Friday Links: Happy International Beer Day

• Today is International Beer Day. Related The Nerdery’s Brewmaster on how to pour the perfect beer.
• How empathy breeds viral phenomena.
• From Minneapolis Egoist: “Sartalics are left-leaning italics, indicating sarcasm. A small group of huge nerds is setting out to make it an official font.”
• The Nerd Brain. I think it’s missing the ‘useless song lyrics’ portion.
• The trivialities and transcendence of Kickstarter.
• The Periodic Table of Heavy Metals. Also, The Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense.
• Coke vs Pepsi. StarWars vs. Star Trek. Nirvana vs. Pearl Jam. Gmail vs. Hotmail?
• Fire-breathing LEGO dragon.
• The Evolution of Geek.
• TidBit’s favorite hidden features of OSX Lion.