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ATMega Fun

—devadutta @ October 4, 2011

Super famous hardware. Especially in recent times among makers and hackers.

Identify.

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Bad breath?

—srikanth @ October 3, 2011

Key part of what company/product’s logo?

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This is the logo of Gumstix a company that produces a line of single-board linux based computers that are each the size of a stick of gum.


Glowing White.Literally.

—devadutta @ October 2, 2011

Tell us what this radioactive creme was used for

Hint:

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Toothpaste!


Wait till Bezos sees this one...

—srikanth @ October 1, 2011

What’s blanked out, and who wrote this letter?

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Mathematics Inc - a fictional company that EW Dijkstra created to commercialize mathematics. This document describes his difficulties in trying to take a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis and get royalties from it.


Where am I?!

—srikanth @ September 30, 2011

Seemingly simple. Identify the place, and its (more?) famous fictional counterpart.

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Oink!

—devadutta @ September 29, 2011

Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA. Thanks sire!

What is happening here?

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Angry Birds theme park in China


Best way to learn Venn diagrams yet.

—srikanth @ September 28, 2011

Identify the lady. Clues are in the picture, of course :)

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Jessica Hagy, author of the awesome webcomic Indexed.


answer = function() { alert ("ha!"); }

—devadutta @ September 27, 2011

Connect to a “hot” 2011 technology

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Rayn Dahl, creator of Node.js which uses Chrome’s V8 engine.


Was that sweet?

—devadutta @ September 26, 2011

This fruit has become majorly popular in recent times mainly because of 2. What is this fruit called? what is 2?

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Miracle Berry that temporarily changes your tastebud’s reception to tastes.


That was Not Hard

—devadutta @ September 25, 2011

Yay! Sitter after a long time.

What problem?

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Traveling Salesman Problem