Fish gotta… something: HodgePodge for Aug. 2

​Welcome to another episode of HodgePodge, brought to you from our brick enclosed nerve center in Shockoe Bottom.

Fish do it all the time

What would happen if everyone peed in the ocean at the same time? Spoiler alert: not much. If those kinds of calculations interest you though, you’ll probably like the XKCD What If? blog.

Would that be semi-hydrophobic?

Sorry to disappoint the entire Internet, but Slate says NeverWet isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.

Bookish people

The Atlantic asked a bunch of authors for their favorite first lines from books. They’d pretty much all make for good tweets.

Seriously unfunny

A company called Personal Audio has been threatening podcasters with patent lawsuits, including comedian and podcaster Mark Maron, who isn’t taking it laying down.

Kids those days

Catfishing, that thing where predators create false online identities to rope unsuspecting college football players into fake relationships, is a sign of the decline of our society brought on by an insidious new technology… the telegraph.