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2009

lolcats are so last year

—devadutta @ 23:59

Latest meme spreading like fire on the internet. It goes by many names, tell us any one.

aRhHq

The one above is my favorite.. here is another awesome one

wppyr

Cracked by everyone. Namely, Raghuvansh, Dibyo, AC, Chinmaya U.Holla, raklodramA, sidsen, krudebox, shrik, foobar, Mo, akhi, PrK, udupendra, Sourya, varuns88, byslexia, Rogi, Ps and Logik


Introducing.. Medals and Trophies

—devadutta @ 13:01

Like some of you noticed over the weekend, we have started rolling out a new awards system.

You will now be assigned various medals/trophies based on your achievements on Boiledbeans!

Here are some of the medals that are already impemented

Gold
Silver
Bronze

Respectively for the top 3 scorers of each month. These medals are applied retroactively, so even if you topped the monthly chart some 20 months ago, you will still see a medal!

Trophies that are coming soon..

  • GQ Hero – From now on, if a question you send gets published, you will get a trophy. Unfortunately, we cannot apply this retroactively
  • FIRST!!! – Answer a question first, get a trophy. Will be applied retroactively
  • mod 20 – A trophy for every 20 points you score on BB. Will be applied retroactively

and finally the big one for “all time top scorer” and “all time best run length” and…
Trophy_Gold

Current month’s top scorer”. Yep, this is rolling trophy. Relatively easy to get, hard to keep :)

These will be visible in detail on your profile pages and a summary of your medals/trophies will be displayed below each of your comment. A nice way to show it off!

So, let us know what you think!

If you have any other trophy ideas, post it here as a comment!


Sunday, November 8, 2009

May your journey be free of BSOD

—srikanth @ 21:30

What OS?

50e609156d2b8ac3ec07040e4a71a078 02ff5b3f778fbf39b8ac4701bd360f20 a8e15056e3d9ddc3a91c4ad0e8ccc1e6

Cracked by udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, Dibyo, anupcshan, sidsen, AC, krudebox, Rogi, Raghuvansh, byslexia, shenoyvarun86, foobar, shrik and Ps


Saturday, November 7, 2009

You Almighty

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect to a super popular game

crouching_tiger_hidden_dragon1 good-will-hunting-dvd-cover

dmw200px-Drevil_million_dollars

5. lightning bolt

5 is the main character in the game

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, sidsen and varuns88

Awesome!


Friday, November 6, 2009

Did you say you wanted to know what I was doing?

—devadutta @ 22:51

Guest question from udupendra. Gracious Amigo.

What it is?

debugging_twiredup

Por favor envíe sus preguntas la [email protected] , o utilizar este [this->boiledbeans();](javascript:(function(){var%20a=window,b=document,c=encodeURIComponent,d=a.open()

Cracked by: sidsen, Raghuvansh, Rogi, AC, Dibyo, udupendra, Abinaya, varuns88, Amarendra Kumar, Chinmaya U.Holla and Logik

Show Answer

A tweeting toilet. Yes, you read it right.


Thursday, November 5, 2009

lim x -> 1.0?

—srikanth @ 23:59

(1) developed a scale commonly depicted as (2). (3) extrapolated it and says that we are approximately around 0.7 on that scale today. This scale is a staple theme in sci-fi. Identify 1, 3 and the scale.

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Abinaya, Dibyo, Rogi, Ananth, krudebox, Logik, shrik, sidsen, Chinmaya U.Holla, akhi, Sourya, udupendra, yaksha, p vs np, byslexia, Ananth, varuns88, piezocake and shenoyvarun86


Wednesday, November 4, 2009

D5PQ - Set 3

—srikanth @ 23:59

The third (and final) set of questions of Dibyo’s 500 point quiz.

Set 3 » Question 1

What is this?

Set 3 » Question 2

Who’s he?

Set 3 » Question 3

Logo of?

A few stage-2 cracks, no stage-3 cracks!

sidsen(4), Dibyo(4), Logik(2), akhi(2), raklodramA, udupendra, shrik, AC, Rogi and Mr.Bay Leaf


Tuesday, November 3, 2009

D5PQ - Set 2

—srikanth @ 23:59

The second set of questions of Dibyo’s 500 point quiz.

Set 2 » Question 1

Identify

1a6b2451ed405d8878a67fa7b44fc805

Set 2 » Question 2

What’s blanked out?

1dbbdf8c395e06e137770b7e552d4c47

Set 2 » Question 3

Who is this man?

79b07af7f9a68ffe582f4a7e92ce8b2d

Some stage-2 cracks, one stage-3 crack! Congrats sidsen!

Answers:

Quoting raghuvansh

1 : Ajax FC
2 : Project Caribou
3 : Paul Buchheit

Connect is GMail – built using Ajax, codenamed Caribou during development and developed by Paul Buchheit.

sidsen(6), Logik(4), Raghuvansh(4), Debasish(4), Rogi(4), shrik(4), udupendra(4), Dibyo(3), krudebox(2), AC(2), quaziluffy and Mo


Monday, November 2, 2009

Dibyo's 500 point quiz

—srikanth @ 23:59

Congratulations are in order to Dibyo who recently reached (and crossed) the 500 point mark! Great work Mr D!

To mark and celebrate this, we contacted him for a question and he replied. However, he’s not sent one question, he’s sent nine. Yes, nine! And they’re not just “direct” questions, they are of a special format.

Dibyo’s 500 point quiz is a Stage-3 format quiz!

Format:
So, the format of this quiz: there are a total of nine questions. The answers to the first three questions are connected to each other (say C-1). The answers to the next three are connected (say C-2) and the final three are connected (say C-3). Further, C-1, C-2, and C-3 are connected, and this connect is the so-called “stage-3”.

Rules, points:
We will be posting three questions per day (all 3 questions in one post). So on each day, you can potentially win 4 points (1 for each answer + 1 point for the connect of the day). If you can get the stage-3 answer on day 1, you get 3 points. If you can get it on day 2 you get 2 points, and a single point for getting it on day 3. No negative marks for wrong guesses. One guess every day max. Please post your stage-3 guesses and as SEPARATE comments from your daily answers!


So, without further ado, here’s Set 1:

Set 1 » Question 1:

Set 1 » Question 2

Identify the logo

Set 1 » Question 3:

Who’s the manufacturer?

Some stage 2 cracks; no stage 3 cracks.

Answers:

  1. Squaresoft +Enix merger to make Square Enix
  2. IETF
  3. BMW

Stage 2 Connect: April fools pranks

Logik(4), AC(4), Raghuvansh(4), sidsen(4), Rogi(4), shrik(4), Dibyo(4), Dibyo(4), krudebox(2) and udupendra(2)


Sunday, November 1, 2009

The doctor is far away

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple one.

Connect

TD24Picasso TD24Hitchcock TD24Gandhi

TD24Edison TD24Dylan TD24Davis

The list is not exhaustive.

Cracked by: shrik, p vs np, udupendra, Chinmaya U.Holla, krudebox, sidsen, shenoyvarun86, akhi, Rogi, Mihir Rege, Raghuvansh, quaziluffy, AC, arun, Dibyo, abhishek chakraborty, byslexia and Logik

p vs np, thanks! :)