Boiledbeans

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July 2012

Monday, July 23, 2012

Gold

—devadutta @ 11:10

Guest question from %gqh% raklodramA. Spirit of the season and all that

Identify and connect.

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth and KK

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Anish Mistry and David Fox of the warwick university synthesized the olympicene molecule as tribute to the Olympic symbol


Chips with that?

—devadutta @ 10:41

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

Identify

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth and KK

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burritob0t, Burrito making bot.


Saturday, July 21, 2012

Click here

—devadutta @ 00:03

%gqh% Manin Maga has sent in this guest question.

Connect to a single term

manin maga and Jean Valjean have revived their quiz blog! Do give them a swing.

Jayaprakash B R, Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bharath and KK


Friday, July 20, 2012

Let's see who gets arrested this time.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Current affairs question. A few of what?

Cracked by: Rogi, Sujoy, Manish Achuth and Bharath

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This years DEF CON’s badges


Thursday, July 19, 2012

Their 'secrets' are safe here

—srikanth @ 23:59

Which controversial website is housed in this bomb-proof underground nuclear-shelter-turned-datacenter?

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, vinayaknp, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Jayaprakash B R, Vishnu Prashanth, Bharath, Anjul, Logik, KK, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, Abhishek Bagchi, Ananth and Manish Achuth

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Wikileaks - currently housed in this place called Pionen - White Mountain.


Thursday, July 19, 2012

Twitter posts are down

—srikanth @ 20:20

It looks like our site’s automatic posts to Twitter are broken :(

We’re looking into it and we’ll try to get it back up ASAP.


Wednesday, July 18, 2012

As we may think

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify the man and the machine

Cracked by: Anjul, Dibyo, Sumanth Patlolla, KK, Bipin Banavalikar, Rogi, Supritha Maiya, Vishnu Prashanth, vishwanath, Ananth and Manish Achuth

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Ivan Sutherland’s SKETCHPAD


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

emo-max

—srikanth @ 23:59

Identify this old popular website:

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Rogi, Bipin Banavalikar, Jayaprakash B R, Sumanth Patlolla, mankuTimma, Ananth, Supritha Maiya, Harsha, Bharath, Dibyo and KK

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Deadjournal, the ‘dark’ cousin of the once famous livejournal platform.


Monday, July 16, 2012

Aux armes et cætera

—srikanth @ 23:59

What takes its name from things like these:

Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, Harsha, Mayukh Bose, Bharath, Dibyo, KK and Bipin Banavalikar

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Movable Type, the blogging platform, from the ‘movable type’ printing technology.


Sunday, July 15, 2012

"there's a lot of caching"

—srikanth @ 23:59

ID (1). (2) is a clue.

Cracked by: Bipin Banavalikar, Dibyo, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, Supritha Maiya, Bharath, Manish Achuth, KK, mankuTimma, Ananth and Harsha

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NASA Nebula, their container-contained cloud computing platform