Friday Links: Some Webchallenge advice & assorted goodness

The Chicago Webchallenge is this weekend and the Minnesota nerds are making their way down to the Windy City to join their Illini-brethren to make websites for needy nonprofits. Good luck to everyone involved!

• If this is your first time participating in the a webchallenge, here’s some advice from past participants. Also, take a look at a few videos so you know what you’ve gotten yourself into. If you want even more, you can read the entire Webchallenge category. Have fun!
• Meet the class of 2015: your future coworkers and customers.
• Scrabble Players ‘know’ more words, but not necessarily what they mean.
• How browsers work.
• Where’s WALL-E like Waldo, except with a ton of awesome robots.
• The questionable birth of Times New Roman
• How Marty and Doc became friends in Back to the Future. I always wondered why they were hanging out together.
• The Nike Swoosh turns 40.