Flitterkill April 27, 2009 Share Flitterkill GC Board Member April 27, 2009 This is making the rounds now, doubt it will last long. up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter Yes, the konami code. Go to espn.com Use your keyboard, and just type in the code, everything up til enter. Then, upon hitting the enter key, you will get a pony. Or a rainbow. Keep hitting the enter key. More ponies. More rainbows. Of course, this could just be a bizzaro stealth promotion on ESPN's part - in which case - well done? -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonfly April 27, 2009 Share dragonfly Member April 27, 2009 That is freaking awesome!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill April 27, 2009 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member April 27, 2009 Didn't even last an hour before it was nuked by ESPN. Screencaps abound on the interwebs, here's mine - I like how the ponies nicely juxtaposition with the NASCAR weekend carnage. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwack April 28, 2009 Share bushwack Member April 28, 2009 Charlie, Charlie, let's go to candy mountain Charrrllliie. Looks like missed it here, but there is always candy mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler April 28, 2009 Share boiler Member April 28, 2009 Why do I feel like one of ESPN's web guys got fired this morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo April 28, 2009 Share anonymo Member April 28, 2009 Something is not right here, ESPN got that down way too fast (it was advertised on TV around 7pm, down before the bit finished) they must have paid their resident nerd a small fortune to load a backup that quickly. Oh wait I think I just figured out the angle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flitterkill April 28, 2009 Author Share Flitterkill GC Board Member April 28, 2009 I don't have the link but I found this on Kotaku and the guy who's script this is chimed in. Some web monkey at ESPN had loaded it and then twittered that he had to take it down so it looks like an inside gag that got loose in the wild. Author of the script (who does not work at ESPN) also suggested that a few other mainstream sites have this script loaded as well. To remove that from ESPN's site is trivial btw - prob took all of a minute to load the page in the editor, delete the line pointing to the script, and load it back up on their server so no surprise it came down fast. -Fk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters April 28, 2009 Share stutters GC Alumni April 28, 2009 I don't have the link but I found this on Kotaku and the guy who's script this is chimed in. Some web monkey at ESPN had loaded it and then twittered that he had to take it down so it looks like an inside gag that got loose in the wild. Author of the script (who does not work at ESPN) also suggested that a few other mainstream sites have this script loaded as well. To remove that from ESPN's site is trivial btw - prob took all of a minute to load the page in the editor, delete the line pointing to the script, and load it back up on their server so no surprise it came down fast. -Fk make the change in dev, get it signed off. make the change in qa, get it signed off. push it to production, have it blow up, go back to start. kidding - if this got out there in the first place, uhm, holy quality checks. there is a cached version out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohawk April 28, 2009 Share mohawk Member April 28, 2009 I don't have the link but I found this on Kotaku and the guy who's script this is chimed in. Some web monkey at ESPN had loaded it and then twittered that he had to take it down so it looks like an inside gag that got loose in the wild. Author of the script (who does not work at ESPN) also suggested that a few other mainstream sites have this script loaded as well. To remove that from ESPN's site is trivial btw - prob took all of a minute to load the page in the editor, delete the line pointing to the script, and load it back up on their server so no surprise it came down fast. -Fk make the change in dev, get it signed off. make the change in qa, get it signed off. push it to production, have it blow up, go back to start. kidding - if this got out there in the first place, uhm, holy quality checks. there is a cached version out there. Sounds like the SAP enviroment I'm currently testing in.. Change Mgt rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny April 29, 2009 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni April 29, 2009 awww i missed it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EbilDustBunny May 8, 2009 Share EbilDustBunny GC Alumni May 8, 2009 http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/08/the-k...dds-some-flare/ konami code should work for anything.... ANYTHING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclean May 9, 2009 Share Unclean Member May 9, 2009 I don't have the link but I found this on Kotaku and the guy who's script this is chimed in. Some web monkey at ESPN had loaded it and then twittered that he had to take it down so it looks like an inside gag that got loose in the wild. Author of the script (who does not work at ESPN) also suggested that a few other mainstream sites have this script loaded as well. To remove that from ESPN's site is trivial btw - prob took all of a minute to load the page in the editor, delete the line pointing to the script, and load it back up on their server so no surprise it came down fast. -Fk make the change in dev, get it signed off. make the change in qa, get it signed off. push it to production, have it blow up, go back to start. kidding - if this got out there in the first place, uhm, holy quality checks. there is a cached version out there. Sounds like the SAP enviroment I'm currently testing in.. Change Mgt rocks! It's the best. Actually, quality checks don't catch everything. There's no way the test protocol had a step like "Nothing happens when you enter the konami code [ ] Pass [ ] Fail" The code review is where this should have been caught. Do a windiff on the the code, review what changed from prod. What's this "load_konami.js" reference here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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