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Tag: easter eggs

  • Academic bibliography, citing six papers related principally to probability. The third paper, highlighted for the picture, is: Lobachevsky, "Analytic and Algebraic Topology of Locally Euclidean Metrizations of Infinitely Differentiable Remannian Manifolds" (Unpublished)

    Do you know the story of how Tom Lehrer hid an Easter Egg in an academic paper he wrote at the NSA, and his joke wasn't discovered for almost six decades?

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    • of this original
    • posted 29 July, 2025
  • Trip to Waddesdon Manor with the kids for an Easter Egg Hunt.

    Full image of Dan sits on a bus, a dog in his lap, alongside a boy and a girl. All three humans are wearing cardboard 'rabbit ears' hats.
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    Dan sits on a bus, a dog in his lap, alongside a boy and a girl. All three humans are wearing cardboard 'rabbit ears' hats.

    • Note
    • posted 18 April, 2025
  • Video preview showing Dan overlaid on a screenshot of Ultima Underworld II.

    My Favourite Video Game Easter Egg [Video]

    A video version of my blog post "My Favourite Video Game Easter Egg", in which I show you Alorik's crystal ball from Ultima Underworld II and tell you why it's so important to me.

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    • Video
    • 3 comments
    • posted 20 March, 2024
  • Video preview showing Dan overlaid on a screenshot of Ultima Underworld II.

    My Favourite Video Game Easter Egg

    My favourite video game Easter egg is Alorik's crystal ball from 1993's Ultima Underworld II, and I'd love to tell you why.

    Read more - about 12 minutes (2695 words)

    • Article
    • 2 comments
    • posted 20 March, 2024
  • Image representing post: Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret

    Satoru Iwata's first commercial game has a secret

    After a long hiatus, Codex has returned with a vlog about Satoru Iwata's history as a game developer. Nostalgic fun.

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    • of this original
    • posted 15 March, 2023

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