Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

2011

Friday, April 1, 2011

How do you like the new design?

—devadutta @ 01:49

At Boiledbeans, we believe that “new age” web-designs have insulted their rich heritage by ignoring the path they have taken to reach the jing-bang era of Web 2.0 or 3.0 whatever. The web is nothing without animated gifs, bright backgrounds and Comic Sans. So, we have today decided to go back to our web-design roots by launching this new design.

Hit Ctrl + F5. Multiple times.

You like it or not, we are keeping it!

Damn these “new-age” browsers, they stopped supporting the blink tag! Traitors!

Thanks

Edit: Happy fools day, folks.


All you have to do is keep talking

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify and connect

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Dibyo, s m muneer ali, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, jowens, Ananth, Siddarth Pai, KK, Nakul, Thejas V R, shrik, Logik, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya and krudebox

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Nim Chimpsky, named as a pun on Noam Chomsky, was a chimp raised in a laboratory environment. Scientists were attempting to disprove Chomsky’s theory that humans were “wired” for language by trying to teach Nim how to speak.


Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Mirror mirror on the wall...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Plaintext question (essentially an excuse for the wordplay).

The “traditional” effect A makes it seem that nearby stars are moving in relation to faraway stars, when seen from the earth. This is essentailly caused by the motion of the earth around the sun.

The “reverse” of the traditional effect is actually an artifact of gravitational lensing. The outcome is the exact converse of A, and hence named B.

**B?
**

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Rogi, jowens, shrik and dineshk

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Xarallap, the exact converse effect of stellar Parallax.


Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Mirror Mirror on the.. desk?

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Internet obscuridade time!

Who invented this keyboard layout? (1 becomes 2 when you hit caps lock)

Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, shrik, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, Ananth, Dibyo, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, KK and dineshk

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Randall Munroe of xkcd!


Monday, March 28, 2011

Pop!

—devadutta @ 23:59

One of the world’s most talked about companies. For all the wrong reasons. Which company?

Cracked by: jowens, Ananth, Rogi, dineshk, shrik, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, KK, Dibyo, raklodramA, krudebox, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, abinash sharma, krikkrak, Siddarth Pai, Jins, Thejas V R, Manish Achuth and s m muneer ali

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webvan.com, the biggest flop of the .com bubble!


Sunday, March 27, 2011

Oink...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Logo for an ‘app’ that would’ve probably made facebook a lot more popular, and given lawyers something else to chew on for a while. Identify.

Cracked by: udupendra, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, Dibyo, jowens, KK, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, Siddarth Pai, abinash sharma, Thejas V R, s m muneer ali, raklodramA, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya and krudebox

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Wirehog - a peer-to-peer filesharing system created by Zuckerberg, Sean parker and David Kirkpatrick.


Sunday, March 27, 2011

Problems posting comments?

—devadutta @ 22:37

We are noticing some back-end issues and commenting features are not functioning properly.
We are working to get it fixed.

We will keep questions open longer.

Thanks for your patience.

P.S: Thanks to Shwetha for letting us know about this!


Saturday, March 26, 2011

Twist twist...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Guest question from %gqh% Satya Saha.

What principle is depicted here?

Cracked by: raklodramA, rohanquizzer, Raghuvansh, shrik, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, S M MUNEER ALI, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, KK, jowens, udupendra, Dibyo, Manish Achuth, abinash sharma, Thejas V R, Shwetha Maiya and krudebox

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Quoting wikipedia - “Reproduction of a page of Ibn Sahl’s manuscript showing his discovery of the law of refraction, now known as Snell’s law.”


Friday, March 25, 2011

Interfere...

—srikanth @ 23:59

This fabric lends its name to a visual artifact in digital video/imaging. Identify.

PS: apologies for superlate post. Gremlins got my internet connection this time.

Cracked by: Rogi, jowens, Raghuvansh, Anjul, shrik, Logik, dineshk and udupendra

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The so-called “Moire pattern” is named after the Moire fabric. Interference between closely-spaced sets of parallel lines causes the strange patterns that you see very frequently when people wear stripes on TV :-)


Friday, March 25, 2011

Happy Birthday, Srikanth!

—devadutta @ 00:30

Yes, Srikanth successfully completed another trip around the sun. Lets all join hands and congratulate him on this joyous occasion!

Blast! No Iframe support! What are you in? 1960?