Greetings, fellow time-travelers! Arbitrary as all conventions may be, we’re quite attached to them. And, in the spirit of the season, here’s wishing you a very happy new year! We hope you’ve enjoyed the ride so far in the 4th dimension, and will continue to do so over this notch on the time axis.
We’ve had a blast racking our brains (and Wikipedia :-) for those crazy little details that make things so much more interesting. From music to sci-fi, we’ve managed to land on quite a few strange lands and plan to touch on many more in 2008. We’ve barely scratched the surface of geekery.
Now, on to the regular schedule.
Today is another interesting occasion. Udupendra has scored a 100 points on BoiledBeans! Congratulations! This occasion definitely deserves a w00t. To celebrate this century, here’s a perfectly-formed guest question from this King of Nerds - all hail! (The Q came to us complete with post-title clue… Guess you’ve been spending lots of time here dude :-).
Identify this scientist (who has a unit named after him):
And connect him to this album cover:
Cracked by: madhur, bs, bobo, Dibyo, Keerthi Kiran M, Rohan, gammafunction, Ranjana Ninan, jayanth, prasanth, Prasad, nishas thambi, Tathagata Chatterjee, nishansolo and shashank.
madhur, bs, bobo, Dibyo, Keerthi Kiran M, Rohan, gammafunction, Ranjana Ninan, jayanth, prasanth, Prasad, nishas thambi, Tathagata Chatterjee, nishansolo, shashank and udupendra
Show Answer
The scientist in the picture is Emile Baudot (of “Baud rate” fame) . The second picture is the cover of Coldplay’s album X&Y. The strange glyphs on the cover are, supposedly, the values X&Y written in Baudot Code.
