Boiledbeans

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January 2012

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Mmmm pie...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Sitter sitter everywhere… Who holding up what?

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Urthstripe, rickde, jowens, Anjul, badideabear, Bharath, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Rajesh, shrik, KK, tsmyelin, Manish Achuth, debjani, Gurupad, siddhanthrao, Ananth and Kaustubh Mhatre

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Carl Sagan holding up the actual Pioneer plaque


First superheroes, now this.

—srikanth @ 23:16

What is this representing? My apologies in advance for the tacky collage :P

Question will auto-mod on the 14th.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Rajesh, rickde, KK, Gurupad, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, shrik, soda buddi, Salil, Jayaprakash B R, jowens, Dibyo, Logik, Anjul, badideabear and Rogi

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Nvidia GPU codenames - they’ve recennly started naming them after famous scientists.


Monday, January 9, 2012

No, really.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What’s going on here?

(Question will be modded on the 14th)

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Bharath, Sumanth Patlolla, Prasad, rickde, KK, Gurupad, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, shrik, soda buddi, Vishwas B Sharma, Jayaprakash B R, jowens, Dibyo, badideabear, Kaustubh Mhatre, Rogi, Ananth, debjani and Shwetha Maiya

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A toaster running NetBSD . Some people took the “NetBSD runs on ANYTHING” philosophy to a fairly extreme end and created this toaster running the OS.


Sunday, January 8, 2012

The one that started it all

—srikanth @ 23:59

Something to capture the ‘mood of the moment’ in the world of shiny gadgets. Where’s this photo from?

Question will be modded on the 14th.

Cracked by Rajesh, Rogi, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, Anjul, Prasad, rickde, KK, Gurupad, Manish Achuth, shrik, soda buddi, Jayaprakash B R, Vishwas B Sharma, jowens, badideabear, Kaustubh Mhatre, Ananth, rohanquizzer, Shwetha Maiya and siddhanthrao


Saturday, January 7, 2012

Play guitar hero on this?

—srikanth @ 23:59

You probably know what’s on the left. What’s on the right?

Cracked by Raghuvansh, Rajesh, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Bharath, KK, rickde, Gurupad, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, shrik, soda buddi, jowens, Vishwas B Sharma, Dibyo, badideabear, Ananth and debjani.

We’ve been a bit liberal with this one.


Friday, January 6, 2012

3 Sides

—devadutta @ 23:59

What is this?

Cracked by shrik, debjani, Ananth, Manish Achuth, Rogi, jowens, Bharath, KK, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Vishwas B Sharma, Rajesh, Anjul, rohanquizzer, Dibyo, badideabear, Shwetha Maiya, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, soda buddi and Saill


Thursday, January 5, 2012

Read this

—devadutta @ 23:59

These guys are the founders of a very popular web company. The site has an interesting story. For the longest time, it was called a clone or another popular website, but of late, they have surged ahead of the site they supposedly “cloned”. Which company are these three the founders of?

My horrible paint job on the image hides their mascot.

Cracked by badideabear, Manish Achuth, rohanquizzer, Jayaprakash B R, Rogi, byslexia, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, shrik, Saill, Bharath, Nandha K Samy, Ananth, Thejas V R, debjani, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, Prasad, soda buddi, Logik and Anjul


Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Where's this Waldo from?

—devadutta @ 23:59

1 is one of the first occurance of this type of art. 2 is also an early example. Even now, stuff like 3 can be routinely seen. Tell us where you can see this type of art and also what it is known as.

Cracked by Rajesh, rickde, raklodramA, shrik, Manish Achuth, Nandha K Samy, KK, Vishwas B Sharma, jowens, Sumanth Patlolla, rohanquizzer, Rogi, arjun narayanan, byslexia, Bharath, Anjul, badideabear, Kaustubh Mhatre, Ananth, Thejas V R, debjani, Dibyo, Shwetha Maiya, Gurupad, Raghuvansh, Shivathilak, Prasad and soda buddi


Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Blame Nedry for letting them out.

—srikanth @ 21:28

Structures of this sort were given a very interesting name. What?

(Question will auto-mod on the 6th)

Cracked by: badideabear, shrik, jowens and Bharath

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Replicating tiles, AKA “rep-tiles”


Monday, January 2, 2012

Just add some funky music.

—srikanth @ 23:59

What is this, and what did it inspire?

(Question will be modded on the 6th)

Cracked by Rajesh, raklodramA, Urthstripe, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Rahulk, Satya Saha, Vishwas B Sharma, Shivathilak, rickde, Rogi, rohanquizzer, shrik, Shwetha Maiya, jowens, KK, Thejas V R, asdf, Ananth, Bharath and Nandha K Samy