This weekend, the Ars Cardboard crew is drowning in a sea of tabletop games at the annual Gen Con gaming convention in Indianapolis.

At 6am on May 7, 2004, Axel Gembe awoke in the small German town of Schönau im Schwarzwald to find his bed surrounded by police officers bearing automatic weapons. One officer barked: "Get out of bed. Do not touch the keyboard." Gembe knew why they were there. But, bleary-eyed, he asked anyway.

Nowadays, recommender systems are used to personalize your experience on the web, telling you what to buy, where to eat or even who you should be friends with. People’s tastes vary, but generally follow patterns.

«Tu fammi un solo esempio di una che conosciamo alla quale è andata bene» «Vuoi un esempio? Vuoi che faccia un nome? Vuoi che ti dica un nome, insomma, uno qualunque?» «Sì, uno. Me ne basta uno» «Dio, che ossessione sono i nomi… quella granculo di Cerentola!»

An elaborate time travel prank on a New York City subway car with four sets of identical twins!(View on YouTube) | Subscribe to us on YouTube Created and Directed by Charlie Todd / Produced by Deverge / Music by Tyler Walker For our latest mission, we staged an elaborate time travel prank on a New

Several years ago I wrote a blog post on salary negotiation for engineers. This probably created more value than anything else I’ve ever written — I have a folder in Gmail with thank-you messages from people, and my running total is something north of $2.

Something IBM made with some very flat, very clean, very cold copper and a few hundred carbon monoxide molecules. Physicist: Actual pictures of atoms aren’t actually pictures at all.

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Il rumore bianco dei frigoriferi che si amplifica, la luce dei neon che si allarga sui corridoi tra le merci che paiono assopite sugli scaffali in attesa di clienti, una musichetta in sordina trasmessa da una filodiffusione che sembra una radio lasciata accesa sovrastata dal clangore ottuso dei t

Nel mio caso sono stati i calabroni. In un pomeriggio d’estate quando avevo dodici anni, mentre stavo correndo in un campo incolto vicino a casa di un amico, diedi un calcio a un nido di calabroni grande quanto un pallone.

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