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Without change

—devadutta @ October 14, 2011

Identify 1 and connect to 2

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Midnight!?

—devadutta @ October 13, 2011

Yay! Obscure meme question time!

What meme did this cartoon supposedly trigger?

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Curvy River

—devadutta @ October 12, 2011

Soon you will be able to see lockers like this in a 7-Eleven close to you. What are they used for?

Another image

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It is imperative.

—srikanth @ October 11, 2011

Identify the standing man (left).

:-(

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Dennis Ritchie - co-creator of the C programming language. Passed away around the weekend of October 8th 2011. Exact news is not out yet (as of 12th oct).


+50 Bonus points for anyone who puts up a video singing the poem

—srikanth @ October 10, 2011

Identify the real person:

More hints: This is linked to the previous question.

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F.X. Reid is the pen-name of British CS professor Mike W Shields.


Not considered 'that' harmful

—srikanth @ October 9, 2011

A formal treatment of a very informal concept. But people actually went on to implement it, though. What is blanked out?

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The COMEFROM statement, a peculiar perversion of GOTO that has actually found real implementations. WTF.


And instead of Pt. Ravishankar, they had Devadutta?

—srikanth @ October 8, 2011

Poster for what event?

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An event called w00tstock - some kind of unholy combination of a concert and a Linux convention, i suppose :)


My solution is simpler - I HAVE NO MONEY.

—srikanth @ October 7, 2011

These stills are from a recent commercial (with some editing). What product was the commercial for?

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Google Wallet. An edited version of the famous Seinfeld episode s04e05 :)


Clickity Click!

—devadutta @ October 6, 2011

Illustration making a fairly obvious comparison. What is blocked out here?

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Facebook


Batman! No, wait.

—devadutta @ October 5, 2011

Famous car. Famous person. Many many stories.

Who does this car belong to?

Notice how it does not have a name plate? Yes. There is a story for that.

(I had this question drafted and saved for tomorrow, but I am posting it early for a reason)

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Steve Jobs. R.I.P.