Delicious Library Easter Eggs … 
I just scanned my little library using
Delicious Library and it appears there are a few easter eggs. You can already find them mentioned on several blogs. Every time you scan a certain product anew it will read the title and sometimes a strange voice intones for …
- any Star Wars related book, movie or game: "I am your father"
- Harry Potter books: "Voldemort"
- Steven Hawkings "The universe in a nutshell" even seems to intone Hawkings saying "Did I tell you about my Hawking radiation? It was named after me ..."
I will not go on about the usefulness of such a piece of software for private libraries, but it was a lot of fun. Most books are automatically found on
Amazon and the information it retrieves is sometimes quite interesting. For example there are a few books we definitely bought from the bargain table show up with a current value of around 60 EUR.
Update
The easter egg information is buried in the binary of the software. All the voices are definitely spoken by MacOS X's own speech syntesis.
Below is what "strings Delicious\ Library" finds:
Harry Potter
Voldemort
Star Wars
I AM YOUR FATHER!
Hawking
Did I tell you about my Hawking radiation? It was named after me. Hawking
radition is the emitted when one of a pair of particles is sucked into a
black hole and the other particle escapes.
If you are really into programming and ways to make really good software, read this interview with one of the makers of Delicious Library at
Drunken Blog.
