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October 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Stop, look and listen dino

—devadutta @ 21:30

Connect

180px-CryolophosaurusDB 220px-Elvis_Presley_1970

Here’s a close-up that will be useful

180px-Cryolophosaurus_jconway

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, Raghuvansh, krudebox, madhur, sidsen, xtremevarun, djds4rce, AC, shrik, Debasish, raklodramA, Rogi, udupendra, joe, nishansolo, Ananth, Logik, Champakali, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, Ramkumar, Mihir Rege, yuvnesh, junmohan and Sourya

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Quoting djd4ce


Early to bed, early to ...

—srikanth @ 21:30

What controversy connects:

Cracked by everyone.

Dibyo, krudebox, Chinmaya U.Holla, udupendra, Rogi, shrik, Logik, sidsen, Mo and nishansolo


Sunday, October 11, 2009

It's Ear not Ir

—devadutta @ 21:30

This guy who looks very happy with a cat(not his, I guess) here, ironically has a dead cat with tire marks on it as the icon/logo for his super famous freeware software. Which software?

me2

Here’s the logo IrfanView_Logo

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, emrohit, raklodramA, shenoyvarun86, krudebox, Chinmaya U.Holla, Rogi, Amarendra Kumar, xtremevarun, shrik, Dibyo, yaksha, prateekbhatt, Debasish, Suhel, Keerthi Kiran M, varuns88, joe, jackandlagoon, Vaishnavi, Ananth, Logik and Martin


Saturday, October 10, 2009

Yes or no?

—srikanth @ 22:02

Identify the device and its famous inventor.

Some other inventions of the same famous chap:

Hint, he’s not famous for his inventions.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rogi and shrik


Friday, October 9, 2009

Just a sec

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple one for the weekend

Connect and tell us whats missing

300px-Lord_Kelvin_photograph225px-Ampere_Andre_1825

150px-Candleburning180px-Close-up_of_mole

Cracked by: udupendra, Rogi, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, Raghuvansh, prateekbhatt, Logik, Dibyo, shrik, sidsen, Ananth, shenoyvarun86 and xtremevarun

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Kelvin, Ampere, Candela, Mole, Meter, Kilogram and Second – The basic SI units.


Thursday, October 8, 2009

Photoshop This!

—devadutta @ 22:33

Guest question from Karthik (do you have a blog dude?). Thanks a lot!

Whats happening here?

ps2

another example

ps1

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, shrik, shenoyvarun86, Rogi, RahulN, krudebox, insufferablejake, Yadhu, Logik, Ananth, wanderlust and emrohit

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PhotoSketch takes your sketch and makes an image out of it. Currently, no online demo is available, but you can get its source code and rig one up yourself :)


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The pen is mightier?

—srikanth @ 21:30

Rabid fans of recently-released much-anticipated game. What game?

Cracked by yeveryone.

Raghuvansh, shrik, Rogi, krudebox, Dibyo, udupendra and HuhaBanda


Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Islander

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect

dolphinmustangtiger

mantishoppermerlin

ladybird

Apologies for the delay folks. We are working to resolve this out of phase posting and we hope to get back on schedule asap. Question will be up longer. As usual.. (well.. almost :) )

Only Dibyo, Rogi and sidsen got it! Awesome!


Monday, October 5, 2009

Stop following me!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from Logik. Thanks dude!

Identify the rickroller.
1 is the conventional way.
2 is the method that he co-created.

rickroll

  1. bucket_1 2. bucket_2

and oh.. question will be up much longer.

Cracked by: Logik, Raghuvansh, Rogi, Dibyo, shrik, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, sidsen, Yadhu, insufferablejake, Sourya, Vaishnavi and anupcshan


Sunday, October 4, 2009

Sad :-(

—srikanth @ 21:30

English philosopher and member of parliament below, coined a term that is very popular in the world of sci-fi. Who, what term?

Clues:

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Dibyo, krudebox, sidsen, Rogi, nishansolo, shrik, achyuth, Logik, Goutham DL, Praveen, insufferablejake, udupendra, shenoyvarun86, Yadhu and byslexia