Boiledbeans

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June 2008

Friday, June 20, 2008

This has my name on it twice!

—devadutta @ 22:59

First recipients of this medal. Interestingly, the medal is named after one of its first recipients (the guy on the left). Which medal?

Cracked by: piezocake , varuns88 , akhi , Rithwik , Atul Mathew , joe , Goyal , udupendra , madhur , svgreatest , duriel , Bharath , pratap , Shakeel , malcaluffin , Rey de Vaqueiros , Vinayak K , Dibyo.

piezocake, varuns88, akhi, Rithwik K, Atul Mathew, joe, Goyal, udupendra, madhur, svgreatest, duriel, Bharath, pratap, Shakeel, malcaluffin, Rey de Vaqueiros, vinayak and Dibyo


I know its "quick"!

—devadutta @ 21:16

Simple one…
Thanks to a collaboration effort from many big players in this type of websites, you will be seeing 1 instead of 2 when you visit them using Firefox. 1 is also being standardized, so just like 2, you may see it on a day to day basis on any standards compliant browser in the near future.

Which type of websites are we talking about?

  1. 2.

Cracked by: Shakeel , kiran , varuns88 , vinod , joe , udupendra , jayanth , duriel , Dibyo.

Shakeel, kiran, varuns88, vinod, joe, udupendra, jayanth, duriel and Dibyo


Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Understanding edward nashton

—srikanth @ 20:53

Connect these cities

to this organization that was very useful to the Allies during WW2, and became terribly famous in many recent literary works.

Cracked by Dibyo , akhi , varuns88 , joe , vinod , duriel , Rey de Vaqueiros , udupendra and Tathagata Chatterjee.

Dibyo, akhi, varuns88, joe, vinod, duriel, Rey de Vaqueiros, udupendra and Tathagata Chatterjee


Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Bad Robot!

—devadutta @ 22:27

Connect

Link to the video
p.s: Today is Firefox 3 release day. Get it if you have not got it already!

p.p.s: Yes, the robot in 1 was spotted on BB earlier..

Cracked by: joe , varuns88 , duriel , akhi , Dibyo , madhur , udupendra , shashank.

joe, varuns88, duriel, akhi, Dibyo, madhur, udupendra and shashank


Monday, June 16, 2008

Not GIGO?

—srikanth @ 22:53

What is this strange device?

A convoluted clue:

(Explain the clue for bonus points :-) )

Cracked by Rohan , akhi , udupendra , varuns88 , vinod and jayanth.

Rohan, akhi, udupendra, varuns88, vinod and jayanth


Sunday, June 15, 2008

The art of writing checks

—devadutta @ 20:53

Easy one to begin the week.

What do you have to do to get a check like this, which famous computer scientist gives it and why is it $2.56?

Cracked by: Goyal , Rey de Vaqueiros , VikraM , Keerthi Kiran M , duriel , akhi , Atul Mathew , Ganesh Prasad , Rohan , jayanth , vinod , Ajay Parasuram , uma , Rithwik , gvivekcbe , joe , svgreatest , Abid , Abid , udupendra , madhur , priyananda , varuns88 , Debasish , pratap , yaksha , Dibyo , Biki , shenoyvarun86 , Tathagata Chatterjee , piezocake! phew!!

Goyal, Rey de Vaqueiros, VikraM, Keerthi Kiran M, duriel, akhi, Atul Mathew, Ganesh Prasad, Rohan, jayanth, vinod, Ajay Parasuram, uma, Rithwik K, gvivekcbe, joe, svgreatest, Abid, Abid, udupendra, madhur, priyananda, varuns88, Debasish, pratap, yaksha, Dibyo, Biki, shenoyvarun86, Tathagata Chatterjee and piezocake


Saturday, June 14, 2008

Captured...

—srikanth @ 22:32

Identify this iconic device, the brand that it created, and the reason for its fame:

Just some of the thousands of possible clues (for the brand)

Cracked by varuns88 , jayanth , udupendra , akhi , Rohan , duriel , Goyal , piezocake , Dibyo , VikraM , priyananda , ajayparasuram , pratap , vivekusc , bobo , Keerthi Kiran M and madhur!

varuns88, jayanth, udupendra, akhi, Rohan, duriel, Goyal, piezocake, Dibyo, VikraM, priyananda, ajayparasuram, pratap, vivekusc, bobo, Keerthi Kiran M and madhur


Friday, June 13, 2008

Aaa-choo!

—devadutta @ 22:57

X was originally designed during the WW II to be used in 1. But today, it is used for other reasons and you can find it in many places, including the pockets of some people. What is X?

Only varuns88 got it! Nice work dude! (Jayanth also got it, late though)

varuns88 and jayanth


Thursday, June 12, 2008

Arbit

—srikanth @ 21:17

Identify (name the book):

Cracked by Goyal , Rey de Vaqueiros , varuns88 and duriel.

Goyal, Rey de Vaqueiros, varuns88 and duriel


Wednesday, June 11, 2008

300!

—devadutta @ 22:23


Yesterday’s final question of the theme round marked the 300th post on Boiledbeans! In fact, the theme round was a way to celebrate this.

It has been an amazing 300 days for us. We have loved every bit of it.
Tell us what you think of Boiledbeans, What you would like to see in the future and what would make you come back to Boiledbeans over and over again.

Please leave it as a comment to this post.

What we would like to see from you guys is more participation in the form of guest questions. That way, Boiledbeans will have a wide variety of content.

Again, thanks for coming back and keep telling your friends about Boiledbeans!

(The image is of galaxy NGC 300. Courtesy NASA :) )