Connect

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Look closely in the above pic

And since we do not want you to start looking for connects in deep relativity principles, here is a clue to streamline your quest

udupendra , nihit , srikanth , Ganesh Prasad , jayanth , yaksha , prabhu_dc , Shashank got the answer right.
There was one intricate detail which everybody missed :)

The connect is Pi(approximation) day which is celebrated on March 14th every year (generally by giving out free pies).

1. Is a very famous picture of Albert Einstein taken on his 72th birthday( everyone missed this) and his birthday is on March 14th.
2. Larry Shaw, the dude who started the Pi Day funda
3. Depiction of a solution to Buffon’s Needle problem, called Lazzarini’s estimate, which lets people asymptotically approximate pi by tossing needles on parallel lines. ( Shamelessly flicking srikanth’s answer)

udupendra, nihit, Ganesh Prasad, jayanth, yaksha, prabhu_dc and Shashank

Instead of plain boring text messages with numbers , if you were to get these awesome illustrations as errors, which protocol will you be using? Bonus for telling us which illustration corresponds to which boring error.

1. 2.

2. 4.

3. 6.

(Hint: All of us have seen these errors)

The following people get the bonus points: **udupendra , BiGFooT , abhinav , prabhu_dc , prasanth , yaksha , jayanth , Shashank, Srichand
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srikanth , nihit just get the protocol name (lazy! lazy!)

These are the illustrations of HTTP errors. Very easily workable.
You can see the whole set here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/sets/72157594388426362/
1.401 - Not found.
2.408 - Request timeout.
3.409 - Conflict.
4.411 - Length required.
5.413 - Request entity too large.
6.402 - Payment required.

udupendra, BiGFooT, abhinav, prabhu_dc, prasanth, yaksha, jayanth, Shashank, nihit and srichand

This question inspired by a suggestion from Prabhu

Identify this equation:

And without further ado, clues:

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Lots of jobless people, namely Arun Krishnamoorthy , Anuj , BiGFooT , bs , Swetha , Vinod , Ganesh Prasad , nihit , Preetish , Tathagata Chatterjee , jayanth , ram , Gammafunction , Shashank , Abhishek , alephnull , prasanth , yaksha , Mahesh Herle , pratap , Prasad , and udupendra , took the time to point out that:

This is the Drake Equation.

Some more people went on to identify that

(1) is the WOW! signal, and (2) is the Arecibo message, considered very likely to be our first interplanetary I/O operations (respectively) :-)

Arun Krishnamoorthy, Anuj, BiGFooT, bs, Swetha, Vinod, Ganesh Prasad, nihit, Preetish, Tathagata Chatterjee, jayanth, ram, Gammafunction, Shashank, Abhishek, alephnull, prasanth, yaksha, Mahesh Herle, pratap, Prasad and udupendra

Identify the author (caricature circled below) of this article that appeared in Mad magazine ~50 years ago.

Cracked by everyone… (piezocake , Keerthi , prabhu_dc , Arun Krishnamoorthy , udupendra , BiGFooT , srichand , bs , Pratap , Swetha , Ganesh Prasad , Sagnik , nihit , shyam , Tathagata Chatterjee , ram , Abhishek , Prasad , Mahesh Herle , yaksha , prasanth , Archana , alephnull, and shashank)

piezocake, Keerthi, prabhu_dc, Arun Krishnamoorthy, udupendra, BiGFooT, srichand, bs, Pratap, Swetha, Ganesh Prasad, Sagnik, nihit, shyam, Tathagata Chatterjee, ram, Abhishek, Prasad, Mahesh Herle, yaksha, prasanth, Archana, alephnull and Shashank

Who he?

He is best known for taking this photograph

Cracked left right and center.
**srikanth, udupendra , yaksha , srichand , Pratap , Abhishek , prabhu_dc , Swetha , nihit , Keerthi , shyam , Bikiran Goswami , insufferablejake , Prasad , ram , Arun Krishnamoorthy , prasanth , Poornima , jayanth
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udupendra, yaksha, srichand, Pratap, Abhishek, prabhu_dc, Swetha, nihit, Keerthi, shyam, Biki, insufferablejake, Prasad, ram, Arun Krishnamoorthy, prasanth, Poornima and jayanth

The pictures below capture a few of a long-running series of unrelated events that have become an integral part of geek mythos. What is the term used to describe all these events?

Cracked by: Anuj , Poornima , srichand , Abhishek , ram , nihit , Prasad , yaksha and asha.

srichand(5), Anuj, Poornima, Abhishek, ram, nihit, Prasad, yaksha and asha

Posting on behalf of devadutta, who’s caught up with real life.

Connect:

and

Additional clue:

Cracked by only two: udupendra , prabhu_dc. Bravo!!

udupendra and prabhu_dc

His was the only 0:

This Googler is proudly placed at 2 …

and the bongo-playing genius is at 3,

while this actress has 4.

Question : Identify the man with 0, and tell me what this number is.

Cracked by: nihit , udupendra , srichand , Pratap , prabhu_dc , Sagnik , BiGFooT , and jayanth

nihit, udupendra, srichand, Pratap, prabhu_dc, Sagnik, BiGFooT and jayanth

Guest question time! Nihit has brought to us this nice thought provoking question.

Connect

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If you have a question to share with us, please send it to boiledbeans at gmail.com

Cracked by: srichand , Arun Krishnamoorthy , Abhishek , Prasad , prasanth, and yaksha

srichand, Arun Krishnamoorthy, Abhishek, prasanthnori, Prasad and yaksha

When a famous Bengalooru (Bangalore) based band came up with this song (1),

1. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/b20bd3952676194031d315d210acba7a.mp3]

Microsoft is said to have got this band (2)

to compose this song (3)
3. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/b26d5bd1d44f80cb5b2bedf2fc07fb51.mp3]

Identify 1,2 and 3.

Hint: One of the members of the band which played song 1, now plays for the band formed by the dude who is on the lead vocals for this song
4. [audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/dc1e542f7d368fd5b813b411c9c2e602.mp3]

If you are still wondering (unlikely), the dude who sang the above song (4) looks like this

This question was a tribute to our favorite Indian bands
Cracked by:

**Srikanth , udupendra , bs , ram , prasanth , Preetish , Piyush , Srichand Pendyala , Abhishek and yaksha ( Congrats to our new top scorer! ) **

Others came really close.

1. “Linux Can!” by Phenom. We love this band :)

2. Parikrama . I love this band, except for the song “Superhero” which was clue 3.

3. Is “Mysore se aye” by Antragni. I love this band too. Gaurav Joshua Vaz who played for Phenom now plays for the raghudixit project. The dude in the pic is Raghupati Dixit.

Srikanth, udupendra, Poornima, bs, ram, prasanth, Preetish, Piyush, yaksha and Abhishek