Boiledbeans

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

I should have posted this on Nov 1

—devadutta @ 23:17

What does this map show?

800px-DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions2

Read Red as “never”, Orange as “Not anymore” and Blue as “Still On”

Cracked by: Chinmaya U.Holla, shrik, sidsen, krudebox, Rogi, AC, Dibyo, Sourya, raklodramA, Abinaya, Raghuvansh, udupendra, SV, Ananth, shenoyvarun86 and Hitesh T S

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Daylight savings time


Fly, tovarisch, fly...

—srikanth @ 20:03

Identify & Connect:

Cracked by Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, AC, Rogi, Anonymous, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, shrik, sidsen, udupendra, eli, daspar, abhishek chakraborty, byslexia, shenoyvarun86, Logik and NSD


Monday, October 26, 2009

Under Construction

—devadutta @ 21:56

Sitter for the day. What’s happening here?

xkcd-geocities-clip

Cracked by: AC, krudebox, Dibyo, shrik, Chinmaya U.Holla, sidsen, Goyal, udupendra, xtremevarun, Ananth, nakul, Rogi, yaksha, Raghuvansh, Gautam Dn, SV, bobo, eli, Merin, piezocake and byslexia


Monday, October 26, 2009

this->guestQuestion();

—devadutta @ 00:22

So…

You are sitting there.. reading random stuff on the Internet and suddenly, you see a page which has some really cool and geeky funda in it. You want to send it to us as a guest question, but you have to open your mailbox, compose a mail and hit send. Hard. We agree.

To simplify matters, we are introducing a simple bookmarklet which you can drag to your bookmarks bar and click on it each time you see an awesome page. Fill in your name and hit send, it will reach us.

It is as simple as saving a bookmark on del.icio.us (I still love the old name) or Google Bookmarks.

Drag the link below to your bookmarks bar.
[this->boiledbeans();](javascript:(function(){var a=window,b=document,c=encodeURIComponent,d=a.open()
and when you reach an awesome page, clicky on the link, to see this
Clipboard01

For those who don’t know how to drag a link to the bookmarks bar, please to read this http://t13n.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/blet/docs/help_kn.html#Store


Sunday, October 25, 2009

Springy...

—srikanth @ 21:30

Obscure trivia for today. Identify:

Cracked by shenoyvarun86, Raghuvansh, eli, sidsen, byslexia, Dibyo, shrik, Chinmaya U.Holla, udupendra, djds4rce, AC, Sourya, Goyal, madhur, Logik, Hitesh T S, xtremevarun, Ananth and Rogi


Saturday, October 24, 2009

SRSLY dude?

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R01996,_Brieftaube_mit_Fotokamera_cropped

Here is another image with the inventor

Julius_Neubronner_with_pigeon_and_camera_1914_cropped

Cracked By: Varun Singh, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, shrik, udupendra, Rogi, yaksha, madhur, byslexia, Ananth, Logik, Chinmaya U.Holla, eli, sidsen, AC and Hitesh T S

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Pigeons in aerial photography – Julius Neubronner


Friday, October 23, 2009

Tick tick tick

—srikanth @ 21:51

Man:

Sound clip: [audio:24oct09q.mp3]

Identify/connect :-)

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rogi, udupendra, Dibyo, shrik, Sourya, byslexia, xtremevarun, krudebox, shenoyvarun86, SV, sidsen, arun, Logik, Chinmaya U.Holla and AC


Thursday, October 22, 2009

Time space curve? That's a lie too!

—devadutta @ 23:54

A bunch of people believe this is how the earth looks. Who?

300px-Azimuthal_Equidistant_N90

They go to such an extent that they say this flag is made secretly in support of the “truth”

180px-Flag_of_the_United_Nations.svg

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, shenoyvarun86, shrik, Dibyo, udupendra, krudebox, raklodramA, AC, Chinmaya U.Holla, Meenakshi Sharma, Varun Singh, Nakul, Shrey Goyal, Rogi, byslexia, Sourya, Gaurav and username


Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Photorealistic explosions?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What controversy connects:

Question stays up for 12 hrs longer :-(

Cracked by udupendra, Logik, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, Rogi, shrik, byslexia, shenoyvarun86, akhi, Chinmaya U.Holla, xtremevarun and Prasad


Tuesday, October 20, 2009

$100

—devadutta @ 23:59

1 originally thought of this idea and designed the concept 2 a long time ago, but the idea was famously brought to life by 3 only a few years ago and 1 now works closely with the project launched by 3.

Identify 1,2, 3 and the project.

  1. 220px-Alan_Kay2 2. Dynabook

3.800px-NNegoponte_USNA_20090415_

This image of 2 will be very useful

dynabook_2

Cracked by: shrik, udupendra, eli, byslexia, emrohit, Chinmaya U.Holla, Goutham DL, Debasish, krudebox, Dibyo, Sourya, Anubhav, sidsen, daspar, Raghuvansh, akhi, Calvin, Ananth, piezocake, Logik, Rogi, AC, xtremevarun, xtremevarun, madhur and abhishek chakraborty

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Alan Kay’s original “DynaBook” idea was to make a computer available to every child. Nicholas Negroponte, MIT prof and Alan Kay’s friend launched the OLPC which is trying to realize this idea.