Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Does Laney Run OSXXI?

One of our readers emailed to tell us they found an Easter egg. In panel 38 of issue 1 you might notice that the network reflected in Laney's eye looks a heck of a lot like the Mac network icon. My good friend and coworker, Mark (who posts here every now and again), noticed this a few weeks ago so I've got to give him credit as being the first person to call me on it. I've been trying to hide a few Easter eggs here and there -- this one is probably the most obvious. I had already done the designs for the network and when it came time to do the reflection in Laney's eye it just kind of hit me. I stare at that Mac network icon all day at work and it seemed to work perfectly. But "no" Laney probably runs some kick-ass, custom open source OS, not a Mac OS. Where will Mac be in 2123? Will OSXXI be around? Certainly they will have run out of cool feline nicknames for their operating systems. My guess? They won't make computers or operating systems anymore, but the iHolo will be the hottest PHP (Personal Holograph Player) around. Their DRM will still suck and the battery will die in 18 months but everyone will have to have one.

1 Comments:

Blogger Mark said...

I can also be referred to as Paco's Cow-orker


I'd like to think Laney's OS is a vat grown one. Based in some respects in an self evolved structure, like the Chinese circuitry patterns found in one of the short stories in Bruce Sterlings book Zeitgeist. Wiring diagrams optimized through self aware scrawlings of digital cockroaches.

10:46 AM, September 28, 2005  

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