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Like the duracell bunny

—srikanth @ November 8, 2012

Claim to fame?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla and Ananth

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Microsoft terminated support for Halo 2 multiplayer on XBOX live, but there was a caveat: the service would stay on as long as people were still online. A few diehard fans tried to prolong its life by never logging out. APACHE N4SIR was the last one to log off, effectively ending Halo 2 multiplayer via XBL. In the process he kept it alive for almost a month past its final termination date.

tick

—srikanth @ November 7, 2012

Plain-text question:

Something happened in 2012 that caused, at the very least, these sites to go down. It is very likely there were far more failures than this, so I will not claim this list to be exhaustive in any way:

Reddit
Mozilla
Foursquare
Yelp
Gawker
Linkedin
Stumbleupon

What caused the outage?

Cracked by: Bharat Shetty, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde and KK

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The gurus running the central NTP servers added a leap second in 2012. This triggered a couple of obscure bugs that brought down many services en-masse, leading to all these sites going down :)

Un-tss un-tss un-tss...

—srikanth @ November 6, 2012

Not very geeky but I thought a bit of variety might be fun. The many faces of who?

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, s m muneer ali, Ananth, rickde, KK and jinz

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Daft Punk

'coz I'm free, free-fallin!

—srikanth @ November 5, 2012

Simplish question. Identify.

Cracked by: Rogi, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, rickde and KK

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A Gravity Powered LED light.

Next time it rains and everything floods here

—srikanth @ November 4, 2012

What is this? AutoRaja will look for its official name.

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth and rickde

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SHOAL, a robotic fish that operates in swarms to detect oceanic pollutants.

Out of video games and in to the real world?

—srikanth @ November 3, 2012

(2)’s treatment seems to have cured (1) of something. (1), (2) and the ‘something’, please?

Cracked by: Rogi, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla and Ananth

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(1) is Timothy Ray Brown, AKA The Berlin Patient

Ada-boy

—srikanth @ November 2, 2012

This Lady’s been making waves in the Open Source community. Who?

Cracked by: Amit, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Dibyo and Mayukh Bose

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Limor Fried, aka Ladyada - founder of AdaFruit industries and myriad Open Source projects

Hello! >>> d-.-b <<< !olleH

—srikanth @ November 1, 2012

Identify the ‘revolutionary’ device in the images:

(I hereby grant myself 100 points for awesome ASCII art hint in the title)

Cracked by: Amit, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Anjul, Rogi, manas and Dibyo

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The Theatrophone, the first demonstrated Stereo audio system.

In the words of the prophet Flo Rida

—srikanth @ October 31, 2012

What are these?

Cracked by: rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Anjul and Rogi

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Electron Microscope views of a vinyl record, and a compact disc

Wonder what the RIAA will think of this.

—srikanth @ October 30, 2012

A recent demonstration. What is it?

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/209957c42a5d568d6990ac09876bc12b.mp3] (link)

Cracked by: rickde, Sumanth Patlolla and Rogi

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3D printed vinyl record, demonstrated by Amanda Ghassaei of Instructables