There are still Easter Eggs!
The last time I looked at any language-used stats, English was used on ~68% of all blogs, which I remember because I was freaked out at how much content people from Iceland and Sweden were throwing up.
So the whole American part probably isn't kosher, considering there are other countries that speak English also, but I'm willing to concede the joke on the rest of it, and asumme its their small way of telling people they are listening. [Via Laughing Squid, via Sandy.]
[Update:] Gruber pointed out he mentioned this before, and that I'd seen it before, which means I just shouldn't be let near anything today. FYI, it's straight from the New Oxford Americal Dictionary, which means they have an Easter Egg. *trundles back to his cave*
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 07, 2005, at 04:51 PM
Comments (9)
Posted by: Ankalon at August 7, 2005 05:49 PM
Hey, I'm sorry but this is old news. It was first found when Tiger came out, and recently Dan Gilmor started ranting about it.
I mean, it it such a Big Deal? The sentence fits the definition, most bloggers do have an unhealthy relationship with computers. Shall we look back through Gilmor's blog? It seems he's angry because the definition reminds he of himself. I'm glad you are actually joyful of a small, fun egg in everyday life.
Would one rather have the following?
blogs run by twenty-something Americans with at least an unhealthy interest in BDSM.
Can be repeated with the following:
Glue
Hitler
Thousands of small, one inch pieces of string
Colonoscopy
Posted by: vastheman at August 7, 2005 05:50 PM
Yeah, I agree. The definition is "a weblog" and the entire italicised part is just a colloquial usage example. Cool.
Posted by: drunkenbatman at August 7, 2005 05:52 PM
Hey, I'm sorry but this is old news. It was first found when Tiger came out, and recently Dan Gilmor started ranting about it.
I hadn't seen it, and since I'd recently gone on about Easter Eggs being ground out in the name of sugary sweetness, if I see one I"m going to post it. :)
Posted by: Ankalon at August 7, 2005 06:11 PM
Oh, I guess not everyone goes dumpster diving in dictionaries.
(P.S. What's the code on this board for quoting?)
Posted by: Sören Kuklau at August 7, 2005 06:25 PM
(P.S. What's the code on this board for quoting?)
HTML's blockquote tag. ;-)
Posted by: Lucas Eckels at August 7, 2005 07:03 PM
An easter egg I discovered last night -- when you enter the original Star Wars trilogy in Delicious Library (UPC 024543123415), a synthesized Darth Vader voice says "I am your father"
Posted by: Dan at August 8, 2005 11:49 AM
And in AdiumX (one of DB's favorite programs, I know), if you go to Preferences -> Advanced -> Contact List and mouse over the text "Show window shadow," you'll see a Babylon 5 reference ("Stay close to the Vorlon"). I am not a hueg B5 fan, but I was perplexed enough by the apperance of the tooltip that I had to Google it...
Posted by: Jon H at August 20, 2005 03:32 PM
A real dictionary easter egg was the one in NeXT's dictionary.app, where if you looked up 'Gullible', it would show your own picture if one was available in the mail system.
Joke? Or usage example? Pretty much all of the italic text in the Oxford english dictionary is a very colloquial usage of the word. For example, look up moron.