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I ran the source through jsbeautifier.org yielding this: http://gist.github.com/351418

Some fun stuff:

* there is a MUD

* find kitten launches a mini-game

* apt-get moo

* i read the source code

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It's actually on GitHub, obfuscation-free (and linked from the site): http://github.com/chromakode/xkcdfools

No need to read the source to know that these would work as expected:

* make me a sandwich

* sudo make me a sandwich

For the MUD either light your lamp and go south twice or go south then...

javascript:Adventure.status.alive = true;Adventure.rooms['666'].exits = {'south': 11};void(0);

then go south again. Your choice :).

I was all excited and boggled by the idea of there being a MUD, but it's actually a (small) text adventure - not Multi User as far as I can see.

Doesn't that spoil the fun of hunting for the Easter eggs?

Hunting for Easter eggs on a CLI with no "help" command? Grab a dictionary, and start trying all 1, 2, and 3 word combinations, and let me know what you find. I can wait.

Apparently not according to xkcd. Type

  i read the source code

funny, I didn't see anything that would log attempted commands. I was expecting a comic displaying a graph aggregating attempted commands, perhaps relating to a failed relationship of his.

They do log them, via a GET request to /unixkcd/missing

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