Just three of many more variants, what’s the story behind these?

Cracked by: Shreyas , Dibyo , varuns88 , sidsen , udupendra , jayanth and shashank.

Shreyas, Dibyo, varuns88, sidsen, udupendra, jayanth and shashank

IBM got into decent trouble for painting these signs on the pavements of a big US city as a part of a marketing campaign.
What is blurred out in the image?

Here is another look at the same ad, but on a less harmful billboard.

Cracked by: madhur , yaksha , nofreebrains , teju , Shreyas , nishansolo , Rohan , jayanth , shenoyvarun86 , Dibyo , Shyam , Vinod P.V , Ganesh Prasad , Nikhil , Tathagata Chatterjee , shivathilak , shivathilak , Sandhip , bobo , uma , varuns88 , sidsen , prasanth , Srikanth , BiGFooT , udupendra , Poornima , Ginkgo100 , Manish and duriel.

madhur, yaksha, nofreebrains, teju, Shreyas, nishansolo, Rohan, jayanth, shenoyvarun86, Dibyo, Shyam, Vinod P.V, Ganesh Prasad, Nikhil, Tathagata Chatterjee, shivathilak, shivathilak, Sandhip, bobo, uma, varuns88, sidsen, prasanth, Srikanth, BiGFooT, udupendra, Poornima, Ginkgo100, Manish and duriel

This landlord intruded on a meeting in a company’s office, and ended up giving his name to something:

What?

Cracked by: varuns88 , jayanth , rajeshvj , Dibyo , bobo , teju , udupendra, prasanth and shashank.

varuns88, jayanth, rajeshvj, Dibyo, bobo, teju, udupendra, prasanth and shashank

Easy one for the weekend..

Identify the logo in 1. 2 is a hint.

1. 2.

Cracked by: teju , duriel , bobo , varuns88 , jayanth , udupendra , Vinay , piezocake , Archana , prasanth , Poornima , BiGFooT , Prasad , rajeshvj , akhi , yaksha and shashank. and dibyo

teju, duriel, bobo, varuns88, Dibyo, jayanth, udupendra, Vinay, piezocake, Archana, prasanth, Poornima, BiGFooT, Prasad, rajeshvj, akhi, yaksha and shashank

This question courtesy Prasad, the Pocket-Tanks commander. Send in your guest questions to boiledbeans@gmail.com to earn the +5 aura-of-awesomeness power up.

Connect:

1. 
2. 
3. int array[10000]; for(int i=0; i <= 10000; i++) { println(array[i]); }

duriel got the perfect answer. Semi-cracked by: jayanth , bobo , nishansolo and shashank.

jayanth, bobo, nishansolo, duriel and shashank

Rampant speculation, this. Consider it more along the “arbit” vector, as opposed to the “knowledge dissemination” vector.

(1) , although better known for something else, used to teach (2)’s techniques to people. (1) allegedly used (3) in something famous he created. Who is (1), what did he create, and what’s the connect to (2) and (3)?

Cracked by: sidsen , udupendra , Shreyas , Dibyo , Mitesh , jayanth , yaksha and shashank.

sidsen, udupendra, Shreyas, Dibyo, Mitesh, jayanth, yaksha and shashank

Connect these seemingly arbitrary bunch of places.

Mea Culpa. I had uploaded a wrong map. Please refresh page with Ctrl+F5 (FF) or Shift+F5 (IE)

Close up of the left

Hint: The list is not exhaustive. There are some, including the most popular version of the “connect” which cannot be placed on a map.

Cracked by Dibyo and pratap. Really hard to Google for the answer. Amazing work guys!

Dibyo and pratap

Connect:

(Pre-emptive apologies for the rubbish MSPaint work on the image above… Thats about the best my setup for today can handle :-/ )

Cracked by: udupendra , teju , madhur , Shreyas , nishansolo , Dibyo , akhi , A Nony Mouse , prasanth , shashank , Srikanth (not me), duriel , yaksha , sri (not me either) and jayanth.

Sandhip, Poornima: Good guesses (and things I never knew!), but I was looking for something more specific.

udupendra, teju, madhur, Shreyas, shenoyvarun86, nishansolo, Dibyo, akhi, A Nony Mouse, prasanth, shashank, Srikanth, duriel, yaksha, sri and jayanth

Which “oh-so-trendy” company is located where the green arrow is pointing?

Hint: The name of the place(that street address, to be specific) is inspired by code like that found in the subject line.

Cracked by: Shreyas , udupendra , Poornima , Manish Jain , madhur , teju , jayanth , pratap , rajeshvj , shyam , Prasad , A Nony Mouse , shivathilak , Dibyo , Srikanth , Aviroop , Sandhip , Nikhil , duriel , shashank , nishansolo and suhasd.

Shreyas, udupendra, Poornima, Manish Jain, madhur, teju, jayanth, pratap, rajeshvj, shyam, Prasad, A Nony Mouse, shivathilak, Dibyo, Srikanth, Aviroop, Sandhip, Nikhil, duriel, shashank, nishansolo and suhasd

Coincidentally, yesterday’s Annus Mirabilis question brought up another landmark: we’re now up to 200 questions posted here!

So, how’s it been? Any feedback/comments? Please do chip in and let us know…