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Monday, November 8, 2010

Bantu Bantu.. T-Shirtu Bantu!

—devadutta @ 01:09

They are here! The T-Shirts are here!

We will start shipping them out as soon as tomorrow and you will receive an individual note when we have sent it out to you!
When you receive your shirt, do send us a picture of you wearing it!

A special thanks to **Hema **for all her help with the t-shirts! Thanks Hema, we owe you one!

More Pictures:


Love me or Hate me

—devadutta @ 23:59

This guy is responsible for creating one of the most annoying things ever in human-computer interaction. Who he?

To be fair, some people love his creation.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, jowens, byslexia, apar, username, dineshk, Rogi, mankuTimma, udupendra, shrik, raklodramA, Dhan, Logik, Pawankumar Hegde, Thejas V R and Vinayak

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Kevan Atteberry, the creator of Clippy.


Friday, November 5, 2010

The sum is apparently 42

—srikanth @ 23:59

Internet obscuridae: The items below are a reference to something. What?

This question will eventually replace the YC one I posted on the 5th.

Cracked by: shrik, raklodramA, username, mankuTimma, Sumanth Patlolla, Mukul, SV, apar, v.chandrashekar, jowens, Rogi, Bharath, dineshk, Mikey, Pawankumar Hegde, byslexia, SS, krudebox, Thejas V R, Raghuvansh, udupendra, Rahulk, nishansolo, Ananth and Dibyo


Thursday, November 4, 2010

Ban this from the sky.

—devadutta @ 23:59

Borderline non-geek question today.

Who is the director of this?

Happy DeepavaLi folks!

P.S: Needless to say, the flower pot (fireworks) you see is not a part of the question.

Cracked by: vijayaraghavan, Raghuvansh, username, udupendra, Thejas V R, Rogi, nishansolo, Ananth, Dhan, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Pawankumar Hegde, krudebox, jowens, dineshk, soumya g, Logik, apar and yaksha

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The one and only, Bansky!


Wednesday, November 3, 2010

I'll follow you, no problem

—devadutta @ 23:59

Which physics concept connects the following? (Put the name of the concept please)

Cracked by: udupendra, Dhan, SS, Ananth, apar, Rogi, Pawankumar Hegde, shrik, jowens, krudebox, aditthya, Anjul, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Ep and Vijay

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Drafting or Slipstreaming, where people/birds use formations like following someone closely or forming a V to attain aerodynamic advantages.


Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Not James Bond

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from krudebox %gqh%. Thanks saar!

Who does this famous van belong to?

In case you cannot squint your eyes enough to see the drawings on the van, you can look at this license plate

Cracked by: Rogi, shrik, apar, jowens, Vijay, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, SS, byslexia, Pawankumar Hegde, Thejas V R, krudebox, mankuTimma, username, dineshk, Vinay Nair Karath, Dhan, vijayaraghavan and Shwetha Maiya

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Feynman Van!


Monday, November 1, 2010

Wait, so he's not a bad guy?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Who is this a reference to?

Cracked by: jowens, udupendra, Ananth, shrik, apar, shrey, username, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Bharath, kallukudian, Thejas V R, SS, Pawankumar Hegde, krudebox, dineshk, Dhan and Rogi

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Seth Godin - became famous for what was called Permission Marketing (The technique almost has a hint of honesty involved). Yahoo used his ‘how to create a Purple Cow’ method, and hence this statue as a reference. udupendra should probably be disqualified from answering this one.


Sunday, October 31, 2010

My mind reels with sarcastic answers.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this, and what would you have to do to get one of these?

Cracked by: udupendra, apar, Rogi, Bharath, dineshk, Raghuvansh, Ananth, username, Thejas V R, aditthya, mankuTimma, shrik, SS, grey_matters, jowens, Manish Achuth, byslexia and Pawankumar Hegde

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The Silver Snoopy award - NASA gives it out for excellence in safety on manned flights.


Saturday, October 30, 2010

Compute. Compute.

—devadutta @ 23:59

The machine you see in this video is a pretty famous “computer”. Identify and tell us what it was used for.

Video Link for the Flash challenged.

P.S: The search for a decent GUI based video editor is over! The winner is PiTiVi.

Cracked by: jowens, Rogi, Mikey, Raghuvansh, username, Dibyo, apar, shrik, SS, Thejas V R, udupendra, Ananth, dineshk, Bharath and Pawankumar Hegde

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MONIAC – The awesome economy simulator built by Bill Phillips. Its an analogue computer which uses water to do its computation.


Friday, October 29, 2010

Da-ba-dee da-ba-dai... da-ba-deee da-ba-dai!

—srikanth @ 23:59

(…and a second question today to make up for the delay in posting yesterday’s :-))

This metal has historically been used as a dye - especially for glass (1). Its etymology lies in (2). What metal?

Cracked by: udupendra, Rogi, Raghuvansh, apar, jowens, Dibyo, SS, Bharath, krudebox, Mo, Anjul, Logik, Rahul Rajeev, Kent, buk, Sumanth Patlolla, username, Thejas V R, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Mikey, AmK, shrik, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya and Pawankumar Hegde

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Cobalt. It is named after the mischievous creature of German folklore called a Kobold. Miners named it Cobalt because the typical cobalt they mined was fused with Arsenic, and often caused them a lot of trouble, and they blamed it on the Kobolds!