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July 2012

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

I wonder if they anticipated Rule 34.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s the connection? Autoraja will be satisfied if you give him what’s blanked out.

Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Jayaprakash B R, Dibyo, Ananth, Supritha Maiya, sandeep bhat, rohanquizzer, KK and vinayaknp

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TimBL(2) allegedly named the prototype of the web that he built ENQUIRE as a reference to the (at the time) famous book Enquire Within Upon Everything.


Big brother is watching you

—srikanth @ 23:59

Connect Chilean politician and British computer scientist to weird room:

Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Shyam, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, rickde, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo, Ananth, raklodramA, mankuTimma and rohanquizzer

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Salvador Allende(1) and Stafford Beer (2) built this computerized governance mechanism called Cybersyn (3) to “run” all of Chile. The whole thing eventually fell apart, but nevertheless one of the more quirky and interesting overlaps between computing and politics.


Monday, July 2, 2012

Not as frightening as the furby at least

—srikanth @ 23:59

This device was all the rage a few years ago among the hobbyist community. Identify!

Cracked by: Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Don42, Bipin Banavalikar, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, rickde, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo, Ananth, raklodramA, mankuTimma and rohanquizzer

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The Chumby - an open source web reader that worked off RSS feeds to give you the latest information.


Sunday, July 1, 2012

Bad juju

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is/was the controversy?

Cracked by: Logik, Rogi, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Don42, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, rickde, Dibyo, Ananth, raklodramA, mankuTimma, rohanquizzer and Bipin Banavalikar

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Michael Arrington from Techcrunch went into an agreement with Singapore based company Fusion Garage to create a tabled called the Crunchpad. Fusion Garage then went ahead and made plans to release it on their own, causing all sorts of issues.