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—devadutta @ January 24, 2012

What is this?

Everything that is blacked out is the same term or its acronym (except the one to your top right).

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Destined to offend nearly 2/3rds of the net, perhaps?

—srikanth @ January 23, 2012

Whose logo is (1), and how does it connect to (2)?

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Quoting Thejas VR


First there was sol.

—srikanth @ January 22, 2012

Identify.

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Lua


...Aaand we're back

—srikanth @ January 21, 2012

OK folks, multiple questions per day from now on till we try and catch up again.

Question - Who imitating who doing what?

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Quoting Rahulk


Ha-choo!

—srikanth @ January 19, 2012

Guest question from Manish Achuth %gqh%

  1. Identify the man.
  2. He was an assistant to someone. Who?
  3. And what first does this “Movie” have?


In the wake of all the SOPA/PIPA (yeno papa) talk going around, this does seem fairly relevant :)

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Ok, I’ll level with you - we’re desperately in need of guest questions :| Send in anything you’ve got! [email protected]

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It's the final countdown (ta da daa daaa)

—srikanth @ January 18, 2012

What are these? Or rather, more importantly, how did we get these?

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/bd3aeaf14e8485828337dfe75c498b69.mid] (link)

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/13a1be29dce845c3e45a72da10930558.mid] (link)

[audio:http://www.boiledbeans.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/26e57cfc37fcc87ecf07009b79d7e50b.mid] (link)

Here’s a clue:

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I CAN HAZ BS?

—srikanth @ January 17, 2012

Veery borderline geeky. What special achievement connects:

  1. Colby Nolan
  2. George/Chris Jackson
  3. Henrietta/Ben Goldacre
  4. Kitty O’Malley
  5. Sassafrass Herbert
  6. Sonny/John Licciardello

This is, sadly, not an exhaustive list at all. There are many more.

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I can see right through you.

—srikanth @ January 16, 2012

(1) was the first and, believe it or not, the paper it was published in was rejected! The technique did take hold though and grew to become very popular. (2) was the first of a body part.

What technique?

The technique goes by multiple names - we’ll be liberal with the points.

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Up, Down, Up , Down, Up, Down - 3rd times the charm?

—srikanth @ January 15, 2012

A relatively recent rumour about the 4 things below was “created” by a very popular book. What’s the rumour?

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Abbreviate abbreviate abbreviate!

—srikanth @ January 14, 2012

(1) is to (2) as (3) is to what?

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Kernighan and Plauger (3) created the book “Elements of Programming style” - with a theme similar to the famous book “The Elements of Style” by Strunk and White.