Boiledbeans

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Scan me

—devadutta @ 23:59

What it is?

Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth, Dibyo, Urthstripe, username, Manish Achuth, Goyal, anurag, Sumanth Patlolla, Siddarth Pai, arpit mehta, shrik, Raghuvansh, thiru d gr8, Thejas V R, Bharath, bullshitesque, sandeep bhat, grey_matters, raklodramA, jins, Swarun and Anjul

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Quoting Swarun “Royal Dutch Mint coin with QR code to commemorate 100 years of the mint.”


Disobedience?

—devadutta @ 23:59

1 is supposedly the earliest known instance of this type of “protest”. 2 is the most popular one in recent times. What are we talking about?

For bonus fake cookie points, identify 1 and 2.

Cracked by: Jayaprakash B R, Ananth, shrik, Rogi, Dibyo, grey_matters, Nagendra U M, Goyal, anurag, Bharath, Raghuvansh, Sumanth Patlolla, badideabear, Thejas V R, raklodramA, Urthstripe, sandeep bhat, Siddarth Pai, Mo, Manish Achuth, username, Martin and thiru d gr8

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Hacktivism - Hacking some page as a protest


Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Daily grind...

—srikanth @ 23:59

Not-so-obscure meme question time :)

Identify the man, the series, and the company :)

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Ananth, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, Sai Subramanian, Bharath, anurag, jins, username, Thejas V R, Goyal, badideabear, Martin, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, s m muneer ali, Dirty-i, thiru d gr8, Rogi, Anjul, dineshk and Shwetha Maiya

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Tom Dickson, famous protagonist of famous ad series ‘Will It Blend’ by now-famous blender company BlendTec. Incidentally he’s blending the iPhone 4 in this ad.


Monday, June 13, 2011

Hero

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple question. Whose painting is this?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Thejas V R, Ananth, shrik, Sumanth Patlolla, username, Manish Achuth, Dibyo, Raghuvansh, KK, Sai Subramanian, grey_matters, Bharath, v.chandrashekar, anurag, badideabear, Siddarth Pai, raklodramA, rohanquizzer, s m muneer ali, Dirty-i, Rogi, Anjul, dineshk, Goyal, Nanda, Sridhar C, Shwetha Maiya, jins and arpit mehta

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Nicolaus Copernicus


Sunday, June 12, 2011

I TXT YOU

—devadutta @ 23:59

Yay! Obscure meme question time.

Which meme traces its roots back to this comic strip?

Hint: One of the faces above goes into this body

Cracked by: udupendra, shrik, Rogi, Urthstripe, Ananth, Raghuvansh, badideabear, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Anjul, Manish Achuth, Jayaprakash B R, Bharath, Martin, raklodramA, Thejas V R, username, dineshk, Sumanth Patlolla, jins, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters and Goyal

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Y U NO KNOW THE ANSWER?


Saturday, June 11, 2011

OMG

—srikanth @ 23:59

Sorry for the continued delays folks. Please rest assured we will try to get back to normal schedules as soon as possible.

(1) was a famous observatory. The ‘pattern’ of detection was as in (2), which led to the name.

What is (1) called?

Cracked by: shrik, udupendra, Rogi, Ananth, Raghuvansh, Shwetha Maiya, Dibyo, Bharath, raklodramA, username, Thejas V R, Sumanth Patlolla, dineshk, Manish Achuth, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters, Dirty-i and Goyal

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The Fly’s Eye detector, at Utah. Notable for many things, but most probably for the OMG particle.


Friday, June 10, 2011

Mother Fruit!

—devadutta @ 23:59

Simple question. Fresh off the press. Future campus of which company ?

Cracked by: Urthstripe, Logik, shrey, shrik, Rogi, Murthy, Raghuvansh, badideabear, Nagendra U M, anurag, Shwetha Maiya, raklodramA, Bharath, krudebox, Manish Achuth, rajathvsm, Sumanth Patlolla, Thejas V R, Anjul, KK, Jayaprakash B R, dirty-i, jins, Sai Subramanian, Goyal, Martin, dineshk, Rahulk, Siddarth Pai, grey_matters, Dibyo, sandeep bhat, sidsen, Aparna, Ananth, SV, username, supreeth, thiru d gr8, udupendra and shenoyvarun86

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Apple’s new Spaceship campus in Cupertino


Thursday, June 9, 2011

Newage Miners

—devadutta @ 23:59

Identify this “currency” and tell us what is special about it. Its been in news recently. A Lot.

Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, Akshay, Goyal, badideabear, raklodramA, shrey, KK, Ananth, Bharath, Urthstripe, Logik, Rogi, dineshk, Shwetha Maiya, Raghuvansh, Manish Achuth, jins, Sai Subramanian, rohanquizzer, D’Anconia, Dibyo, anurag, Siddarth Pai, Thejas V R, shrik, Nagendra U M, krudebox, Jayaprakash B R, dirty-i, Rahulk, sidsen, SV, Anjul, username, udupendra and shenoyvarun86

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Bitcoin - P2P currency


Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Somewhere in CA

—devadutta @ 22:34

(In)Famous “experiment”. Identify.

Step 1:

Step 2:

For fake bonus points, tell us what was Step 3?

Cracked by: Thejas V R, shrik, Rogi, Siddarth Pai, Goyal, raklodramA, udupendra, Bharath, krudebox, Ananth, dhruv, Urthstripe, dineshk, badideabear, Manish Achuth, Shwetha Maiya, Raghuvansh and Dibyo

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Microsoft’s (in)famous Mojave experiment.


Tuesday, June 7, 2011

On you marks.. Get Set..

—devadutta @ 23:59

Connect to a programming language. (Please to consider only the dude of dudes to the left in 1)

Cracked by: Ananth, shrey, Logik, Dibyo, Ankur, Manish Achuth, Goyal, jins, badideabear, Jayaprakash B R, Raghuvansh, Thejas V R, v.chandrashekar, Rahulk, Sai Subramanian, anurag, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, shrik, Siddarth Pai, Bharath, raklodramA, udupendra, dineshk, krudebox, Swarun and Shwetha Maiya

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