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I'll keep the keyboard. Thanks.

—devadutta @ April 7, 2011

You knew this question was coming.. didn’t you :)

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, Aravind, emberryteeste, Manish Achuth, aditthya, Anjul, shrik, Logik, udupendra, Antariksh Bothale, Narayana, vinayaknp, Ananth, grey_matters, Dibyo, shrey, jowens, dineshk, Jayaprakash B R, SV, Shwetha Maiya, krudebox, Thejas V R and raklodramA

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“Google’s April fool’s prank of GMail Motion brought to life using Microsoft Kinect” – Krudebox


It sucks!

—devadutta @ April 6, 2011

Yay! Guest question time! This one is from %gqh% udupendra. Thanksu saar.

After what device is this microbe (the circular one at the center of the picture) named?

Update: Hint: The device it is named after sucks. Literally.

Update: Hint: Think about devices that suck and look like the microbe in center.

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

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Roomba. This is the microbe Roombia truncata, named after the


This is a public service announcement...

—srikanth @ April 5, 2011

What is this list?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Ananth, SV, Anjul, Rogi, Amarendra, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, aditthya, shrik, kiran, raklodramA, Dibyo, varuns88, rohanquizzer, udupendra, jowens, Antariksh Bothale, Thejas V R and Shwetha Maiya

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The Mozilla foundation recently released their list of addons that cause Mozilla browsers to run extremely slow, a “first” for a company to publish a wall-of-shame of browser plugins!


Do they hate dolphins?

—devadutta @ April 4, 2011

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Thats the Thames river, btw.

Cracked by: Ananth, jowens, Rogi, dineshk, krudebox, rohanquizzer, shrik, aditthya, Siddarth Pai, udupendra, Raghuvansh, jins, kiran, raklodramA, Dibyo and Aravind

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Google Earth rendering a Narwhal in front of Canonical’s office in London. Canonical of course makes Ubuntu and the next release is termed Natty Narwhal.


Steady

—devadutta @ April 3, 2011

What is this?

This question is inspired by a comment left by one of our users. We will give that person a %gqh% trophy after this question closes :P

Very Happy ಯುಗಾದಿ (Ugadi) to all our Kannada/Telugu speaking readers.

Cracked by: dineshk, Mikey, jowens, KK, Rogi, Manish Achuth, krudebox, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Raghuvansh, Muthu sundaresan, raklodramA, abinash sharma, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, Siddarth Pai, S M MUNEER ALI, Ananth, aditthya, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, udupendra, jins, Sanador and kiran

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Spirograph


Your choice

—srikanth @ April 2, 2011

The man on the right has given his name to a popular topic of discussion in mathematics. Identify.

Cracked by: shrik, shrey, dineshk, Rogi, Dibyo, jowens, Manish Achuth, sandman, Debasish, krudebox, arman, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, udupendra, Siddarth Pai, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, raklodramA, abinash sharma, aditthya, Shwetha Maiya, Aravind, Anjul and Atul Mathew

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Monty Hall, of Monty Hall problem fame :)


just this One Time

—srikanth @ April 1, 2011

Identify.

Sorry for the late post folks. Will be posting another one shortly and then we’re back on schedule :)

Cracked by: shrik, jowens, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Debasish, krudebox, aditthya, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla and Raghuvansh

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Bieber-Beta, Wolfram Alpha did this a couple of days ago. Sorry.


All you have to do is keep talking

—srikanth @ March 31, 2011

Identify and connect

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, jowens, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, KK, Nakul, Thejas V R, shrik, Logik, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya and krudebox

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Nim Chimpsky, named as a pun on Noam Chomsky, was a chimp raised in a laboratory environment. Scientists were attempting to disprove Chomsky’s theory that humans were “wired” for language by trying to teach Nim how to speak.


Mirror mirror on the wall...

—srikanth @ March 30, 2011

Plaintext question (essentially an excuse for the wordplay).

The “traditional” effect A makes it seem that nearby stars are moving in relation to faraway stars, when seen from the earth. This is essentailly caused by the motion of the earth around the sun.

The “reverse” of the traditional effect is actually an artifact of gravitational lensing. The outcome is the exact converse of A, and hence named B.

**B?
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Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, jowens, shrik and dineshk

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Xarallap, the exact converse effect of stellar Parallax.


Mirror Mirror on the.. desk?

—devadutta @ March 29, 2011

Yay! Internet obscuridade time!

Who invented this keyboard layout? (1 becomes 2 when you hit caps lock)

Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, shrik, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, KK and dineshk

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Randall Munroe of xkcd!