Boiledbeans

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February 2011

Friday, February 18, 2011

They should have these for the internet as well

—srikanth @ 23:59

Let’s go plaintext for today :-) A few samples from what?

“I: Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.
III: Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.
V: All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
VI: As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
VIII: Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.
X: For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance.”

All those of you who Google this answer please set the evil bit in your posts, and we will discard them accordingly :p

Cracked by: jowens, Ananth, dineshk, Rogi, Dibyo, KK, aditthya, Bharath, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, srinivasan, Raghuvansh, Moju21, Hari Parameswaran, shrik, Appu S, Nanda, Thejas V R, rohanquizzer, Logik, jins, Siddarth Pai, krudebox, Manish Achuth, raklodramA, Riyaz Usman, Anjul, Mikey, Shwetha Maiya and buk

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The Cartoon Laws of Physics, originally “O’Donnell’s Laws of Cartoon Motion”, printed in Esquire, but most often refers to the reproduction in the “IEEE Institute”, 10/94; V.18 #7 p.12.


I for one welcome our new computer overlords

—devadutta @ 23:59

First, congrats to jowens for reaching a runlength of 100! You won yourself a Star of Honor %soh%, sire!

Fully framed guest question from %gqh% udupendra. Thanks saar!

What is being compared here?

P.S: We have a lot of unpublished guest questions waiting in our inbox. We are going to do a GQ Run soon. If you have sent us a question(s), this is to let you know that we have not forgotten about it(them)! :)

You can send us questions at [email protected]

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, jowens, Vijayaraghavan, Siddarth Pai, Manish Achuth, shrey, Riyaz Usman, shrik, Martin Antony, Bharath, udupendra, Thejas V R, vinayaknp, Ananth, dineshk, Dibyo, SV, srinivasan, Hari Parameswaran, Logik, KK, Higgers, krudebox and Shwetha Maiya

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Watson Vs Wolfram Alpha


Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Mickey-mouse organizations.

—srikanth @ 23:59

This question is multiple “firsts” for Boiledbeans, I think.

What’s the story behind these two sets of images?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Ananth, Logik, jowens, Rogi, shrik, Mikey, Bharath, KK, vinayaknp, Goyal, Sumanth Patlolla, Ashish, krudebox, Siddarth Pai, Rahulk, Thejas V R, rohanquizzer, lanu, jins, Riyaz Usman, raklodramA, Manish Achuth, udupendra, Sandesh, dineshk, teju, Appu S, Martin Antony and Dibyo


Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Cease and desist

—srikanth @ 23:59

Simple enough - Logo of what/who?

Cracked by: dineshk, Ananth, Rogi, Sandesh, KK, vinayaknp, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, raklodramA, Bharath, Sanador, krudebox, rohanquizzer, shrik, Appu S, Sohail Nijas, Thejas V R, lanu, Shwetha Maiya, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Riyaz Usman, Siddarth Pai, aditthya, syed muneer ali, Crackedpot, udupendra, jowens, v.chandrashekar, Logik, varun, vkamath, Rahulk, Manish Achuth, srinivasan and teju

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The CyanogenMod - an alternate firmware for Android phones that allows users to get a lot more features.


Monday, February 14, 2011

Spin it...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the location, and give us one techy reason why this was all over the news recently.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Riyaz Usman, Rogi, Sandesh, jowens, KK, vinayaknp, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, krudebox, Crackedpot, jins, Manoj Venkat, v.chandrashekar, udupendra, Logik, dineshk, shrik, lanu, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Shwetha Maiya, Mikey and Rahulk

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The Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. It is rumoured that this is the main target of the super-sophisticated Stuxnet worm.


Sunday, February 13, 2011

You are now entering...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Famous pinball machine. On what theme?

Cracked by: jowens, Rogi, Raghuvansh, KK, vinayaknp, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, Crackedpot, Ananth, rohanquizzer, Thejas V R, Riyaz Usman, Sandesh, Siddarth Pai, raklodramA, lanu, shrik, krudebox, Appu S, udupendra, v.chandrashekar, jins, Bharath, Sanador, dineshk, Mikey, Charu and Shwetha Maiya

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The Twilight Zone - the famous TV anthology.


Saturday, February 12, 2011

Like the zodiac sign?

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the character

His creator is more famous than he was:

PS: Death to the gremlins!

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, viper1619, KK, Rogi, vinayaknp, Ananth, raklodramA, krudebox, Manish Achuth, Thejas V R, Bharath, lanu, Dibyo, shrik, v.chandrashekar, Siddarth Pai, jowens, udupendra, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Riyaz Usman and Shwetha Maiya

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Dev Null, voiced by Leo Laporte - the host of Twit.tv . An animated character on an MSNBC show The site.


Friday, February 11, 2011

Think before you name your kids

—devadutta @ 23:59

This dude, started selling 2 with his last name as the brand. This made people think that the colloquial term for X originated from his name. But, ironically, the term had completely different older roots and this guy just happened to have that in his last name and even more ironically decided to sell 2.

Who is he?

Cracked by: Logik, Raghuvansh, Riyaz Usman, Rogi, dineshk, teju, KK, Sandesh, Anjul, jowens, Manish Achuth, buk, Varun, Sanador, Siddarth Pai, Vishnu, vinayaknp, shrik, Jerin Philip, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, Crackedpot, Ananth, Appu S, Bharath, Shwetha Maiya, varuns88, viper1619, Aravind, krudebox, raklodramA, lanu, rohanquizzer, Dibyo, v.chandrashekar, S.M.MUNEER ALI, jins, Vijay and udupendra

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Thomas Crapper.


Thursday, February 10, 2011

We don't need no Govt. control

—devadutta @ 23:59

Another current affairs question. Who is this Googler? Why he famous?

Apologies for the delay folks. Gremlins staged a coup and captured the quizmaster. Rescue teams have been deployed.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, KK, Kaustubh, Anjul, Sumanth Patlolla, jowens, dineshk, Manish Achuth, vishal golcha, Appu S, Riyaz Usman, Ananth, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, Crackedpot, vinayaknp, Sandesh, Logik, teju, yaksha, Nanda, shrik, Bharath, varuns88, viper1619, Aravind, krudebox, raklodramA, lanu and rohanquizzer

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Many people say that the Egypt revolution picked up steam because of online campaigns run by Wael Ghonim. Mainly Facebook pages he started.


Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Its not Anakin

—devadutta @ 23:59

Recent Meme. Who is this kid?

Hint:

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, udupendra, jowens, ragwho, rohit, Rogi, krudebox, Siddarth Pai, Sandesh, Riyaz Usman, Anirudh, dineshk, KK, Manish Achuth, Aditya Date, Bharath, nishansolo, viper1619, Sumanth Patlolla, vishal golcha, Appu S, Dibyo, nikhil, Crackedpot, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, SV, Logik, tungsten, teju and Anonymous

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The Kid from the VW commercial