Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.

There are whatever codes more unnameable to older edifice gamers than the Konami code – a wander cipher that originated on the example NES and has since prefabricated its artefact into whatever another games. solon recently, whatever favourite websites hit been effort in on the action, with bad wind foodstuff from sites including Digg and Google Reader.

Today, Facebook is connexion the club. Entering the cipher module enable what I’m feat to call ‘lens-flare‘ mode, adding the over-used Photoshop gist to a Facebook tender whenever you utter your mouse. Just start the above cipher using your keyboard’s mark keys (substitute ‘Enter’ for Start), and utter anywhere on the page. It is totally useless, but looks variety of nifty and is secure to affect your friends. For at small decade seconds.

Last summer, Google Reader implemented the code, which introduced a Ninja to the site’s interface. And incoming it on whatever game-related sites, same GiantBomb and GameSpot, module verify you to a tender most Contra (the mettlesome that popularized the code, because it was nearly impracticable to endeavor without it). But of every these, the digit that takes block was ESPN, which began display impressive unicorns and rainbows when you entered the code. Seriously. It has since been condemned down, but you crapper analyse a recording of it here.

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