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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

So, not the Bunny™ then?

—srikanth @ 23:59

ID the bot in the pic please. It was just in the news announcing an attempt to do something unheard off pretty soon :)

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The Panasonic Evolta. Panasonic just announced that the Evolta is going to try and run the Ironman Triathlon :-o


You win some you lose some

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s happening here?

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John Preskill shows off the book he won in a bet against Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne (not in pic) about the black hole information paradox


Monday, September 12, 2011

R.I.P

—devadutta @ 19:19

Guest question from %gqh% shrik. Thanks Saar!

Tribute to a great man. Identify.

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Michael Hart of Gutenberg Project. R.I.P.


Sunday, September 11, 2011

NO!!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Fun question.

What is this?

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Moeny shredding alarm clock which will well, shred your money if the alarm isn’t turned off in time. –krudebox


Saturday, September 10, 2011

This is not a game..

—devadutta @ 23:59

Though it shares it’s name with one.

Simple… Identify the gizmo.

Guest question from %gqh% Rogi.

Hint: Think about four different color buttons.

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Edmund Berkeley’s Simon


Friday, September 9, 2011

Luminous

—devadutta @ 23:59

Guest question from %gqh% Rahulk. Thanks Sire!

Connect

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Fun Fun Fun!

—srikanth @ 23:59

It was either named after (1) or (2). What?

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Erlang –


Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Ah so.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the animal in (1) [two examples] that became famous because of (2). Pseudobonus points for full story. Points will be given for the ‘original’ name as well as any decently close approximations!


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Heikegani were used by Carl Sagan in his popular science television show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage as an example of unintentional artificial selection


Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Nothing to do with music, apparently

—srikanth @ 23:59

Obscure software question, here we go - identify (1) named after (2)

PS: Sorry for the delay folks. Question stays up longer!

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GNU Octave


Monday, September 5, 2011

Back to the lab again.

—srikanth @ 14:28

Kinda continuing from the theme of the previous question - connect:

Click for big. This is not an exhaustive list :)

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Wilhelm Schlenk, Florence - Italy, Emil Erlenmeyer and Ernst Wilhelm Buchner - typical ‘flasks’ in chem labs around the world are named after these :)