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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by bingaling on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @06:59PM (#4610058) 

  # curl -s http://www.barackobama.com | head -30 | tail -24
  <!--
                .:+uuuuuuuuuuu+:.
            ./sssssssssssssssssssss/-
         ./aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/.
       .+uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu+.
     `/sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss/
    `aaaaaaaaaaaaa:-`       `-:aaaaaaaaaaaaa.
   `uuuuuuuuuuu/.               ./uuuuuuuuuuu.
   sssssssssss.                   .sssssssssss`
  -aaaaaaaaaa`                     `+aaaaaaaaa:
  uuuuuuuuuu.                       `uuuuuuuuuu
  ssssss-```                         ```-ssssss
  `       ....aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....       `
  ...+uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu+...
  -ssssssssssssss+//-```                  `````
   aaaaa+/:-`            ...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
   `/-``        ..::uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu.
          .:/+sssssssssssssssss-```      ````
       /aaaaaaaaaaaaa+/:-``       ...aaaaaa
       .+uuuuuuu/:-``        .-:/+uuuuuuu-
         ./s/-`         -:+sssssssssss+.
                    -/aaaaaaaaaaaaa+-`
                .:+usausausausa+:-
  -->
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by winestock on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @06:35PM (#4609969)
I'll spoil it for anyone who hasn't figured it out. It's in the page source. In the beginning of the page, after the Doctype string and the lines for older versions of Internet Explorer, there is an ASCII art image of the Obama "O" logo.

Edit: And it's done with the letters u, s, a, and just a few kinds of punctuation marks. (Thanks to stephanerangaya.)

Further edit: No obvious easter eggs in the source of the Mitt Romney campaign page. I am disappoint.

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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by stephanerangaya on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @06:34PM (#4609966)
It's funny how they did it using the letters USA
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by egeozcan on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @06:39PM (#4609989)
And my mind somehow interpreted it as "ASUS". Weird.
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by Roelven on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @06:39PM (#4609987)
Woah good catch, didn't even notice that in the first glance!
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by wtracy on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @06:48PM (#4610022)
Off-topic, but I just discovered that Safari does not have a "view source" command. It's like Apple is trying to lose my respect. :-/
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by veidr on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @07:05PM (#4610077)
They decided recently this is a developer feature, so you have to enable the "Show Develop menu" feature (in the "Advanced" pane of Safari's preferences window).

This irritated me at first, but then I recalled the time my dad (accidentally) viewed a website's source, and how perplexing it was to him.

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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by DanBC on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @06:53PM (#4610033)
Can you turn it on by going to Safari -> Preferences -> Advanced and then checking "Show Develop Menu"?

Also off topic: I don't know how to turn off image loading in Chrome (on Mac). It's like Google is trying to lose my respect. :-/

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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by wtracy on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:17PM (#4610303)
Okay, I feel better knowing that it's one configuration change away. The Internet had lead me to believe that I needed to download a plugin to make this work. :-/

That said, their fancy source navigation tool breaks the formatting of the ascii art. :-(

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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by greyfade on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @07:51PM (#4610217)
Menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy -> Content Settings -> "Do not show any images"
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by nthitz on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @06:56PM (#4610044)
First he wastes my tax dollars and now my bandwidth?!

/sarcasm

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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by cyber on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @07:04PM (#4610073)
This. But without the "/sarcasm". :)
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by cyber on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @09:18PM (#4610479)
Looks like a few of you are a bit politically sensitive! ;)
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by katanca on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @10:37PM (#4610636)
I do not think that it was Obama who coded it so it is kind of irrelevant to me.
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Re:Hidden ascii art in page source of BarackObama.com by wprater on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @07:08PM (#4610083)
trying to win over the geeks now.
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