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Feed your head.

—srikanth @ March 5, 2012

Decipher the code.

Actually, don’t do that. Just tell us who invented the script.

Cracked by: KK, badideabear, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Ananth, rickde, Rogi, rohanquizzer, Bharath, jowens and raklodramA

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Charles Dodgson’s (Lewis Carroll) nyctography script to help write in the dark.


Many of these actually seem better.

—srikanth @ March 4, 2012

Here, take some points :P

These were the initial thoughts. What was the final decision?

Cracked by: rickde, Amarendra Kumar, jowens, Bharath, Rogi, Mayukh Bose, badideabear, Ananth, KK, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer and raklodramA

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Mathematica, from Wolfram.


We're like them, for quizzes.

—srikanth @ March 3, 2012

Where would you see this?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Jayaprakash B R, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Urthstripe, rickde, Rogi, Vishwas B Sharma, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, jowens, badideabear, Amarendra Kumar, Bharath, Ananth and raklodramA

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That’s Derrick. Derrick thinks you would like to receive Groupon Mails. You can go punish Derrick here: http://www.groupon.com/unsubscribe


This is getting out of hand.

—srikanth @ March 2, 2012

What is this/ where would you see something like this?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Anjul, jowens, finkle, Vishnu Prashanth, Manish Achuth, rickde, Bharath, KK, Raghuvansh, Vishwas B Sharma, badideabear, halfbakedbeans and raklodramA

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This is a snapshot of the current exchange rates at Virwox - the world’s largest virtual currency trading center. The BTC (Bitcoin) should’ve given it away.


All this has happened before.

—srikanth @ March 1, 2012

What’s the story?

Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, Bharath, raklodramA, Vishwas B Sharma, KK, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Jayaprakash B R, jowens, rohanquizzer and Raghuvansh

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Terry Winograd demoed a natural language understanding program called SHRDLU waay back in the 70s. He named it after an artificially intelligent linotype named ETAOIN SHRDLU from a sci-fi novel .


Smile

—devadutta @ February 29, 2012

Identify this “camera”

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, KK, Thiru d gr8, jowens, prasanth, badideabear, Rogi, Anjul, Bharath, Vishwas B Sharma, finkle, rickde, Amarendra Kumar and rohanquizzer

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Lytro - Light Field Camera


Salute!

—devadutta @ February 28, 2012

In her younger days. Who she?

She even has a ship named after her.

Cracked by: Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, raklodramA, jowens, Manish Achuth, rickde, rohanquizzer, finkle, Logik, badideabear, Ananth, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Vishwas B Sharma, Vishnu Prashanth and Godzilla101

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Grace Hopper


Breathe

—devadutta @ February 27, 2012

Dude in 1 invented 2 because he could not comfortably do what he is doing in 1 to women. Who he? What did he invent?

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, vinayaknp, Vishwas B Sharma, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Rogi, raklodramA, jowens, Manish Achuth, rickde, Thiru D Gr8, rohanquizzer, finkle, badideabear, Ananth, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Bharath and Raghuvansh

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That’s René Laennec, inventor of stethoscope


Rock out on the bongo drums.

—srikanth @ February 25, 2012

How did these two “make money”?

Cracked by: Rogi, Manish Achuth, rickde, shrik, rohanquizzer, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, jowens, raklodramA and Bharath

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Feynman set out two challenges during his “Plenty of room at the bottom series”, one to create a micromotor and one to inscribe a book page on a small surface. These two were claimed by William Mclellan and Thomas Newman, respectively.


O Snap!

—devadutta @ February 24, 2012

Tell us, why are they all wearing red shirts?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, jinz, shrik, rickde, Logik, jowens, finkle, Bharath, Ananth, Vishwas B Sharma, Rogi, Rajesh, Rahulk, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, badideabear, raklodramA and Mayukh Bose

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Quoting Rahulk