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June 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011

<avoids obvious Portal joke>

—srikanth @ 23:59

Sitters ahoy. What’s the story?

Cracked by: wanderlust, Ananth, Rogi, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, grey_matters, dhruv, raklodramA, sandeep bhat, KK, username, Bharath, Thejas V R, D’Anconia, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Jayaprakash B R, anurag, Rahulk, Sai Subramanian, Siddarth Pai, udupendra, Nagendra U M, Goyal, shrey, Ebzhent and Swarun

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The Internet Explorer team in Microsoft sends the Mozilla Firefox team a cake to celebrate every release! These are a few of those cakes.


Pirates of the Silicon Fen?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the show that these images would connect to:

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, raklodramA, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, shrik, arpit mehta, udupendra, grey_matters, Pawankumar Hegde and dineshk

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BBC’s 2009 show ‘Micro Men’ or ‘Syntax Era’, a show about the ‘war’ between Sir Clive Sinclair of Sinclair computers and Chris Curry of Acorn.


Saturday, June 18, 2011

He has the best pet ever...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Scientists found this mushroom living under the sea. And because of its appearance they named it… what?

Cracked by: shrey, Raghuvansh, Ananth, dineshk, Urthstripe, Manish Achuth, KK, anurag, grey_matters, Goyal, Sai Subramanian, raklodramA, Nagendra U M, jins, Bharath, username, Vegus Sixx, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Jayaprakash B R, shrik, Swarun, Manoj Venkat, thiru d gr8, Siddarth Pai, arpit mehta, udupendra and Rogi

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The so-called Spongiforma squarepantsii. I have no words. More details here.


Friday, June 17, 2011

100 Degree C.

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who invented this? What is it called?

Video link

Ladies and Gents,
Y U NO SENDING US GUEST KOSCHANS?
MAIL IT TO [email protected]
KTHXBAI.

Cracked by: shrey, Rogi, vkamath, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, username, shrik, anurag, Thejas V R and udupendra

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Hero’s engine or the Aeliophile


Thursday, June 16, 2011

Scan me

—devadutta @ 23:59

What it is?

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, Dibyo, Urthstripe, username, Manish Achuth, Goyal, anurag, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, arpit mehta, shrik, Raghuvansh, thiru d gr8, Thejas V R, Bharath, bullshitesque, sandeep bhat, grey_matters, raklodramA, jins, Swarun and Anjul

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Quoting Swarun “Royal Dutch Mint coin with QR code to commemorate 100 years of the mint.”


Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Disobedience?

—devadutta @ 23:59

1 is supposedly the earliest known instance of this type of “protest”. 2 is the most popular one in recent times. What are we talking about?

For bonus fake cookie points, identify 1 and 2.

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Dibyo, grey_matters, Nagendra U M, Goyal, anurag, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Urthstripe, sandeep bhat, Siddarth Pai, Mo, Manish Achuth, username, Martin and thiru d gr8

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Hacktivism - Hacking some page as a protest


Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Daily grind...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Not-so-obscure meme question time :)

Identify the man, the series, and the company :)

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Ananth, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Sai Subramanian, Bharath, anurag, jins, username, Thejas V R, Goyal, badideabear, Martin, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, s m muneer ali, Dirty-i, thiru d gr8, Rogi, Anjul, dineshk and Shwetha Maiya

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Tom Dickson, famous protagonist of famous ad series ‘Will It Blend’ by now-famous blender company BlendTec. Incidentally he’s blending the iPhone 4 in this ad.


Monday, June 13, 2011

Hero

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple question. Whose painting is this?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Thejas V R, Ananth, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, username, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, KK, Sai Subramanian, grey_matters, Bharath, v.chandrashekar, anurag, badideabear, Siddarth Pai, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, s m muneer ali, Dirty-i, Rogi, Anjul, dineshk, Goyal, Nanda, Sridhar C, Shwetha Maiya, jins and arpit mehta

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Nicolaus Copernicus


Sunday, June 12, 2011

I TXT YOU

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Obscure meme question time.

Which meme traces its roots back to this comic strip?

Hint: One of the faces above goes into this body

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Rogi, Urthstripe, Ananth, Raghuvansh, badideabear, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, Martin, raklodramA, Thejas V R, username, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, jins, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters and Goyal

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Y U NO KNOW THE ANSWER?


Saturday, June 11, 2011

OMG

—srikanth @ 23:59

Sorry for the continued delays folks. Please rest assured we will try to get back to normal schedules as soon as possible.

(1) was a famous observatory. The ‘pattern’ of detection was as in (2), which led to the name.

What is (1) called?

Cracked by: shrik, udupendra, Rogi, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Bharath, raklodramA, username, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters, Dirty-i and Goyal

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The Fly’s Eye detector, at Utah. Notable for many things, but most probably for the OMG particle.