An Easter Egg in Google Reader

Open Google Reader

Type “up up down down left right left right b a”

(source) (source’s source)

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Spoiler alert!

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A ninja will appear behind your listings. But one thing my sources didn’t mention, even in one source with screen shots, is that all of the “new items” change to 30. In other words, I had 30 new items in each feed. When you do the code again, the ninja disappears and the new item counts reverted to their original numbers.