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—srikanth @ October 27, 2010

A question From raklodramA, winner of the shiny ! What is this that you see below?

(Yes, it is an evil GIF.)

Look at the question, now back to me, now back at the question, now back to me. Sadly, this isn’t yours, but if you stopped procrastinating and started sending questions to [email protected], you could smell like this question you might get the shiny.

Cracked by: username, dineshk, apar, jowens, shrey, Dibyo, krudebox, Manish Achuth, Rogi, raklodramA, Thejas V R, shrik, udupendra and Logik

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PassWindow - a delightfully simple method to generate very complex keys!


a^2

—devadutta @ October 26, 2010

Someone recently “earned” this badge for doing something. Who? What did he do?

Cracked by: Logik, Dhan, Rogi, dineshk, apar, shrik, Raghuvansh, SS, username, Bharath, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, krudebox, raklodramA, kallukudian, Vishnu, Rahul Rajeev, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, puneet, KK, Ananth, Aparna and udupendra

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Expedition 25 Commander Douglas H. Wheelock became the first human to check-in on Foursquare from space. Now, this is called marketing.


What's that noise?

—srikanth @ October 25, 2010

Identify the astronomer in (1). What you see in (2) is a replica of the device that he built that made him famous in the first place.

Cracked by: Rogi, username, shrik, dineshk, Ananth, apar, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Thejas V R, Rahulk, mankuTimma, Dibyo, Rahul Rajeev, soumya g, v.chandrashekar, Logik, Raghuvansh, jowens, Bharath, kallukudian, Shwetha Maiya and Vinay Nair Karath

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Karl Jansky. He built a home-made radio telescope that detected the first radio emissions from the Milky Way. This ubernerd almost single-handedly founded what we call Radio Astronomy today.


Before the billions

—devadutta @ October 24, 2010

Internet “capable” gaming console. Major flop. Which company made these? Also, please to tell us what that controller is called.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, Manish Achuth, dineshk, username, SS, AmK, Rogi, jowens, aditthya, KK, Ananth, kallukudian, apar, raklodramA, Bharath, krudebox, Dibyo, shrik, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya, v.chandrashekar, Smitha R Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahul Rajeev, Vinay Nair Karath, Aparna, Logik, Rahulk, mankuTimma, soumya g and Mikey

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Apple and Bandai’s PipP!n. The controller was called AppleJack.


Of course they'd win...

—srikanth @ October 23, 2010

Another meme question. How is this long-gone-but-recently-returned duo known?

Cracked by: shrik, AmK, jowens, Bharath, Mikey, Ananth, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, raklodramA, Thejas V R, username, v.chandrashekar, Rahul Rajeev, Sumanth Patlolla, Smitha R Maiya, Dibyo, soumya g, dineshk, apar, udupendra, kallukudian, Shwetha Maiya and Logik

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Hai-yah! Ask a Ninja!


I should have dropped out of High School

—devadutta @ October 22, 2010

Making a special appearance on the Simpsons. Who?

Cracked by: AmK, Ananth, dineshk, Logik, jowens, username, byslexia, krudebox, SS, apar, Goyal, Anjul, Smitha R Maiya, kallukudian, Rogi, Thejas V R, shrey, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Rahul Rajeev, quaziluffy, Bharath, yaksha, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Rahulk, Martin Antony, Sumanth Patlolla, soumya g, udupendra and shrik

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg making a special appearance on the Simpsons. Lisa takes Nelson to an entrepreneur conference to show him the importance of college. But to her dismay, she learns most of the people there are college dropouts, including MZ.


Take a guess - he's probably right.

—srikanth @ October 21, 2010

Ladies and Gents, A big round of applause to shrik for hitting a run-length of 50 and entering the Hall of Fame. Congratsu pa! You get the star %soh% for this achievement!

What connects a creation of (1) and the creators of (2)?

Cracked by: jowens, username, Raghuvansh, apar, Rogi, AmK, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Thejas V R, v.chandrashekar, Rahul Rajeev, kallukudian, dineshk, shrik and Rahulk

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The creators of (2) Contra 4 (for the Nintendo DS) are called WayForward Technologies - seemingly a reference to a company of the same name in Douglas Adams’s (1) famous Dirk Gently series!


Take that, Mr.Elsewhere!

—devadutta @ October 20, 2010

Spooky. Very spooky.

What is happening here? Also, Identify the dancer in the center, pls.

All hail ffmpeg! The bestest video editing software evar! Does everything from command line! What more can I ask for?

Cracked by: Anirudh Patil, aditthya, Dibyo, krudebox, Rogi, Ananth, username, Raghuvansh, byslexia, shrik, jowens, dineshk, AmK, apar, kallukudian, mankuTimma, Manish Achuth, Rahul Rajeev, SS, Logik, Thejas V R and Goyal

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HRP-4C, a robot in the center is dancing along with humans. Who needs Halloween when things like this happen everyday?


Neither positive, nor negative

—srikanth @ October 19, 2010

Stamp commemorating who?

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, krudebox, Ananth, nishansolo, dineshk, SV, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, shrey, AmK, Rahul Rajeev, Thejas V R, Rogi, username, Logik, Manish Achuth, Nanda, mankuTimma, Anirudh Patil, kallukudian, Rahulk, bluegem4, Shwetha Maiya, N@ngA, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, SS, soumya g, byslexia, jowens, apar, Bharath and v.chandrashekar

byslexia tried to beat Auto Raja, and kinda managed.


Trip around the sun

—devadutta @ October 18, 2010

What is Google celebrating with this doodle?

Note: The doodle might change by the time you get to see it ;)

Cracked by: Thejas V R, krudebox, Goyal, shrik, Manish Achuth, aditthya, Rahulk, Rogi, Ananth, Dibyo, username, Logik, jowens, SV, AmK, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, kallukudian, dineshk, apar, SS, soumya g and byslexia

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Apparently, you will see a doodle like this on your birthday! But, only you can see it when you are logged it. Nice touch anyway :) http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/this-week-in-search-101610.html