enter

• Zen-dude in Zenity

  1. Start Zenity by typing "zenity --about" in the command shell
  2. When the "About" dialog box opens, type the word "zen"

• "Star Wars" game in Open Office

  1. Open up a spreadsheet in Open Office
  2. In an empty cell, type "=game()" (don't type the quotes) and press enter
  3. Open Office will display "say what?" in the cell
  4. In another cell, type "=GAME("StarWars")" and press enter
  
  Note: this will only work once! To play again, you must close and restart Open Office.

• Tic-Tac-Toe in Open Office

  1. Start Open Office's spreadsheet program
  2. In any cell type "=GAME(A2:C4;"TicTacToe")"

• Eliza

  1. Open up emacs
  2. Hit "Enter"
  3. Press "Escape"
  4. Type "xdoctor"
  5. Tell Eliza all about it :)
  6. To exit, hit Ctrl-X Ctrl-C