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April 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

Like a motorcycle

—devadutta @ 09:50

Humble beginnings of a now super popular site. Which?

P.S: Will auto mod in 3 days.

Cracked by: Anjul, badideabear, Bharath, Sujoy, Rogi, KK, rickde, Ananth, Manish Achuth and Sumanth Patlolla

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Kickstarter.com


Sunday, April 29, 2012

That's so meta.

—srikanth @ 10:46

(1) lead to (2). Story plz?

BTW, (2) eventually led to something else, which we’ve asked about before!

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, Manish Achuth, KK, rickde and Ananth

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Sara Winge (a VP at O’Reilly) jokingly wanted to host a “Foo Bar” - a bar for Friends Of O’Reilly. This eventually morphed into the creation of Foo Camp (Friends Of O’Reilly camp), an annual-ish conference. Eventually, a Foo Bar was actually hosted at one of the Foo camps.


Saturday, April 28, 2012

Fly, Robin, Fly

—srikanth @ 23:59

Two questions. (A) What is this? and (B) Why don’t we all have one already?!. OK, you don’t need to answer (B).

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Bharath, badideabear, Manish Achuth, KK, rickde, Ananth and Dibyo

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x-jet


Friday, April 27, 2012

The mouse ran up the clock

—srikanth @ 23:59

This heavily-edited image was a graphic used to depict something. What?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Anjul, Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, Manish Achuth, KK, rickde, Vishnu Prashanth, Ananth and Vishwas B Sharma

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Intel’s tick-tock model


Thursday, April 26, 2012

Loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Borderline non-geeky question. Identify the man in (1). In the tech world he’s popular for things like what you see in (2).

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, Manish Achuth, KK, Vishnu Prashanth, rickde, Dibyo, Ananth and Vishwas B Sharma

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Andrew Bell


Wednesday, April 25, 2012

kekeke

—srikanth @ 23:59

Yay more gaming questions!

A recent easter egg was a tribute to these. What are they?

(I think Rogi will hate me for these :D)

Cracked by: Anjul, Bharath, badideabear, bhargava, Rogi, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Sujoy, Manish Achuth, KK and Vishwas B Sharma

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Zerg Rush


Tuesday, April 24, 2012

That was TOO EASY!

—srikanth @ 23:59

This drink has become a symbol for where it was created. Where is it from?

Cracked by: Hitesh T S, Anjul, Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, Rogi, rickde, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Dibyo and Vishwas B Sharma

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Nuka Cola from Fallout 3


Monday, April 23, 2012

Ook ook eek!

—srikanth @ 23:59

The fundamental equation of what fictional thing?

Cracked by: Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, Rogi, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Manish Achuth, KK and Dibyo

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L-Space in discworld


Sunday, April 22, 2012

h4x

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s happening here?

Cracked by: Anjul, Bharath, badideabear, Sujoy, rickde, Ananth, Bipin Banavalikar, KK, Dibyo, wanderlust and Vishwas B Sharma

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MIT’s Green building which has been turned into a giant Tetris Screen. We can call it “Brick Game on Bricks :P “ – Quoting Vishwas


Saturday, April 21, 2012

Letters from tpb

—devadutta @ 15:51

Stamps of which “country” ?

Cracked by: Bharath, badideabear, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Sujoy, vinayaknp, rickde, Mayukh Bose, Hitesh T S, Dibyo and Vishwas B Sharma

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Principality of Sealand