Nerdwatch: containership and volcano
Live updates, silly song parodies, etymology and more. Follow along with Mefites the slow excitement of the Giant container ship stuck in the Suez Canal and the Icelandic volcano
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There have always been coffee nerds
Vintage Lion Coffee Ad by thegraphicaddict (cc by-sa)
In an AskMe trying to track down a coffee press from a screen shot MsMolly one of our local librarians, tracks down an amusing letter to the editor from an 1814 coffee nerd.
Sand orgy!
sex on the beach by emme-dk (cc by)
What do you call it when you have more than one Sex on the Beach?
Nerdfight;
Truly, the glue that's holding civilization together, however tenuously by Saucy Salad (cc by)
The Twitter universe spent the weekend in a tizzy over the use of semicolons in javascript. If you hadn't heard or none of it makes much sense, this post by Deathalicious is a good backgrounder on the issues at play.
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