Boiledbeans

Drama! Intrigue!! Geekiness!!!

March 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

Too muck ink?

—devadutta @ 13:27

Typography geek question. What are the highlighted regions known as?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, Dibyo and Manish Achuth

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Ink Traps. An ink trap is a feature of certain typefaces, where the corners or details are removed from the letterforms. When the type is printed, ink naturally spreads into the removed area. Without ink traps, the excess ink would blob and ruin the crisp edge


Tuesday, March 18, 2014

itle{Congratulations}

—devadutta @ 12:57

Identify

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, buk, Bipin Banavalikar, Supritha Maiya, AmK, KK and Jayaprakash B R

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Leslie Lamport, 2014 Turing Award Winner


Monday, March 10, 2014

Where is my towel?

—devadutta @ 20:09

What is this?

Cracked by: KK, Shwetha Maiya, Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, VP, Rogi, AmK, Siddharth C S, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi and Supritha Maiya

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HHG2G, 30th Anniversary Edition.


Saturday, March 8, 2014

Family Time

—devadutta @ 13:40

What is this? Where can you find this?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, Sumanth Patlolla, [email protected], Bipin Banavalikar, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Shwetha Maiya, AmK, Rogi, KK and Supritha Maiya

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In 1972, as part of the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, astronaut Charles Duke embarked on a mission to the explore the moon’s surface in a lunar roving vehicle. While there, he shot a picture of a photo of himself, his wife, and his two sons which was enclosed in plastic on the moon’s surface, where it remains to this day.


Tuesday, March 4, 2014

About Time

—devadutta @ 00:55

Who made these watches?

Cracked by: Manish Achuth, KK, Sumanth Patlolla, s m muneer ali, Rogi, AmK, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, Shwetha Maiya and Supritha Maiya

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Intel. Well, Microma, but Intel.


Saturday, March 1, 2014

Naturally awesome

—devadutta @ 12:23

Guest question from %gqh% Manish Achuth.

What is happening here?

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Supritha Maiya, s m muneer ali, Abhiram Bharadwaj Diddigi, bastet, Rogi, AmK and KK

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This is an animation of DNA replication by DNA polymerase.