Happy Easter!

I'd like to take a minute to wish everyone in the Downshift community (all four of you) a happy Easter holiday.

I'd also like to talk a bit about Easter eggs. Not the kind that rabbits lay around your house--..wait, what do you mean rabbits don't lay eggs? ....Meh, whatever. Anyway, I'm talking about the kind the people hide in things. Little extra bits and secrets and the like most common in software development. Like the flight simulator they hid in MS Excel '97, or all the little bits and bobs hidden throughout the Grand Theft Auto series of video games.

But how many cars do you know of have Easter eggs hidden in them? Not many that I know of. I remember hearing Ford's 6.2L V8 has "THE BOSS IS BACK" stamped in the valley between the Vs, under the intake manifold. That counts, I think. Many cars have non-defeatable traction control systems that actually CAN be switched off with an elaborate manipulation of the car's controls.

A part of me kinda likes stuff like that, but a part of me wonders why they felt they had to hide it in the first place.