The (Other) Easter Egg

Easter is right around the corner, and a post about Easter eggs would be most fitting....but this isn't about those types of Easter eggs.  I'm talking about those awesome intentional hidden messages or images found in everything from movies, games, software, music, websites, books, art, and crosswords.  It easily parallels the idea of the Easter egg hunt, as well as the hidden surprises found in the famous Faberge eggs.

Here are some examples of well known Easter eggs:

Microsoft Word 97

1. Open a new document 

2. Type "Blue" 

3. Select word 

4. Go to Format -> Font 

5. Choose Font Style Bold, Color Blue 

6. Type " " (space) after word "Blue" 

7. Go to Help -> About 

8. Ctrl-Shift-Left click the Word icon/banner 

9. Use Z for left flipper, M for right flipper, and ESC to exit 

10. Discover what Microsoft means by "Productivity Application"

from http://www.eeggs.com/

That awful fourth Indiana Jones movie poster...look carefully at the space between the skull's eyes

An alien?!  Was it perhaps the poster artists trying to warn us away from seeing an Indiana Jones movie with ALIENS??  I think maybe...

One of the coolest Easter eggs of them all...from the iconic Silence of the Lambs movie, look closely at that moth...

Just some pretty markings on its back, right?  
WRONG!!

Phillippe Halsman's photograph of Salvador Dali and some naked ladies.  MIND BLOWN.  

taken from www.cracked.com

Leonardo Da Vinci's secret music score in The Last Supper

Notes!

Don't believe me?

Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearances in all of his movies