A little known fact about me: I'll do just about whatever my friend Chris tells me to do, just because I want to be popular*, so a half an hour ago, when he told Twitter to go to espn.com and type the Konami code into the search box, I stopped performing life-saving CPR on a hobo and did exactly that.
Here's what ensued:
Every time you hit a key after pressing enter, a new unicorn would pop up. It was so fucking glorious, I made sure it was the last thing the hobo saw before he died, because I knew he would have wanted it that way.
Whoever wrote that code deserves a medal. Whoever forced them to take the code out (almost as quickly as it was discovered) deserves a boot to the head**.
*not true.
** and one more for Jenny and the wimp.
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I want to move to Cal-Gary and get my piece of the pie!
This was so well-timed. A friend of mine’s birthday is tomorrow, and every year when people ask her what she wants, she says, “A pony.” She now has such a large collection of pony figures that she won’t accept any more. Now I can give her virtual ponies. BONUS.
CS
I’m crying tears of joy right now. This is so fucking awesome. (Can I say that? Fucking? Am I going to get into trouble? Um…)
A few more unicorns, it could almost be Diablo III.
You can still view it here: http://sports.espn.go.com/espntv/espnGuide
Apparently, they took it down around 4:44 PM today … but there is a cached version that people can still play with (thanks PC World!.
Also, the credit for the Unicorifying goes to http://www.cornify.com 🙂
A handy google cache was pointed out (by some guy named Shacker MH Knight?): http://tinyurl.com/cayk6q for anybody seeking to recreate this. I know I wanted to. ;D
<3 – Kimmy
It was a moment of magic, wasn’t it? 🙂
I wrote the script that konami’d the cornify script.. If you’d like to add some sparkle under your own konami… http://paulirish.com/2009/cornify-easter-egg-with-jquery/
I will never forgive myself for missing out on the fun and magic.
:O oh dear lord, i think i see Hello Kitty riding a unicorn!! *dies inside*
FTW!
I cannot describe how awesome this is.
*readies boot to head and goes to see cached version*
You, sir, are a national treasure.
What scares me is how many of these unicorn/rainbow images I remember owning as a sticker/folder/stationary set, but I am disappointed that there seems to be no lisa frank unicorn.
Oh, how glorious!
Oh, look at all the pretty ponies and rainbows!
The thing that made me laugh the most is that when you scroll over the picture, it says “OMG Fucking Espn unicorns, fuck yeah”. Those are words I never thought I’d see in combination. Fuck. ESPN. Unicorn. My Little Ponies on CRACK.
oh how i wish i’d gotten to see it for myself…that would’ve just made my freakin’ day! Thanks for the screen shot, Wil.
OMG. I would have died from awesome overload.
My 17 month old daughter was very excited by this.
OMG, I am flashing back to my bedroom in the 80s. I love rainbows and unicorns! WHEEEE!!!
Very cool, too bad it’s gone.
Aww I would have liked to have seen that. That unicorn picture is bad-a. And is that Chris Hardwick, as in the one you worked with in Jane White Is Sick & Twisted? It didn’t look like him in the picture I seen but I may be wrong.. p.s. The Liars Club was freaking AWESOME! I just got done watching it about and hour ago.. and there’s a song in there called Hotter Than Red that I really wanna hear but I can’t find out who sings it for the life of me!
ROFLMAO! That was CLASSIC! If I had twitter, I so totally would have fallen for that in a nanosecond and laughed my ass off the entire time. I’m one of those people who actually find crank callers amusing as hell, so whenever I get one, I try to stay on the phone with the other person(s) for as long as possible. They usually eventually freak out and hang up on me first.
This is what I’d consider to be more of a high-tech version of a crank call…uhhh…I think? All I know is that I would have died laughing if someone did that to me. Props to Paul Irish, that was just so fantastically funny as hell!
Wil, you’re such a bastard for letting that poor hobo die.
I cuss like a sailor and have somehow managed to stick around for the past five years, so to answer your question, fuck no! lol
LOL…classic on many levels. But, as a Canadian, super-props for the Frantics “Boot To The Head” reference.
Oh my dear… this post made me super giddy and I got to “…Whoever forced them to take the code out (almost as quickly as it was dis-” I slumped. Whoever did that should get a metal and mirror their efforts somewhere were everyone can go see and see glitter and unicorns in their full glory.
Who are you unicorn person? Please, more unicorns, and give us time unabashedly experience their beauty with freedom from corporate license/brand monarchy.
I’m not the only one who remembers Lisa Frank. Yea us!
So did you guys have a store totally devoted to the sticker collectors? We had the Galley and PickWicker, consequetive. (I know I spelled that wrong 🙁 )
More coffe.
It was worth the hobo. In fact, I would place its Hoboiciditude* closer to 3.
Because I value life.
N
*(the super secret rating I just made up quantifying how may hobo deaths something is worth to make happen)
I’m still tickled as hell at the “Jenny and the wimp” Frantics reference made by a non-Canadian. I’m used to being the only one! That’s a first!
Sadly no, but perhaps even sadder was the constant chattering about what greeting card/drug stores had what lines of stickers (i.e. “Hey, I was at freddy’s over the weekend and they have the new Sandylion, or my friends cousin works at the Hallmark store and told me they got some new smellie stickers in”)
I also had a subscription to Sticker Collector magazine, oh yeah!
You should check out this site, brought back tons of memories for me, man Lazer Blazers!
http://smurfwreck.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=80%27s%20Stickers
That picture made my eyes bleed, but that’s okay because the blood is rainbow colored, and it tastes like unicorns.
A BOOT TO THE HEAD!
I totally missed it. I missed it by seconds, too. Will my life ever be complete? Probably not. Will I get over it? I just don’t know.
Nooo, can’t get it to work. I wonder if the job’s firewall is preventing it.
I’m assuming it’s just keypresses (push the arrows)?
goddamn plageristic bastards! They are giving away all the best of diablo 3. Blizzard should have them drawn and quartered!