This easter egg is referring to the game StarCraft 2 by Blizzard. There are three fractions in StarCraft 2: Protoss, Terran and Zerg. Imagine the Zerg like aliens. Zergs have a unit called "the Zergling" which is a small creature that usually attacks buildings and enemy units in groups. If you have a lot of Zerglings and run to your opponents fast this can be called "a Zergling rush". There are also custom maps that you can play that are called Zerg Rush: You are in the middle of the map and Zerlings are streaming to your bade from all sides. You have to defend it like in the easter egg.
It is a nice touch how originally there are 6 zerglings coming out and others came in pair.<p>For anyone who never played Starcraft: zerglings are created in pair, two per egg and the maximum number of eggs are 3. A player who attempts to do a zergling rush wait for the first 3 eggs to be available, hatch them and subsequently make a new pair of zerglings as soon as a new egg is available.
I wonder how Google deal with all these little easter eggs from a code perspective. It's pretty impressive that they can add so much extra to a particular search term without it affecting the overall code quality.
I figured this would be easy to hack, and I was right:<p>1) Insert jQuery into the search results page by using this bookmarklet:
javascript:void(function(){if(!document.getElementById('jQscript')){var%20jQscript=document.createElement('script');jQscript.id='jQscript';jQscript.src='<a href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.0/jquery.min.js;document.documentElement.appendChild(jQscript);}}()" rel="nofollow">https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.0/jquery.mi...</a>);<p>2) use the console to execute the following, moving all zerglings to 250x250:
setInterval(function() {
$('.zr_zergling_container').css('left', '250px').css('top', '250px');
}, 50);<p>3) click away. #winning
APM counter is a nice touch as well :).<p>(APM stands for Actions Per Minute, where Actions in StarCraft are input events that do something, like selecting an unit or ordering it to attack. Professional players tend to have >200 APM).
Interestingly, I saw this comment on reddit yesterday that was a "leak" about this new easter egg.
(<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/stek5/what_little_easter_eggs_on_websites_do_you_love/c4gwdwd" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/stek5/what_little...</a> )
It's coincidental this post is popular because less than a week ago I decided to relive the past and install StarCraft: Brood War to play over LAN. It's still just as fun, but I forgot how easily the game consumes your time.