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Sports fans heart pink unicorns!

by Leslie Katz
Unicorn screenshot

They came for the NASCAR news, they stayed for the unicorns.

(Credit: ESPN screenshot by Jennifer Guevin/CNET)

ZOMG! Sports lovers who also love glittery pink unicorns with rainbow manes and tails were so in luck earlier Monday. Entering the Konami cheat code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, enter) at the official ESPN Web site made the cutest little ponies EVER pop up all over the site. And more clicks led to more unicorns.

But that's not all. Visitors also got their headlines in hot pink and the Comic Sans font--enough adorable to make any 10-year-old girl forget about Hannah Montana.

It's a good thing we found out about this little bit of awesomeness before some meanies at ESPN appeared to disable the cheat. Luckily, we captured a couple of screenshots so we can plaster the unicorns all over our desktops.

Thanks, Kotaku, for sharing the magic.

Leslie Katz, senior editor of CNET's Crave, covers gadgets, games, and most other digital distractions. As a co-host of the CNET News Daily Podcast, she sometimes tries to channel Terry Gross. E-mail Leslie.
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by RNSII April 28, 2009 5:00 AM PDT
***?
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by He_And_Him_Studios April 28, 2009 7:30 AM PDT
Darn, I wanted to see it too.
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by UKStory1355 April 28, 2009 8:40 AM PDT
That was pretty awesome! Some of the old stories will still let the cheat happen.
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by eberdinis April 28, 2009 11:34 AM PDT
if you go to www.cornify.com and drag the bookmark link to your bookmark bar, you can click it and add ponies and pink comic sans to any website
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by JustAnotherStatistic April 28, 2009 6:25 PM PDT
Somebody at cnet goes on /b/......
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by RobertCube May 16, 2009 2:41 AM PDT
iPhone Konami via gestures:

Hoping this will tweak your interest at some novelty level. Entering the Konami Code for a website in iPhone?s MobileSafari, by using gestures?

http://milliondollarcu.be/iphone.php

Enter the Konami code by swiping the middle of the screen: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, and an Easter Egg is revealed (plus it?s dragable and rotatable)

iPhone/Gestures/Secret Konami codes/A ?Twitter? easter egg - this has it all.

Video of how it works can be seen at http://MillionDollarCu.be/blog/#20
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