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2011

Friday, September 16, 2011

Pixel Worth

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

Late question is sooooper late. Will stay up longer.

Cracked by: Logik, jowens, Urthstripe, Bharath, Rogi, badideabear, Manish Achuth, username, KK, raklodramA, Aditya S, Thejas V R, Jayaprakash B R, Shwetha Maiya, Rahulk, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Amarendra Kumar, rickde, Siddarth Pai, Saurabh, rockstarinahurry, Mayukh Bose, shrik, Raghuvansh, Aparna, Dibyo, aditthya, KAMANASISH CHOWDHURY, v.chandrashekar, krithika rai, vishwanath, mankuTimma, Amit and Martin

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Million Dollar Homepage - Check this http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com


As long as it is blue..

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

Cracked by: sushma, jowens, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Jayaprakash B R, Siddarth Pai, Goyal, Nagendra U M, Thejas V R, Girish, Logik, Anjul, Bharath, Ananth, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, raklodramA, Rahulk, rickde, Urthstripe, Rahul Rajeev, thiru d gr8, s m muneer ali, shrik, Surya Narayanan, username, Kaustubh Mhatre, SV, Aditya S and Shwetha Maiya

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BSOD on Win8


Wednesday, September 14, 2011

So, not the Bunny™ then?

—srikanth @ 23:59

ID the bot in the pic please. It was just in the news announcing an attempt to do something unheard off pretty soon :)

Cracked by: Thejas V R, Anonymous, username, shrik, Amarendra Kumar, Logik, Manish Achuth, KK, jowens, shivathilak, badideabear, raklodramA, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Dibyo, s m muneer ali, rickde, Aditya S, Ananth, krudebox, grey_matters and Bharath

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The Panasonic Evolta. Panasonic just announced that the Evolta is going to try and run the Ironman Triathlon :-o


Tuesday, September 13, 2011

You win some you lose some

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s happening here?

Cracked by: Amarendra Kumar(2), Manish Achuth(2), Thejas V R, username, shrik, Logik, KK, jowens, badideabear, Rogi, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Dibyo, rickde, Aditya S, Ananth, krudebox, Girish and Bharath

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John Preskill shows off the book he won in a bet against Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne (not in pic) about the black hole information paradox


Monday, September 12, 2011

R.I.P

—devadutta @ 19:19

Guest question from %gqh% shrik. Thanks Saar!

Tribute to a great man. Identify.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, KK, username, Nagendra U M, Aditya S, raklodramA, Amarendra Kumar, badideabear, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, jinz, Thejas V R, shrik, Dibyo, rickde, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Saurabh, Logik, Shwetha Maiya and Girish

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Michael Hart of Gutenberg Project. R.I.P.


Sunday, September 11, 2011

NO!!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Fun question.

What is this?

Cracked by: KK, Urthstripe, username, Aditya S, Raghuvansh, grey_matters, Amarendra Kumar, badideabear, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahulk, Thejas V R, shrik, Dibyo, rickde, Ananth, thiru d gr8, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Logik, Saurabh, rockstarinahurry, Anjul, Shwetha Maiya and krudebox

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Moeny shredding alarm clock which will well, shred your money if the alarm isn’t turned off in time. –krudebox


Saturday, September 10, 2011

This is not a game..

—devadutta @ 23:59

Though it shares it’s name with one.

Simple… Identify the gizmo.

Guest question from %gqh% Rogi.

Hint: Think about four different color buttons.

Cracked by: username, Aditya S, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, badideabear, Amarendra Kumar, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, shrik, rickde, Ananth, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Saurabh and Shwetha Maiya

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Edmund Berkeley’s Simon


Friday, September 9, 2011

Luminous

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from %gqh% Rahulk. Thanks Sire!

Connect

Cracked by: username, Aditya S, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, Amarendra Kumar, badideabear, Rahulk, shrik, Thejas V R, Dibyo, rickde, KK, Ananth, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, Bharath, Rahul Rajeev, dhruv, Shwetha Maiya and Logik


Thursday, September 8, 2011

Fun Fun Fun!

—srikanth @ 23:59

It was either named after (1) or (2). What?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, username, shrik, Rogi, aditthya, Dibyo, Thejas V R, KK, jowens, raklodramA, rickde, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Aditya S, Ananth, badideabear, Siddarth Pai, Saurabh, grey_matters, Rahulk, Advaith and Shwetha Maiya

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Erlang –


Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Ah so.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the animal in (1) [two examples] that became famous because of (2). Pseudobonus points for full story. Points will be given for the ‘original’ name as well as any decently close approximations!


Cracked by: Raghuvansh, KK, Saurabh, udupendra, username, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Rogi, aditthya, Dibyo, Thejas V R, grey_matters, jowens, raklodramA, rickde, Bharath, Aditya S, badideabear, mankuTimma, Siddarth Pai, Rahulk, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya

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Heikegani were used by Carl Sagan in his popular science television show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage as an example of unintentional artificial selection