Get Your Sleuth On!
Across the state school board members are reaching for their budgets to begin the annual informal dissection of FY2012. Q4 is our digital Easter egg! (BTW - more often than not, questions board members devise from their perusal of the online checkbook have easy explanations! Board members generally don't look for the "Gotcha" moment - they use the checkbook to develop a fiscal sense of the needs of their district or school - it's an opportunity to see approved budgets in action and impact.)
Definition of Easter Egg from Wikipedia (of course it's not entirely verfied, but you get the idea.)
A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke, or feature in a work such as a computer program, web page, video game, movie, book, or crossword. The term was coined—according to Warren Robinett—by Atari after they were pointed to the secret message left by Robinett in the game Adventure.[1] It draws a parallel between the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many Western nations and the last Russian imperial family's tradition of giving elaborately jeweled egg-shaped creations by Carl Fabergé which contained hidden surprises.[2]
This practice is similar in some respects to hidden signature motifs such as Diego Rivera including himself in his murals, Alfred Hitchcock's legendary cameo appearances, the appearances of Fritz in the works of Chris van Allsburg, and various "Hidden Mickeys" that can be found throughout the various Disney Parks. An early example of this kind of "Easter egg" is Al Hirschfeld's "Nina".
Atari's Adventure, released in 1979, contained what was thought to be the first video game "Easter egg", the name of the programmer (Warren Robinett). However, evidence of earlier Easter eggs has since surfaced. Several cartridges for the Fairchild Channel F include previously unknown Easter eggs, programmed by Michael Glass and Brad Reid-Selth, that are believed to predate Robinett's work.[3][4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(media)
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