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We all know it: e-mails with incorrect encoding, in which the German special characters are once again displayed incorrectly. We can only be glad t...

Many theories seem flawless on paper. Only when they have to be applied in the real world do unforeseen problems or surprising realisations arise. ...

Only one egg is left on the breakfast table. You look to your left ... You look to your right. Your family is fixating their greedy eyes on the per...

Question: Is it fair to compare new fantasy novels with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings? Because it's simply amazing what the father of modern fantasy ...

During the pandemic, we learned more about viruses than we ever wanted to know! The little beasts are – just like bacteria, by the way – quite the ...

Imagine that you’ve just created a model that allows different technical systems to communicate with each other and that features different layers ...

Every true dinosaur fan has certainly dreamed more than once of experiencing the prehistoric giants alive. Unfortunately, time travel is still not ...

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Those of you who have watched The Lord of the Rings (which is surely everybody, right?) will remember the epic scene in which Gandalf confronts the...

Roleplaying Games, RPGs for short, can take many shapes or forms, from computer or console games to pen & paper games. The most important thing is ...

To understand recursion, you first have to understand recursion.

Home is still the best place to be. Who likes to sit at other people's computers where nothing is set up the way it should be ;)

Regardless of which generation of the iconic little monsters you grew up with, Pikachu really is a household name. With the Pokémon Pikachu bowl we...

Imagine the following situation: You’re on the steering lever of a train trolley that is rapidly racing down a set of train tracks. As you are appr...

What's the most popular answer to calls at the IT support hotline? Of course the sentence: "Have you tried turning it off and on again?&q...

The kitchen can be a dangerous place - you handle acid, sharp blades and high heat and trigger chemical reactions. There should be a lot more warni...

This nerdy Cooling Please Wait Trivet ensures that all sensitive surfaces in your household are spared from hot pots, casseroles and pans. There's ...

Everyone has their own methods of coping with a panic attack: Some just scream at their colleagues and others throw their computer out of the windo...

Sailing the oceans with a merry band sounds like a great idea at first. But if these actually quite nice guys are pirates, it can cause you a few p...

Sometimes it's the smallest, most inconspicuous things that have a big impact on our lives – like those little bags for keeping electronics, leathe...

If you ask die-hard science-fiction fans who the most iconic bad guys are, then some would be sure to name the stormtroopers. These imperial goons ...

With a few notable exceptions, the universes of most video games, movies, books and other media rarely cross into each other’s domains. Which is a ...

The (almost exclusively jokingly used) eighth layer of the OSI model for network protocols is a nice way of saying that the problem lies with the p...

As we learned in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, students at Hogwarts have access to not only boring old showers but also luxurious baths with...

Back in the old days, pluto was still a planet. Remember? What great times they were! But a few years ago, Pluto lost his status as a "real&qu...

Don't you get annoyed by the stupid comments from your friends when you tell them that you've been playing World of Warcraft all week? Then you can...

It is no coincidence that this tape dispenser is shaped like a cassette. Because in English, the word "tape" means both adhesive tape and audio tap...

Unfortunately, writing letters has gone a little out of fashion. But with this The Lord of the Rings wax seal set, fans of the works of J.R.R. Tolk...

There are only a few people who have an innate talent for solving a Rubik's Cube. If you're not one of them, the very thought of it will probably c...

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A weapon can decide a battle. But a weapon is not always a sword, a bow or even a pistol. In pen and paper role-playing games, for instance, the im...

There are a few things you can't predict: Who dies next on Game of Thrones, the Spanish Inquisition or the element of surprise Ah! This little elem...

That's what a Magic Cube looks like in the heat of desperate solution attempts ;)

When programmers have worked too long on a project, or when you ask them how the code they worked on actually functions, their favorite answer will...

On expeditions into the vastness of space, all the glory ultimately goes to the captain, although without the engineers there wouldn’t even be a sh...