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Trust Me.

—devadutta @ September 8, 2010

Whose tribute to whom? You need to rearrange this image to get the original one :)

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Aim to misbehave failed

—srikanth @ September 7, 2010

A simple question (with a slightly long answer?). Why was this device named so?

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That guy

—devadutta @ September 6, 2010

Nice question from udupendra %gqh%. Thanks Saar!

Whose old logo? Who is featured in the logo?

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Power up!

—devadutta @ September 5, 2010

Some ingenious dude(et) did this to a cycle track in a big US city. Where are these symbols from?

Sorry about the delay people. Long weekend here :)

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*twist*, *twist*

—srikanth @ September 4, 2010

An image doing the rounds on the net. Someone (X) is using this to explain something (Y). Solve for X and Y.

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Professional Witness

—srikanth @ September 3, 2010

Fully-formed guest question from Rogi - the latest winner of the shiny

The gentleman in (1) created the device in the foreground of (2) with all the stickers on it.
If you can tell us what the stickers are, we’ll assume you know who he is and what he created.

Got more questions? [email protected] awaits.

Cracked by jowens, Rogi, Bharath and shrik

Check out Rogi’s answer for the full details.


The other phone

—devadutta @ September 2, 2010

Simple. What is this phone called? (It is blanked out in the image below)

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0 calories

—srikanth @ September 1, 2010

What is connection?

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Lets choose the middle

—devadutta @ August 31, 2010

First, a big round of applause to Logik for recording an unbeaten run-length of 50! You get this %soh% shiny badge, sire!

This questions is what some people refer to as “an old chestnut” :)

Which term in computer science is a reference to the " holy war" between inhabitants of the two Islands shown below?

The root-cause of the war was about how to break this

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Show Answer

The terms little endian and big endian’s etymological roots can be traced to the book “Gulliver’s Travels” where people from the islands of Lilliput and Blefuscu fight a holy war because they cannot agree upon which side a boiled egg has to be broken from.


Ha Ha!-ic

—srikanth @ August 30, 2010

These are examples of a certain class of devices (x) manufactured by a certain company (y). x & y?

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