Rogue Amoeba eliminates erstwhile eggs

It's no secret that Rogue Amoeba's developers blog in code. Each idea they present is actually a complicated metaphor — truth swaddled in figurative folds— allowing them to openly brag about their exploits to impress their peers while keeping the plebby masses in the dark.

The Mac Nose caught a whiff of what they've been up to, and the facts are most disturbing. In a February 24 post about hiring, company head Paul Kafasis slipped in the "factoid" that they'd hired employee "007," followed by a James Bond reference.

Insiders say the Amoebans have indeed gone rogue, giving themselves a license to bake. Since then, four competing products have seen their owners overcome by sugar comas Stranger still, any and all references to these victims and their products have been wiped from the Internet, a feat once considered impossible.

Friends of rocker-turned-programmer Jarvis Cocker say he was offered a cookie by Rogue Amoeba's Guy English. Known in dark alleys as "The Dapper Canadian," English coaxed Cocker into dissolving his nascent Cockersoft and removing all traces of its existence. Even Cocker's blog, wherein he spoke passionately of his love for bits and bytes, has been eradicated.

Rumor has it the Amoebans refer to perfecting baked treats as "playing Halo," and that this expression is common among members of the New Mac Illuminati. Keep your ears open the next time you're around a group of developers. They might be engineering more than you think.

(After re-examination of code-breaking practices, minor corrections have been made to the story).