Yay obscure meme question time! Identify the animal.

Pseudo-bonus points for full context.

Cracked by: Tushar S, Logik, puneet_k, Raghuvansh, jowens, Kaustubh, Rogi, Rahul Rajeev, dineshk, Bharath, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, buk, vinayaknp, Siddarth Pai, Ananth, Moju21, Higgers, v.chandrashekar, Prachi, shrik, wanderlust, sandesh, udupendra, Thejas V R, syed muneer ali, lotuseater, Sohail Nijas, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, Mo and duriel

This question (including the title clue) comes to us from %gqh% Rogi!

What is this device?

Cracked by: Rogi and jowens

The successor to this diagram below is more famous. What is this an example of?

Cracked by: dineshk, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, jowens and Anjul

Lots of people tried the treasure hunt, but only 6 people finished it! It was a fairly difficult puzzle, and if you finished it, please to put a pat on your back!

The Winners:

**Dha **finished the treasure hunt first! Congrats Dha! You have won a Boiledbeans t-shirt!

Logik finished very closely behind Dha. Both Dha and Logik get 5 points!

The following people also finished the hunt and get 3 points each.
udupendra
shrik
AnthraX101
Rogi
Dha, Rogi and AnthraX101, please leave a comment here so we can give you points.

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Answers:Stage 1: The message was a rot 13 cipher. Decrypting it read

Step 1: Do what the Oracle said second
Step 2: Do what the owl says
Step 3: Go to Step 2
What the Oracle asked Neo in the second movie was to “go to the Source”. So, if you saw the source of Boiledbeans, you could see an ASCII art owl which looked like this

/ ___ ___
/ / @ / @ \
\ _/_/ /
_//||
/ /\\//
| |\\\
\ \\\
______/\\
||||

Roman Ramanujan run javascript for fun?
Stage 2: Do what the owl says.
Roman Ramanujan = Ramanujan Number in Roman numerals, which is 1729 in Roman Numerals is MDCCXXIX.
Javascript being the next hint, owl asked you to look for a Javascript file with that name.

So, there was a javascript file named MDCCXXIX.js included in Boiledbeans source.

Stage 3: The Javascript file had the following contents
/*

The year just passed, pass the new year
Mod it by 1e3 before so its near
Fruit goes in the bar, oh dear!
Leave the extension and have no fear

*/

function takeIt(n){
return n
So, if you look at the poem, it asked you to pass 2011 % 1000 into the function and put the result in the bar.
So, you had to go to http://boiledbeans.net/89/

Stage 4:
There, you say a blowfish + a alphanumeric string and an equation.
The equation has roots -sqrt(3) and 3.

You cannot do much with the first root. But, if you add the 2nd root, i.e. 3 to the alphanumeric string, you will get
fWE3v7

Now, the blowfish is actually the logo of bit.ly
So, when you concatenate bit.ly with the string, you get

http://bit.ly/fWE3v7

Which is the final answer!

Congrats to those who made it here!

Identify the location in (1). (2) is a clue.

Cracked by: shrik, Pawankumar Hegde, jowens, Kaustubh, Rogi, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, Bharath, puneet_k, v.chandrashekar, lanu, dineshk, Qbrain, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, Rahul Rajeev, Sanador, Siddarth Pai, Ananth and Shwetha Maiya

See stage-1 for the rules.

4 variables here (H, I, J, K). Get all 4 right to get 1 point.

H and E were coworkers at legendary organization **I. **In fact H asked E to apply directly to the head of F, which was how E got his job there in the first place! H was hailed as an internet visionary due to his earlier achievements, his opinions of late (e.g. anti-Open Source, anti-Wireless Networks) have been radically wrong and he has had to eat his words in public on one occasion.

K was the first commercial success of J, the company that created G. J drew heavily on the work done at I to create K. A (probably false) legend has it that I was allowed to make a pre-IPO purchase of stock in J in exchange for some technical knowledge-transfer. I tried (and failed) to sue J later! F also sued J about similar matters, and was actually successful, a lawsuit that has had ramifications until the present day.

Cracked by dineshk, Kaustubh, Rogi, jowens, p vs np, puneet_k, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Bharath, Pawankumar Hegde, madhur, Raghuvansh, vinayaknp, lanu and Qbrain

See stage-1 for the rules.

4 variables here (D, E, F, G). Get all 4 right to get 1 point.

D was a famous syntax convention invented much, much later by famous programmer **E during **his employment at F. Although D and B sound similar the connection between the two is, at best, a play on words. The only similarity between D and B is that both are named after the nation-of-origin of their creator. C and F on the other hand, have had a fairly long and fairly amenable relationship. C and F teamed up hoping to pre-empt the announcement of device G last year, but that flopped. Although they hit the market a month before G, no one heard of their device.

Cracked by dineshk, Kaustubh, Rogi, apar, jowens, p vs np, puneet_k, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Bharath, Pawankumar Hegde, madhur, lanu, Raghuvansh, Qbrain, vinayaknp, udupendra and Siddarth Pai

A slight twist. Three questions, back-to-back, all related. All you need to do is tell us what the variables A through K stand for.

Anyone who gets the whole set gets a bonus point. All questions remain open for 3 more days!

This post has 3 variables (A, B, C). Get all 3 right to get 1 point :-)

Eastern-european logician A invented B around 1920 in order to simplify sentences used in propositional calculus. B remained in use largely in logic and didn’t see much interest in mainstream arithmetic. Despite this, a “reversed” version of B became popular with some electronic devices, notably those from company C! The devices from C, especially, have become iconic and gained a cult following. (Though many people consider them to be merely a curiosity, C’s devices have some very advanced arithmetic in them and a Turing Award winning UCBerkeley maths/CS prof was involved in their design!).

Cracked by Rogi(2), dineshk(2), Kaustubh(2), jowens(2), p vs np(2), puneet_k(2), Sumanth Patlolla(2), shrik(2), Dibyo(2), vinayaknp(2), Bharath(2), Pawankumar Hegde(2), madhur(2), Qbrain(2), lanu(2), Goyal, buk, Anjul, apar, Siddarth Pai and Aravind

And these people got the **bonus point! **

Rogi, dineshk, Kaustubh, jowens, p vs np, puneet_k, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Dibyo, vinayaknp, Bharath, Pawankumar Hegde, madhur, Qbrain, lanu,

In homage to what?

Cracked by: dineshk, Atul Mathew, puneet_k, Qbrain, duriel, Pawankumar Hegde, Rogi, Anjul, Ananth, Manish Achuth, jowens, Rahul Rajeev, Moju21, shrik, v.chandrashekar, Thejas V R, vijayaraghavan, Kaustubh, apar, Bharath and aditthya

Where would you find this?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Rahul Rajeev, Tushar S, Pawankumar Hegde, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, jowens, Kaustubh, v.chandrashekar, Bharath, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, lanu, apar, Sanador, mankuTimma, Qbrain, xeqtor, duriel, aditthya, Ananth and Moju21