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I should have dropped out of High School

—devadutta @ October 22, 2010

Making a special appearance on the Simpsons. Who?

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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)?

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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?

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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?

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byslexia tried to beat Auto Raja, and kinda managed.


Golden Eggs

—devadutta @ October 17, 2010

Story of which game?

video link

Fake cookie points if you can name the mysterious creature that “appears” in the end.

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The super awesome, super successful and super addictive game, Angry Birds. Here, they are promoting a specific in-game purchase called “Mighty Eagle”.


How do you write that funny 'beta' looking thing, anyway?

—srikanth @ October 16, 2010

What weapon connects?

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The Coilgun.


67 inches

—devadutta @ October 16, 2010

First of all, we congratulate Rogi on recording an unbeaten run-length of 356 correct answers in a row! That is a complete calendar year of posting correct answers on BB! Just awesome! Keep it up, Sire!

This question is a repeat and the above statement is total nuts.
I am never posting questions at 4AM again. EVAR!

Everyone gets points to for this question and the other question you see is a make-up question to remedy the repeat.

What are these people doing on this bridge (2) ?

Hint: Subject is what Google calculator returns when you search the answer

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The “official” unit to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge in Boston is the Smoot. 1 Smoot = Height of Oliver Smoot, who, measured the length of the Harvard bridge using his body as a fraternity pledge. The dude went on to become the chairman of ANSI, which makes it all the more funny that a non-standard unit of measurement is named after the head of a standards institution :)


Jedi training grounds?

—srikanth @ October 15, 2010

What is this?

The name of the artist and the installation will do.

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An artist called Richard Box created this installation, simply called FIELD. It’s just a grid of tubelights planted in the ground under some high-tension powerlines. The tubes pick up ambient electricity and start glowing, creating this eerie effect.


Is that Cuban?

—devadutta @ October 14, 2010

Alright! Obscure meme question time!

This horrible shot by Tiger Woods captured in this awesome picture triggered a recent meme. Which?

The “thing” that triggered the meme is blocked out in red.

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Smiling Cigar Guy – From Halloween costumes to top 5 search term on Google. He is everywhere.


That's kinda unfair...

—srikanth @ October 13, 2010

Where would you find this plaque?

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The pic shows a plaque outside a mine at Ytterby. This one mine, strangely enough, has been the location for the discovery of four different rare earth metals in the periodic table!