Are you a MacBook or MacBook Pro owner who recently installed Apple's Keyboard Firmware Upgrade 1.0? It turns out that the update brings more than the first keypress after the machine has been sitting idle. It also brings a some embedded song lyrics and a quote from 1984!

This tip was submitted by an eagle-eyed reader with too much time on his hands and confirmed by, well, us. There are apparently two executables that come as part of the keyboard updater package. The goods are located in HIDFirmwareUpdaterTool: open it in a text editor of some sort and search for "sand dunes."

The first line, "If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages here and there," is from the song "Old Cape Cod" (iTunes link) by Patti Page. It's quite a nice song actually. And Cape Cod is also pretty nifty. Good seafood.

The second line, creepily recounted in all caps and no punctuation, reads "WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." This, of course, is a line from the book 1984 by George Orwell—more specifically, it is the Party's slogan in the book and the reasoning behind the perpetual war.

Apple does have an unusual "thing" for 1984, as the company's historic Macintosh commercial is based around it. But what does the whole hidden message mean? Steve Jobs likes his clam chowder with a side of RDF ignorance? Lobster and dictatorship go well with a perfectly-paired wine? Cape Cod is Oceania?

We'll refrain from any further speculation. Battle it out in the comments.