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This is how we backup Boiledbeans.

—srikanth @ April 27, 2011

Identify device

Cracked by: anurag, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, jowens, sandeep bhat, shrik, dineshk and udupendra

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Prank specification produced for the Signetics 25021 “Write-only memory”.


Live long and mobile

—devadutta @ April 26, 2011

Fancy device used by 1, brought to life on Android and iPhone (and a few standalone devices, if you are feeling pedantic today). What?

Cracked by: Rogi, shrik, Akarsha Ramesh Kamala, jowens, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Manish Achuth, jins, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, Riyaz Usman and Ananth

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Tricoder


I accidentally the.

—srikanth @ April 25, 2011

What’s the story?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, xeqtor, Siddarth Pai, mrsgollum, Rogi, Dibyo, Thejas V R, raklodramA, jins, Sumanth Patlolla, lanu, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Ananth, Mahima Kamath, dineshk, udupendra, jowens, Anubhav, krudebox and s m muneer ali

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Stewart brand created buttons (1) asking for a picture of the whole earth. NASA then released this pic (2) taken by the astronauts on one of the Apollo missions.


Stop!

—devadutta @ April 24, 2011

What is special about this traffic licght?

Cracked by: Anjul, dineshk, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Rogi, jowens, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, rohanquizzer, jayaprakashbr, krudebox, raklodramA, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Mahima Kamath, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, lanu, panrod, anurag, Riyaz Usman and udupendra

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Traffic lights for people selectively sensitive to color. Politically correct, I am.


That last one is debatable.

—srikanth @ April 23, 2011

Plaintext question for today. What is this list?

  1. The Ericsson Globe in Stockholm
  2. Stockholm City Museum in Stockholm
  3. Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
  4. Cosmonova Riksmuseet in Stockholm
  5. Mörby Centrum in Danderyd
  6. Arlanda airport in Märsta
  7. Celsius square in Uppsala
  8. Furuviks Park in Gävle
  9. by the river Söderhamnsån in Söderhamn
  10. by the lake Dellen South, in Delsbo

Cracked by: shrik, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, Goyal, jowens, dineshk, Dibyo, madhur, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, Aneeh, krudebox, Thejas V R, aditthya, Moju21, lanu, Archana, Siddarth Pai, rohanquizzer, Amarendra, Riyaz Usman, jins, vishwanath, Sanador, raklodramA, Rahulk, anurag and SV

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This explains it best - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System


Hows the location?

—devadutta @ April 22, 2011

Simple one for the weekend. Identify.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, udupendra, Ananth, Riyaz Usman, jowens, shrik, Aravind, smhashmi123, Manish Achuth, Antariksh Bothale, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, s m muneer ali, dineshk, Mahima Kamath, Rahul Rajeev, Sanador, jayaprakashbr, Siddarth Pai, v.chandrashekar, Shwetha Maiya, krudebox, Thejas V R, lanu, Harshal Ruikar, jins and Rahulk

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Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico


Almost h2g2. Almost.

—srikanth @ April 21, 2011

Very famous webcomic parodying something. Who parodying what?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, shrik, dineshk, jowens, Manish Achuth, jins, Dibyo, Mahi, Sumanth Patlolla, udupendra, madhur, Shwetha Maiya and Thejas V R

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Gaming-culture webcomic Penny Arcade recently took a dig at the new Ad-supported Amazon kindle. Full link here - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/4/13/


God created Tetris

—devadutta @ April 20, 2011

If Tetris was a religion, what would these be? ( According to a famous “artist” :P )

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, Raghuvansh, Ananth, Anjul, Riyaz Usman, Dibyo, Debasish, Manish Achuth, Kriti Kalwad, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, shrey, aditthya, jins, rohanquizzer, nikhil, Siddarth Pai, piezocake, Rahul Rajeev, dineshk, Antariksh Bothale, Tribhuvanesh, krudebox, Mahi, Thejas V R and udupendra


My hero!

—srikanth @ April 19, 2011

Extremely aggressive ad (slightly censored), but I don’t think it was ever used. Identify the creator/designer (not the company).

Cracked by: shrik, Raghuvansh, jowens, Rogi and dineshk

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Bob widlar. Analog IC pioneer and drunk, worked for National Semiconductor.


Dont tell anyone

—devadutta @ April 18, 2011

Which “art project” started off with these 3 postcards?

Bonus question for today. What is blacked out?

Cracked by: shrik(2), Shwetha Maiya(2), udupendra(2), Manish Achuth(2), Sumanth Patlolla(2), rohanquizzer(2), aditthya(2), Debasish(2), raklodramA(2), krudebox(2), Siddarth Pai(2), jowens(2), Riyaz Usman(2), Rogi(2), Raghuvansh(2), dineshk(2), Ananth(2), Anjul(2), Jins(2), Thejas V R(2), shrey, varun, Moju21, vinayaknp, Dibyo and Qqsachin