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Photorealistic explosions?

—srikanth @ October 21, 2009

What controversy connects:

Question stays up for 12 hrs longer :-(

Cracked by udupendra, Logik, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Rogi, shrik, byslexia, shenoyvarun86, akhi, Chinmaya U.Holla, xtremevarun and Prasad


$100

—devadutta @ October 20, 2009

1 originally thought of this idea and designed the concept 2 a long time ago, but the idea was famously brought to life by 3 only a few years ago and 1 now works closely with the project launched by 3.

Identify 1,2, 3 and the project.

  1. 220px-Alan_Kay2 2. Dynabook

3.800px-NNegoponte_USNA_20090415_

This image of 2 will be very useful

dynabook_2

Cracked by: shrik, udupendra, eli, byslexia, emrohit, Chinmaya U.Holla, Goutham DL, Debasish, krudebox, Dibyo, Sourya, Anubhav, sidsen, daspar, Raghuvansh, akhi, Calvin, Ananth, piezocake, Logik, Rogi, AC, xtremevarun, xtremevarun, madhur and abhishek chakraborty

Show Answer

Alan Kay’s original “DynaBook” idea was to make a computer available to every child. Nicholas Negroponte, MIT prof and Alan Kay’s friend launched the OLPC which is trying to realize this idea.


Great ball of fire!

—srikanth @ October 19, 2009

First, second, and third prize winners - of what contest?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rogi, AC, byslexia, Dibyo, xtremevarun, Logik, shrik, sidsen and Siddharth Jain


Spot the difference

—devadutta @ October 18, 2009

A big round of applause to Rogi , for setting an awesome new run-length record of 70 correct answers in a row! Amazing!

AmK also deserves a round of applause for breaking into the top 5 run-lengths with a cool 45 correct answers in a row!

Amazing job Rogi and AmK!

Now for the question

Many people swear by this new(kind of) philosophy in design. What is it called?

a b

Google (in)famously did the above with around 41 choices.

Happy Deepavali to all of you!

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, Logik, Rogi, shashank, Dibyo and shrik


500

—devadutta @ October 17, 2009

Today’s question comes from udupendra. This question is special. Not because it is framed differently, but because with this, he will hit 500 points on bb!

Awesome!

So, with another round of applause to udupendra, we give you today’s slightly involved guest question.
Here’s how it works -
Four crossword style cryptic clues, cracking which will lead you to a
stage-2 kind of a connect.

  1. This bond fellow is a nanogram more than the exclusion principle guy.
  2. Odd ranges discover protein structures
  3. Listen to the radio, sounds like he is barred in!
  4. Mother of Christ finds one in a cure.
    Here’s how it works -

Four crossword style cryptic clues, cracking which will lead you to a stage-2 kind of a connect.

  1. This bond fellow is a nanogram more than the exclusion principle guy.

  2. Odd ranges discover protein structures

  3. Listen to the radio, sounds like he is barred in!

  4. Mother of Christ finds one in a cure.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Logik, Debasish, emrohit, achyuth, Mitesh, shenoyvarun86, udupendra and daspar


Slow day?

—srikanth @ October 16, 2009

Identify experiment:

Hint: It gained fame/infamy in 2005.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, arun, Logik, krudebox, quaziluffy, Wasi Manazir, Rogi, xtremevarun, xtremevarun, udupendra, Martin, shenoyvarun86, abhijeet, emrohit, achyuth, abhishek chakraborty, malcaluffin, byslexia, AC and sidsen


I hate the ones with ketchup in them

—srikanth @ October 15, 2009

Connect:

/me puts on a flame-proof suit.

Cracked by Dibyo and shrik


Does not sound like 'bundle'

—devadutta @ October 14, 2009

Identify this device

wr_hand1_small

Apologies for the delay folks.. we at least got 3 days in a row on time :) We are getting better.

Cracked by: udupendra, Logik, Wasi Manazir, madhur, Ananth, Dibyo, Rogi, Calvin, shrik, xtremevarun, krudebox, joe, eli, foobar and 2-D


Stop, look and listen dino

—devadutta @ October 13, 2009

Connect

180px-CryolophosaurusDB 220px-Elvis_Presley_1970

Here’s a close-up that will be useful

180px-Cryolophosaurus_jconway

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, Raghuvansh, krudebox, madhur, sidsen, xtremevarun, djds4rce, AC, shrik, Debasish, raklodramA, Rogi, udupendra, joe, nishansolo, Ananth, Logik, Champakali, Dibyo, shenoyvarun86, Ramkumar, Mihir Rege, yuvnesh, junmohan and Sourya

Show Answer

Quoting djd4ce


Early to bed, early to ...

—srikanth @ October 12, 2009

What controversy connects:

Cracked by everyone.

Dibyo, krudebox, Chinmaya U.Holla, udupendra, Rogi, shrik, Logik, sidsen, Mo and nishansolo