Guest question from Logik %gqh%. Yay!
What is blocked out here? Who has proposed this?
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, ADitya, Bharath and manan
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Internet Defense League, proposed by Alexis Ohanian
Splat!
What happened next?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, raklodramA, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Vishnu Prashanth, KK, Bharath, Logik, badideabear, Anjul, Dibyo and nandhaksamy
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Mythbusters teamed up with NVIDIA to create this weird GPU demonstration. Tons of paintballs were shot out of the tubes to ‘paint’ a Mona Lisa onto the screen.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
You're hot and you're cold
Connect/Identify:
Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Rogi, Vishnu Prashanth, KK, Bharath, Logik, badideabear, bhargava, Jayaprakash B R and Dibyo
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Sadi Carnot of Carnot cycle fame
Monday, May 21, 2012
All of you - on my command - shake !
Each circle/squiggly line represents an ’event’ of at least 4.0. What does this map show?
Cracked by: Bharath and Rogi
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An automated quake-catcher network (run using BOINC) that tracks seismic activity using laptop accelerometers.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Wow!
Simple - identify the lady:
Cracked by: Rogi, Vishnu Prashanth, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, Logik, KK, Bharath, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Amarendra Kumar, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya
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Jill Tarter - Astronomer and SETI member (also the inspiration for Jodie Foster’s character in Contact)
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Sir Design
Who he?
Cracked by: Anjul, badideabear, Bharath, Manish Achuth, KK, Ananth, Jayaprakash B R, raklodramA, Bipin Banavalikar, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Rogi, bhargava, maldy, Vishnu Prashanth, rickde and Amarendra Kumar
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Sir Jonathan Ive. Apple Design genius.
Friday, May 18, 2012
That's so meta
Plaintext question. Googling will be severely frowned upon.
What are these some examples of:
Server: ‘; DROP TABLE servertypes; –
X-nananana: Batcache
X-Fry: Please, Mr. Nixon! We’re appealing to your sense of decency!
Cracked by: badideabear, Ananth, Bharath, Manish Achuth, rickde, Sujoy, Rogi, KK, Sumanth Patlolla and raklodramA
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Easter eggs hidden in HTTP headers returned by many popular sites (reddit, wordpress, and an older slashdot). Check boiledbeans.net for some fun :P
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Stick your tongue out and blow.
Connect the three:
Cracked by: Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Manoj, badideabear, Ananth, finkle, Bharath, rickde, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Bipin Banavalikar and sanador
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The BBC created the BBC micro as an educational computer (launching Acorn which eventually became ARM). The Raspberry Pi foundation created the Pi inspired by the BBC micro (which, interestingly, is centered around a powerful ARM processor)
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
And on the first day..
Who is this sculpture a tribute to?
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, Ananth, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, badideabear, Vishnu Prashanth, finkle, Bharath, rickde and Sumanth Patlolla
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Johannes Gutenberg who invented the modern letterpress
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
10..9..8
Tribute post. Sitter.
Identify
Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Bharath, Manish Achuth, Ananth, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, badideabear, raklodramA and Shwetha Maiya
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spacex