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2011

Friday, March 4, 2011

Orbit Me

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from %gqh% sidsen. After a long long time. Thank you sire!

The text in the image reads(approximately :) ) The gentlemen above were nominated but did not make it. The mooning characters below did. What would they collectively be known as.

Apologies for the delay folks.

Cracked by: shrik, vinayaknp, udupendra, Rogi, jowens, Raghuvansh, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, Rahulk, dineshk, Ananth and Bharath

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The Galilean Moons! Galileo first proposed the name Medicea Sidera (“theMedicianstars”), honouring the four Medici brothers: Cosimo, Francesco, Carlo, and Lorenzo.


You can text and "drive" this car?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Sitter!

Identify

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, vinayaknp, Vinay Nair Karath, shrik, SYED MOHAMMED MUNEER ALI, Bharath, Anjul, Rogi, dineshk, Raghuvansh, jowens, lanu, Qbrain, krikkrak, udupendra, Ananth, Sandesh and Thejas V R

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Google’s awesome self driving cars.


Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Take it higher.

—srikanth @ 23:59

You are likely to know the three on the right. Who’s the chap on the left (circled)?

Cracked by: Bharath, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, KK, dineshk, Abinash, jowens, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, raklodramA, Vrashabh, lanu, Qbrain, vinayaknp, krudebox, Raghuvansh, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, Siddarth Pai, SYED MOHAMMED MUNEER ALI, v.chandrashekar, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya

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Roger Mayer, a sound engineer. He is responsible for creating several electric guitar effects that have come to define the “sound of rock”, so to speak.


Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Tape them together!

—devadutta @ 22:51

Identify the white object in 1 and connect to 2

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Thejas V R, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, vinayaknp, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Manish Achuth, KK, krudebox, jowens, Bharath, dineshk, Ananth and Mo

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A Gömböc, that comes back to its upright position no matter how you place it (on a flat surface). A turtle’s shell is shaped up like a Gömböc (not all turtles), which helps it get back on feet when it is flipped over!


Monday, February 28, 2011

Elementary.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What did this supposedly inspire?

Cracked by: udupendra, Vijayaraghavan, Riyaz Usman, Rogi, Jassim, Chirag, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Bharath, vinayaknp, Raghuvansh, shardul, Sanador, puneet_k, Siddarth Pai, KK, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Mo, srinivasan, lanu, Thejas V R, Dibyo, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, S M MUNEER ALI, Manoj Venkat, krudebox, vishal golcha and Qbrain

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The IBM Thinkpad! Apparently, IBM had a campaign in the 90s that involved the word “Think!”. As part of this campaign they released a series of notepads within IBM for employees which just had the word “Think” on them. Hence, when the tablet/notebook/laptop was eventually announced, that was named the ThinkPad.


Sunday, February 27, 2011

Hushed voices.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What connects?

Cracked by: Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Manish Achuth, udupendra, jowens, vinayaknp, Riyaz Usman, puneet_k, shrik, appu s, dineshk, Dibyo and Thejas V R

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Google Earth Outreach - Google’s program to support non-profits that are trying increase global awareness. Check out the Outreach showcase and .KMLs!


Saturday, February 26, 2011

Intelligent

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify this Turing award winner who happens to be a Nobel laureate too.

Cracked by: jayanth, jowens, vinayaknp, Abhishek Varughese, jins, raklodramA, Rogi, shrik, Riyaz Usman, Siddarth Pai, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Dibyo, rohanquizzer, Manish Achuth, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Raghuvansh, Muthu sundaresan, KK, s m [email protected], v.chandrashekar, dineshk, udupendra, lanu, krudebox, Thejas V R, puneet_k, srinivasan, ElatedSipun010, Jassim, Shwetha Maiya and Mo

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Polymath genius Herbert Simon. More


Friday, February 25, 2011

Magic Smoke

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Sitter for the weekend!

Reverse chronological order of the 3 latest releases. What are we talking about?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Rogi, Bharath, jowens, jins, Riyaz Usman, krudebox, vinayaknp, dineshk, shrik, Dibyo, lanu, Anonymous, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, udupendra and Thejas V R

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Debian releases. Simple :)


Thursday, February 24, 2011

Woodcuts. Everywhere.

—srikanth @ 23:59

The guy is largely irrelevant to the question. Identify the service that he is showing off on his t-shirt.

Cracked by: Rogi, Raghuvansh and jowens

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Tim O’Reilly’s Global Network Navigator - a very early web portal of sorts that was purchased by AOL.


Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Slow software on fast hardware

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who connects

Late question is ridiculously late. Sorry folks :)

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, shrik, dineshk, vinayaknp, Rogi, jins, Nanda, Siddarth Pai, KK, Ananth, jowens, Riyaz Usman, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Bharath, Logik and krudebox

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The awesome Niklaus Wirth.