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This article was published on April 9, 2012

Obama’s techies hide Easter egg in campaign website code


Obama’s techies hide Easter egg in campaign website code

This one is just for fun. Put down that pitchfork and have a chuckle. The Obama tech team, as spotted by the inimitable BuzzFeed, have put together a rather decent Easter egg in the code of their own website. First, the well-known Obama image:

And now, the lovely ASCII version from the site:

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Want to see it for yourself? Just head to BarackObama.com, right click, and hit ‘view source.’ That might not work on Macs. Figure it out for yourself.

It’s a simple, small thing, but it does feel nice to see that our politicians, or at least their staff, are not as un-savvy as we might expect. Let’s just hope he doesn’t call it, ‘the tweeter.’

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