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2012

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Now at 48fps?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Reconstructing what?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, KK, rickde, ashwin, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, raklodramA and aparna rajeev

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A scientist’s reconstruction of the Homo Floriensis, colloquially called ‘The Hobbit’


Quack.

—srikanth @ 23:59

This canard lays claim to be the first. Identify the device:

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, KK, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Ananth, raklodramA and aparna rajeev

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The Santos-Dumont 14bis


Monday, October 22, 2012

Wonder how they fixed typos..

—devadutta @ 01:56

Gust question from %gqh% raklodrama. Thank you sire!

What is special about this typewriter?

Cracked by: raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, Rogi and Ananth

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Typewriter with predictive text


Sunday, October 21, 2012

/BlackHole/

—devadutta @ 01:39

Guest question from p vs np after a long long time! Thank you sire, and welcome back!

What connects 1 to 2?

Cracked by: Rogi and Ananth

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Quoting Wikipedia -


Saturday, October 20, 2012

Not default answer

—devadutta @ 21:20

She is one of the only two women in this particular “Hall of Fame”. Who is she?

Hint: A lot of people who have previously appeared on BB are in this hall of fame.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Ananth, Supritha Maiya, Manish Achuth and Rogi

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Elizabeth Feinler one of the first managers of ARPANET, inductee of the “Internet Hall of Fame”


Friday, October 19, 2012

Call the lawyers? No, just send this.

—devadutta @ 14:31

This actually happened. What is blocked out here?

Cracked by: Dibyo, manas, Aparna, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, Supritha Maiya, aparna rajeev, Prabhu, vinayaknp, KK, bhargava and Barun

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Windows Phone 7


Thursday, October 18, 2012

Smi-wooooo-le

—devadutta @ 14:10

What it is?

It is used like this


Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Does it come with "Snake"?

—devadutta @ 10:49

Great guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

They were the market leaders in this industry in the 80’s. Identify the company.


Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Can you hear me now?

—srikanth @ 23:59

(1) was used to create the first large scale demonstration of something. What was it called? Legend has it that it was parked near (2) but I can’t find substantiations for that claim.

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Ananth, Prabhu, KK and bhargava

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Stanford Research Institute’s Packet Radio Van.


Monday, October 15, 2012

Still feel it has a silly name

—srikanth @ 07:01

Art, but what medium?

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

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The dots are from the IR emitters used on Microsoft’s Kinect.