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Friday Links: The future of online advertising & new elements get their names

• Do you make websites? Have you taken ALA’s 2011 survey for people who make websites? You should!
• The future of online advertising.
• How a geek cracked the Jeopardy! code
• Spock tree topper.
• Clever commercials are often bad for business.
• 11 sounds kids have probably never heard, unless of course they read that article or watched any old-timey tv, or, well, it’s still amusing.
• DesigNerd trivia game.
• Wipe t-shirt perfect for glasses-wearing nerds.
• Malcolm Gladwell reviews the Steve Jobs biography, calls him the consummate tweaker.
• On Amazon’s Ominvoracious blog they talk to Settlers of Catan creator on how the game is becoming an novel.
• Three elements in the Periodic Table get their names.

Profiles in Nerdery: Justin Hendrickson, drummer for Raspberry Caturday

• Astrological Sign: Virgo (please refrain from nerd/virgin jokes)
• Time at the Nerdery: Longer than Aesop and I haven’t even thrown up on the floor yet.
• Area of expertise: Internet.
• When people ask you what you do, how do you respond: Drummer for my Rock Band band, Rasberry Caturday. We have a gig every Friday at The Nerdery. Come check us out. (I program stuff too.)
• Favorite kinds of projects to work on: Anything that does not involve spelling Raspberry correctly.
• What one thing about The Nerdery surprises people the most when you tell them about it: That we actually get work done.
• Seven dream Jeopardy Categories: 1. Settlers of Catan; 2. Words Justin can’t spell; 3. Rock Band DLC recommendations (all answers take the form of “Who is Phil Collins”); 4. Laughable “Heroes” Plotlines; 5. Zend Framework; 6. Losing at Bug House; 7. There are only six categories per round in Jeopardy!*
• Favorite Fictional Nerd: I like my nerds non-fictional, thank you very much.
• According to the Wikipedia entry on Nerd, some nerds show a pronounced interest in subjects which others tend to find dull or complex and difficult to comprehend, or overly mature for their age, especially topics related to science, disambiguation, mathematics and technology. Do you know what disambiguation is: Hey, I edit Wikipedia.

*Editor’s note: In my defense, I ripped off the idea of the dream Jeopardy categories from Douglas Coupland’s 1995 novel Microserfs where the characters list their seven dream Jeopardy categories