Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

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.


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


Saturday, July 14, 2012

Still alive.

—srikanth @ 23:59

Arbit geek-culture question. What’s this about?

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

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NASA sent an engraved Wheatley from Portal 2 into space.


Friday, July 13, 2012

Play for free

—devadutta @ 20:37

What it is?

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


Thursday, July 12, 2012

Dead?

—devadutta @ 20:32

I’d buy one of these. Just in case 28 days from now something happens..

What is this?

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

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Hyundai Zombie Survival Vehicle


Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Not angry anymore

—devadutta @ 16:11

%gqh% Bipin Banavalikar sent the same question I wanted to ask today!

Identify.

Cracked by: KK, Bharath, Manish Achuth, mankuTimma, raklodramA, Don42, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, bhargava, Bipin Banavalikar, Ananth, Supritha Maiya, rohanquizzer, Lovish Pandey, Jayaprakash B R, Varun Singh and Logik

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Amazing Alex, Rovio’s new game