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Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

2012

Sunday, December 2, 2012

DONT PICK UP THE PHONE!

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this visualization depicting?

Cracked by: rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar, Jayaprakash B R, s m muneer ali and Ananth

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This is a frequency-spectrum visualization of the tones involved in a dial-up connection, taken from Oona Raisanen’s blogpost.


The 8 bits of winter.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify (PS: look closely)

Cracked by: Goyal, rickde, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, manas, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar, s m muneer ali and Ananth

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The fictional continent of Westeros (from A Song of Ice and Fire), recreated in minecraft by the amazing people at www.westeroscraft.com


Friday, November 30, 2012

Can we hold him responsible for obesity worldwide ?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Who’s the guy?

Cracked by: Ananth and Rogi

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Robert Adler, the inventor of the TV remote control


Thursday, November 29, 2012

Another Simpson Reference

—devadutta @ 17:07

Identify and connect

Cracked by: jayanth, Vishnu Prashanth, Rogi, KK, Supritha Maiya, rickde, Logik, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Mayukh Bose, s m muneer ali, ady1995555, Ananth and Bipin Banavalikar

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Apple Lisa, named after Lisa Brennan-Jobs in 2. Apparently Jobs initially swore that Lisa was not her daughter, but then embraced her.


Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Beep.. Beep..? Take this!

—devadutta @ 00:57

USA’s answer to the Soviet. What is this?

Cracked by: KK, Rogi, raklodramA, rickde, Supritha Maiya, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Shubhang, Sumanth Patlolla, Mayukh Bose, jayanth, Logik, s m muneer ali and Bipin Banavalikar

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Explorer 1, USA’s first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.


Tuesday, November 27, 2012

I see your tin foil hats and I raise you this..

—devadutta @ 15:14

What is this?

Cracked by: raklodramA, KK, Ananth, Rogi, rickde, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, jayanth, Logik and s m muneer ali

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Goggles that block face detection algorithms from working. Sweet!


Monday, November 26, 2012

Impossible to imagine a version of this on my wrist..

—devadutta @ 22:41

What is this?

BTW, same advantage with Arabic as with Russian.

Cracked by: Supritha Maiya, Bipin Banavalikar, rickde, Manish Achuth, Logik, raklodramA, KK, Ananth, Dibyo, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla and s m muneer ali

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Candle Clock designed by Al Jazari in 12th Century. Nice.


Sunday, November 25, 2012

Final Frontier

—devadutta @ 22:35

Good thing about Russian post-card questions: I do not have to blur out any text.. because no one here can read it! (Or, am I wrong?)

Who is he?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, bhargava, Supritha Maiya, Raghu, Jayaprakash B R, rickde, Logik, raklodramA, KK, Ananth, Dibyo, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Mayukh Bose, Anjul, jayanth and s m muneer ali

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Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space!


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.. maybe some Europeans

—devadutta @ 21:59

We have seen a similar thing spanning over Europe. But this is supposedly the world’s biggest. What it is?

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, bhargava, Manish Achuth, rickde, Logik, Supritha Maiya, raklodramA, KK, Ananth, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Mayukh Bose, jayanth, Gesar_Lin and s m muneer ali

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“World’s largest” superconducting supercollider in TX.


Friday, November 23, 2012

He threw a party today and invited everyone tomorrow

—devadutta @ 17:31

Not easy to identity this great man in zero G. Who is he?

Cracked by: Ananth, Manoj, KK, Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, Bipin Banavalikar, bhargava, Manish Achuth, vinayaknp, rickde, Vishnu Prashanth, Logik, Supritha Maiya, raklodramA, Dibyo, Rogi, Mayukh Bose, Anjul, jayanth and piezocake

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Stephen Hawking..