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October 21, 2007

Punching each other

— devadutta @ 10:18 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192987104 )

Identify 1 and 2 and indicate the controversy between them
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Looks like it was a piece of cake for Dhruva , bs , Ganesh Prasad , iamniks , udupendra , alephnull , prasanth , sharath , Shakeel , Mahesh , Gammafunction , uma , Varun.M , yaksha , Shashank and Poornima.

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October 20, 2007

Around and around

— srikanth @ 10:34 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192901690 )

What is this an illustration of?

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Clues:
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Cracked by: udupendra , sharath , Varun.M , Poornima , Archana , bobo , Ganesh Prasad , sidsen , Prasad , Gammafunction , and rajeshv.

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October 19, 2007

Folklore

— srikanth @ 10:39 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192815593 )

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Question: what’s special about the comic? It’s chock full of clues, BTW.

Cracked by: devadutta , jayanth , bobo , udupendra , yaksha , BiGFooT , iamniks and Poornima.

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October 18, 2007

Duct tape: Holds the world together.

— srikanth @ 10:02 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192726944 )

Identify this TV nerd:
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Nothing can stop this man, as long as he has science on his side! With a seemingly never-ending supply of bright ideas, bad guys, and conveniently placed props, this dude has pulled of some extremely awesome “hacks”. For example, he
- once created a rocket launcher using fertilizer and some farming implements.
- unlocked a car’s remote locking system with a mobile phone.
- constructed an airgun from a telescope and an air horn

In short, this man’s genius knows no bounds. He’s more awesome than Chuck Norris and Rajanikanth together. Who is he?

Jayanth , Shashank , Dhruva , sharath , alephnull , Gammafunction , prasanth , iamniks , Prasad , Abhishek , shivathilak , uma , Poornima , bobo and nihit figured it out, using naught but google and wikipedia.

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October 17, 2007

Villan-pedia

— devadutta @ 11:07 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192644437 )

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Identify the logo in 1.

When 1 talks about Wikipedia, it shows wikipedia’s logo as 2.

What is wikipedia’s logo made to look like in 2?

Cracked by: srikanth , Dhruva , Varun.M , rajeshvj , Keerthi , Mahesh , sai_ganesh , prasanth , Goutham , shyam , iamniks , BiGFooT , Poornima , alephnull , Gammafunction , yaksha , nihit and Shashank.

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October 16, 2007

Spinning…

— srikanth @ 10:39 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192556349 )

Major thanks to Arjun Chennu for filming this and sending it to us. May he have many visitors on his blog, and may his nerdiness know no bounds.


Originally discovered by X, this device shows a phenomenon that has intrigued lots of scientists for ages. X suggested a theory based on Maxwell’s work, which was proved to be false. Schuster and Lebedev conducted lots of experiments to prove that many theories, including X’s, were bunk.

Einstein himself stepped in, and gave part of the reason. But his part wasn’t sufficient. The final part of the explanation was proposed by Osborne Reynolds, based on Maxwell’s updated work :-)

What is this object, and who is X ?

Cracked by: Poornima , devadutta , sridhar , 2ndratequizzer , Varun.M , prasanth , Keerthi , Ganesh Prasad , Mahesh Herle , Dhruva , iamniks , Keerthi Kiran M , shyam , yaksha , fsdgdsg , BiGFooT , alephnull , nihit , Shakeel , and Prasad.

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October 15, 2007

We had been here recently..

— devadutta @ 10:21 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192468879 )

Connect

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and

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Cracked by: srikanth , Dhruva , arjmage , prasanth , Gammafunction , Atul Mathew , alephnull , Varun.M , Tathagata Chatterjee , 2ndratequizzer , nihit , yaksha and prasad(late latif :) )

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October 14, 2007

R.I.P

— srikanth @ 10:16 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192382168 )

Many years ago, in universities far far away, strange devices with many blinkenlights (no clues there) were constantly being hacked to do peculiar things. Among those, one of the more interesting hacks was what we now call the Internet.

This giant organism used to run on some very clunky hardware. In fact, one of the central functions of the internet was once performed by a DEC LSI-11 (an evolution of the venerable PDP-11). This job was performed by a package of the LSI-11 and some specialized software that used to run on it, written by one of the grandest of the grand-old-hackers (some of his stuff helps us keep all our clocks together).

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The image you see above is an image of this package. The question: what was it called? Bonus: Who’s the grand old man?

Cracked by: Varun.M , Gammafunction , Dhruva , Tathagata Chatterjee , Abhishek , bs , yaksha and nihit.

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October 13, 2007

Eponymous question

— srikanth @ 10:18 am, GMT -0700 ( 1192295903 )

A little bit of explosives technology for today. The object in the picture below is a unique kind of explosive. It was typically used for clearing barbed wire fences in the battlefield. A series of these would be joined together, slid under the wire, and then the whole thing would be detonated. All this had to be done under fire, of course. What it is?

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Answered by: nihit , udupendra , Dhruva , fsdgdsg , bobo , bs , Ganesh Prasad , Varun.M , prasanth , 2ndratequizzer , rajeshvj , Swetha , jayanth , sridhar , iamniks , yaksha , Prasad  and Biki.

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October 12, 2007

Too simple to throw a hint

— devadutta @ 1:03 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1192219402 )

Who is this?( you have all the required information on the currency note :) )

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Ye gods. Large quantities of people got this one right… bs , pratap , zatar , Atul Mathew , jayanth , Gammafunction , Varun.M , Shakeel , prasanth , SidSen , shivani , Ganesh Prasad , piezocake , yaksha , 2ndratequizzer , bobo , Dhruva , iamniks , Goutham , udupendra , nihit , Prasad , BiGFooT  and sridhar got  this.

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