Archive for March 21st, 2010

Team Placeholder wins 2010 Overnight Website Challenge

photo by Tony Webster

Congratulations to Team Placeholder (pictured here in the black) for their victory in The Nerdery’s 2010 Overnight Website Challenge. Team Placeholder built a site (from scratch, they currently have no site) for Dakota Wicohan, a group dedicated to preserving the Dakota language which only has nine remaining original speakers. Pretty awesome all around.

Thank you to everyone who participated — nonprofits and volunteers — you all did something pretty amazing within the last 24 hours. Nice work, we can’t wait to do it all over again next year.

After 4 a.m. things get quiet (and a little weird)

We’ve passed 4 a.m. here in the land of the webchallenge and things have certainly quieted down. We’ve slipped from the giddy giggly stage and into the contemplative energy conservation stage (laughing requires a lot of energy. energy you could be using to stay awake).

Some of our nerds are burrowing in for the long haul, and Matt has made a fort and banned everyone but his new BFF (the Yoda Backpack that’s part of the Empire Strikes Package).

Of course after you have traversed the barren, frigid landscape of Hoth you deserve some fort time. Right?

Some people got to have it, some people really need it

We capture some nerds taking a spin in the Cash Vault (and in Annette’s case we’ll just call it the Crash Vault):

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