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One enemy has defeated more heroes than any other monster or villain you can think. Time (and by extension space). Until today, that is. When I first got into gaming the hardest problem I faced was finding people to play with. At the time, D&D hadn’t quite blossomed into this huge.

The new quite lovely Isle of Cats boardgame

The FOAF standard, or Friend of a Friend standard, is a now largely defunct/ignored/superseded1 web standard dating from the early 2000s that hints at what social networking might have looked like had Facebook not conquered the world.

Back in 1993, a series of ads narrated by a post-Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck and directed by a pre-Fight Club David Fincher offered some eerily prescient visions of the future of tech. My favorite of the bunch begins with a boy reading a book on a large CRT monitor.

Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant can now play two popular board games, Ticket to Ride and Ticket to Ride Europe. These aren’t simply digital ports of the modern classics; you’ll actually need physical copies of the games in order to play.

Neal Agarwal has been coding since he was ten years old and graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in computer science. He’s interested in combining creativity and technology, as you can see in all of his projects.

In this blog post I will walk through a Hello World program in assembly (RISC style Nios II architecture).

Think about the last time you used cash. How much did you spend? What did you buy, and from whom? Was it a one-time thing, or was it something you buy regularly? Was it legal?