Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

Jedi training grounds?

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this?

The name of the artist and the installation will do.

Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, Vinay Hegde, KK, shrik, dineshk, Ananth, kallukudian, krudebox, apar, Rahul Rajeev, panrod, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, SV, nishansolo, Raghuvansh, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, username, AmK, N@ngA, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, shenoyvarun86, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, bluegem4, Rahulk and mankuTimma

Show Answer

An artist called Richard Box created this installation, simply called FIELD. It’s just a grid of tubelights planted in the ground under some high-tension powerlines. The tubes pick up ambient electricity and start glowing, creating this eerie effect.


Is that Cuban?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Alright! Obscure meme question time!

This horrible shot by Tiger Woods captured in this awesome picture triggered a recent meme. Which?

The “thing” that triggered the meme is blocked out in red.

Cracked by: jowens, krudebox, N@ngA, Ananth, Raghuvansh, shrik, dineshk, username, Anjul, Bharath, Rogi, Manish Achuth, Ganesh Prasad, Thejas V R, Goyal, shrey, Rahul Rajeev, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishnu, shenoyvarun86, panrod, KaranSaharya, AmK, madhur, Vinay Hegde, kallukudian, aditthya, Santosh, SV, Shwetha Maiya and raklodramA

Show Answer

Smiling Cigar Guy – From Halloween costumes to top 5 search term on Google. He is everywhere.


Wednesday, October 13, 2010

That's kinda unfair...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Where would you find this plaque?

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Vinay Hegde, krudebox, jowens, Ananth, Rogi, AmK, Thejas V R, byslexia, Bharath, kallukudian, Debasish, Goyal, raklodramA, username, v.chandrashekar, N@ngA, Manish Achuth, Prateek Agarwal, Rahul Rajeev, Aparna, vijayaraghavan, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Gursheel Singh Sahni, mankuTimma, nishansolo, Sumanth Patlolla, panrod, shenoyvarun86, KaranSaharya, Dibyo and madhur

Show Answer

The pic shows a plaque outside a mine at Ytterby. This one mine, strangely enough, has been the location for the discovery of four different rare earth metals in the periodic table!


Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Starcraft

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is happening here?

These pictures were taken in totally different places.

This post is an acid test for AutoRaja :)

P.S: Please note that all posts will be manually screened after AutoRaja does its job

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Bharath, raklodramA, SV, jowens, Goyal, username, Ananth, krudebox, Logik, Dibyo, Rogi, Manish Achuth, AmK, Keerthi Kiran M, kallukudian, Niranjan G, Vinay Hegde, Thejas V R, N@ngA, Rahul Rajeev and dineshk

Show Answer

Observatories shoot a laser to the sky to create a fake star. They then focus on the laser to calibrate their telescopes. This results in images with stunning clarity.


Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Behold the auto correction robot: AutoRaja!

—devadutta @ 01:41

We have some really exciting news! We have successfully deployed a robot called “AutoRaja” on our servers which automatically moderates questions at the end of 3 days, assigns points and posts the answer!

AutoRaja uses a very sophisticated fuzzy search method to detect correct answers and assign points! (It is based on the Bitap algorithm, no less!)

Thanks to AutoRaja, from now on,

  • Scores will be up to date
  • Medals will be assigned on time and
  • Most importantly, answers come out automatically, so you dont have to wait!

Like all robots, AutoRaja can not yet replace humans, so we will review points assigned manually too. Until we do the review, you can see a note left by AutoRaja stating that the post was modded by it and not by humans. So, in case there is a discrepancy in scores, you know why.

Let us know what you think!

Also, we can make this project open source, if we get at least 50 comments on this post asking us to do it. Cleaning up code to release level is hard work :)


Monday, October 11, 2010

2b|^2b

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this all about?

Cracked by: udupendra, Logik, Ananth, shrik, Anjul, Bharath, krudebox, Thejas V R, Dibyo, username, mankuTimma, kallukudian, Rogi, shrey, akhi, N@ngA, Sumanth Patlolla, Raghuvansh, byslexia, dineshk, AmK and Manish Achuth

Show Answer

This is a guide to building logic gates, and other similar constructs, in MineCraft! This pastime is becoming quite serious of late, with people even going so far as to attempt building complete computers in MineCraft.


Sunday, October 10, 2010

In the shadow of the pipe...

—srikanth @ 23:59

: :: : X

Solve for X.

PS: Happy binary 42 day everyone.

Cracked by: udupendra, username, Logik, shrik, shrey, Mikey, Ananth, Aparna, Goyal, Rogi, Bharath, AmK, mankuTimma, Thejas V R, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, dineshk, varuns88, v.chandrashekar, jowens and byslexia


Saturday, October 9, 2010

Estoy en su base, la exploración de su lugar

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who connects

See the clouds in 3. KTHX

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Goyal, Bharath, krudebox, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, username, byslexia, nishansolo, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Logik, Ananth, Rahul Rajeev, udupendra, Anjul, Rogi, kallukudian, Thejas V R, N@ngA and dineshk

Show Answer

Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan connects.


Friday, October 8, 2010

Boiledbeans has .31 milli units of this

—devadutta @ 23:59

What “official” unit of measurement is named after this guy and what is it used to measure?

Although he needs no introduction, he played this role

Very sorry for the delayed post folks.

Cracked by: jowens, Dibyo, Logik, Rogi, byslexia, Harsh, Rahul Rajeev, Sumanth Patlolla, shrey, N@ngA, Vinay Hegde, shrik, Aparna, Ananth, v.chandrashekar, Manish Achuth, krudebox, SV, Bharath, Thejas V R, dineshk, username, Shwetha Maiya, nishansolo, udupendra, Mikey and AmK

Show Answer

Quoting Shwetha Maiya


Thursday, October 7, 2010

A moment of silence.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify:

Cracked by: jowens, Ananth, dineshk, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, SV, shrik, Rogi, v.chandrashekar, N@ngA, Goyal, krudebox, Thejas V R, Rahul Rajeev, Logik, udupendra, Dibyo, username, kallukudian, byslexia, Vinay Hegde, shenoyvarun86 and Shwetha Maiya

Show Answer

Quoting Shwetha Maiya