Boiledbeans

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April 2011

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Addictive

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify and connect.

Eye candy. Yay!

Cracked by: udupendra, raklodramA, shrik, rohanquizzer, shrey, Urthstripe, krudebox, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, dineshk, Rogi, jowens, yniu, badideabear, duriel, Manish Achuth, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, lanu, Dibyo, Aravind, Shwetha Maiya, Thejas V R, Pharmd14 and Pharme684

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Alesia Glidewell is the body and voice model for Chell in Portal – Quoting Thejas V R


Friday, April 29, 2011

Maybe MS can get a lifetime achievement award?

—srikanth @ 23:59

OK the snide remark in the title was wholly unnecessary.

Identify the award:

Cracked by: jowens, Urthstripe, Logik, Rogi, Manish Achuth, dineshk, udupendra, jins, shrik, badideabear and Raghuvansh

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The ‘pwnie’ awards, handed out every year for people who’ve made good/bad achievements in security research.


Thursday, April 28, 2011

We are everywhere.

—devadutta @ 23:59

Who made these watches and coffee makers?

well, yes, name the “biggest” company involved. Bonus cookie points if you name the common “technology” these two used.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, vishwanath, shrik, Smitha R Maiya, Thejas V R, dineshk, jowens, udupendra, rohanquizzer, Logik and Shwetha Maiya

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Well, yes, Microsoft made watches and coffee makers (Software for it). It was called SPOT: Smart Personal Objects Technology. Good old glory days of tech randomness :D


Wednesday, April 27, 2011

This is how we backup Boiledbeans.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify device

Cracked by: anurag, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, jowens, sandeep bhat, shrik, dineshk and udupendra

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Prank specification produced for the Signetics 25021 “Write-only memory”.


Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Live long and mobile

—devadutta @ 23:59

Fancy device used by 1, brought to life on Android and iPhone (and a few standalone devices, if you are feeling pedantic today). What?

Cracked by: Rogi, shrik, Akarsha Ramesh Kamala, jowens, Raghuvansh, dineshk, Manish Achuth, jins, Dibyo, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, Shwetha Maiya, Sumanth Patlolla, krudebox, Riyaz Usman and Ananth

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Tricoder


Monday, April 25, 2011

I accidentally the.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s the story?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, xeqtor, Siddarth Pai, mrsgollum, Rogi, Dibyo, Thejas V R, raklodramA, jins, Sumanth Patlolla, lanu, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya, shrik, Ananth, Mahima Kamath, dineshk, udupendra, jowens, Anubhav, krudebox and s m muneer ali

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Stewart brand created buttons (1) asking for a picture of the whole earth. NASA then released this pic (2) taken by the astronauts on one of the Apollo missions.


Sunday, April 24, 2011

Stop!

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is special about this traffic licght?

Cracked by: Anjul, dineshk, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Rogi, jowens, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, rohanquizzer, jayaprakashbr, krudebox, raklodramA, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Mahima Kamath, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, lanu, panrod, anurag, Riyaz Usman and udupendra

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Traffic lights for people selectively sensitive to color. Politically correct, I am.


Saturday, April 23, 2011

That last one is debatable.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Plaintext question for today. What is this list?

  1. The Ericsson Globe in Stockholm
  2. Stockholm City Museum in Stockholm
  3. Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm
  4. Cosmonova Riksmuseet in Stockholm
  5. Mörby Centrum in Danderyd
  6. Arlanda airport in Märsta
  7. Celsius square in Uppsala
  8. Furuviks Park in Gävle
  9. by the river Söderhamnsån in Söderhamn
  10. by the lake Dellen South, in Delsbo

Cracked by: shrik, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, Goyal, jowens, dineshk, Dibyo, madhur, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Shwetha Maiya, Aneeh, krudebox, Thejas V R, aditthya, Moju21, lanu, Archana, Siddarth Pai, rohanquizzer, Amarendra, Riyaz Usman, jins, vishwanath, Sanador, raklodramA, Rahulk, anurag and SV

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This explains it best - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System


Friday, April 22, 2011

Hows the location?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple one for the weekend. Identify.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, udupendra, Ananth, Riyaz Usman, jowens, shrik, Aravind, smhashmi123, Manish Achuth, Antariksh Bothale, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, raklodramA, s m muneer ali, dineshk, Mahima Kamath, Rahul Rajeev, Sanador, jayaprakashbr, Siddarth Pai, v.chandrashekar, Shwetha Maiya, krudebox, Thejas V R, lanu, Harshal Ruikar, jins and Rahulk

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Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico


Thursday, April 21, 2011

Almost h2g2. Almost.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Very famous webcomic parodying something. Who parodying what?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Ananth, Rogi, shrik, dineshk, jowens, Manish Achuth, jins, Dibyo, Mahi, Sumanth Patlolla, udupendra, madhur, Shwetha Maiya and Thejas V R

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Gaming-culture webcomic Penny Arcade recently took a dig at the new Ad-supported Amazon kindle. Full link here - http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/4/13/