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2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Clickity Click!

—devadutta @ 21:42

Illustration making a fairly obvious comparison. What is blocked out here?

Cracked by: Thejas V R, username, Rogi, raklodramA, Amarendra Kumar, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Nagendra U M, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, Girish, Urthstripe, Ananth, jowens, Rahul Rajeev, Bharath, Rahulk, shrik, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Shwetha Maiya, Logik, byslexia, KK and Aditya S

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Facebook


Batman! No, wait.

—devadutta @ 16:39

Famous car. Famous person. Many many stories.

Who does this car belong to?

Notice how it does not have a name plate? Yes. There is a story for that.

(I had this question drafted and saved for tomorrow, but I am posting it early for a reason)

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Rogi, Dibyo, Girish, Ananth, jowens, username, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Goyal, Rahul Rajeev, Thejas V R, badideabear, shrik, Jayaprakash B R, Siddarth Pai, sandeep bhat, raklodramA, Anonymous, Rahulk, Jinz, vishwanath, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Aditya S, Amarendra Kumar, Shwetha Maiya, KK, mankuTimma, Bipin Banavalikar and Raghuvansh

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Steve Jobs. R.I.P.


Tuesday, October 4, 2011

ATMega Fun

—devadutta @ 22:00

Super famous hardware. Especially in recent times among makers and hackers.

Identify.

Cracked by: badideabear, KK, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Rahul Rajeev, Dibyo, Aditya S, username, Girish, Manish Achuth, Rogi, jowens, shrik, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, Rahulk, vishwanath, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Amarendra Kumar and mankuTimma


Monday, October 3, 2011

Bad breath?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Key part of what company/product’s logo?

Cracked by: badideabear, KK, username, raklodramA, Rogi, Amarendra Kumar, Thejas V R, Rahul Rajeev, Dibyo, Aditya S, Girish, Manish Achuth, jowens, shrik, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, Rahulk, vishwanath, Bharath and Sumanth Patlolla

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This is the logo of Gumstix a company that produces a line of single-board linux based computers that are each the size of a stick of gum.


Sunday, October 2, 2011

Glowing White.Literally.

—devadutta @ 23:59

Tell us what this radioactive creme was used for

Hint:

Cracked by: Rosh, Amarendra Kumar, KK, badideabear, Amit, Rogi, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Anonymous, Rahul Rajeev, Dibyo, sandeep bhat, Aditya S, username, Girish, Manish Achuth, jowens, Jayaprakash B R, thirudgr8, shrik, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, Rahulk, vishwanath, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, mankuTimma and Shwetha Maiya

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Toothpaste!


Saturday, October 1, 2011

Wait till Bezos sees this one...

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s blanked out, and who wrote this letter?

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Girish, Rogi, badideabear, KK, Thejas V R, Rahul Rajeev, username, Amarendra Kumar, Aditya S, Ananth and raklodramA

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Mathematics Inc - a fictional company that EW Dijkstra created to commercialize mathematics. This document describes his difficulties in trying to take a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis and get royalties from it.


Friday, September 30, 2011

Where am I?!

—srikanth @ 23:59

Seemingly simple. Identify the place, and its (more?) famous fictional counterpart.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, KK, Rahul Rajeev, raklodramA, rickde, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Manish Achuth, Girish, username, Thejas V R, shrik, jowens, Bharath, Aditya S, Amarendra Kumar, Martin, badideabear and Rogi

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Oink!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA. Thanks sire!

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Logik, Vivek, Raghuvansh, KK, raklodramA, rickde, Ananth, Sanador, Sumanth Patlolla, thiru d gr8, Rahulk, Manish Achuth, Prasad, Rogi, username, Rahul Rajeev, Thejas V R, shrik, jowens, Bharath, Aditya S, Goyal, Amarendra Kumar, Anjul, sandeep bhat, badideabear, wanderlust and Mayukh Bose

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Angry Birds theme park in China


Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Best way to learn Venn diagrams yet.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the lady. Clues are in the picture, of course :)

Cracked by: KK, username, raklodramA, jowens, Thejas V R, rickde, grey_matters, Amarendra Kumar, Aditya S, shrik, Ananth, Girish, badideabear, wanderlust, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik and Raghuvansh

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Jessica Hagy, author of the awesome webcomic Indexed.


Tuesday, September 27, 2011

answer = function() { alert ("ha!"); }

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect to a “hot” 2011 technology

Cracked by: KK, username, jowens, Rogi, rickde, raklodramA, Amarendra Kumar, vishwanath, mankuTimma, shrik, Ananth, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Rahulk, Rahul Rajeev, Shwetha Maiya, badideabear and site

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Rayn Dahl, creator of Node.js which uses Chrome’s V8 engine.