Dead LEGO Minifig Skull Holds Eggs, Easter or Not

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:00:25 EDT

Easter is here. Yes, you all read about it in the Da Vinci Code, that whole thing about that guy who walked over water whose best friend was a giant bunny. Or something like that. Whatever. According to Dan Brown's next book, those two spent the whole week eating more eggs than Cool Hand Luke. Chocolate eggs, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, eggs benedict, boiled eggs in dead LEGO minifig skulls halved in two? Yes. Anything to scare your younger ones in the morning, match the minifig skull Egg Timer after the jump.

Unfortunately, the $10 two-skulls Egg Cup set is not available directly in the United States. You can buy the minifig head egg timer for $7.99. [LEGO and LEGO via Toylogy]

Amazon Kindle Has Secrets: Faux-GPS Google Maps, Minesweeper, and More

Adam Frucci — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:20:19 EST

So, you ~~wasted some hard-earned money on~~ bought an Amazon Kindle. Good for you! Now that you have one, it's time to exploit the crap out of it. I'm talking, of course, about easter eggs, otherwise known as functionality that should be available to everybody in the first place. Yes, there's Google Maps access with triangulation locating! Minesweeper! A picture viewer! And more!

Accessing the goodies requires fiddling with the firmware, so you've got to at least sort of know what you're doing in that regard, but once you do, you get all sorts of fun shortcut options. It seems strange that some of this stuff would be hidden, such as the faux-GPS Google Maps functionality. There are commands built-in, such as "find nearest gas station," that makes it seem like at some point these features were planned but scrapped for some reason. Oh well, if you really want them you can have them, just follow the link below for the details. [Reversing Everything via Interface]

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Dead LEGO Minifig Skull Holds Eggs, Easter or Not

Amazon Kindle Has Secrets: Faux-GPS Google Maps, Minesweeper, and More