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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-20

By Chris | Published: September 20, 2009
Exam­ple of a *great* 404 page: http://www.43folders.com/topics/productivity/page/8/ Gives you lots of options # Some­one needs to develop a Twit­ter fil­ter that throt­tles fre­quency of any author’s tweets down to a max of n/hr. On/off is way too lim­ited. # From This Amer­i­can Life, “lex­i­cal gap”: Term for when we just don’t have a word for some­thing (but [...]
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TwitterFox Addon Makes it Super-Easy to Tweet Your Favorite Pages

By Chris | Published: September 18, 2009
I’m all about the fast process, and I’m pretty impa­tient. There­fore, I love things like the Twit­ter­Fox addon for Fire­Fox (get it here). From 12seconds.tv It’s always in my browser, so when­ever I see some­thing I’d like to share, all I have to do is click on its lit­tle icon at the bot­tom of the page, and [...]
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Tips for the Unscrupulous Web Developer, Part 1: Code

By Chris | Published: September 17, 2009
Note: For those not as famil­iar with irony, this series of posts is intented to use humor to illus­trate impor­tant points about get­ting a web­site that works for them, and the poten­tial pit­falls along the way. —ed. One thing you fig­ure out pretty early on in the web biz: You don’t really have to know how to [...]
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-13

By Chris | Published: September 13, 2009
I saw a fox! # This BRILLIANT plu­gin adds Kuler.com schemes right into your Mac app’s color selec­tor dia­log. #web­de­sign http://tinyurl.com/crejaa # Very cool site w free grunge tex­tures & matches them w sug­gested Kuler.com col­ors http://urbandirty.com/gallery/ #web­de­sign # Cig­a­rettes have main­tained their sta­tus among teea­gers long after they became uncool in the rest of Amer­i­can soci­ety. # http://twitpic.com/gw232 [...]
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“Even If it Meant I Had to Go Hungry”

By Chris | Published: September 6, 2009
“When I was in col­lege, I made a promise to myself that I was never going to do work I didn’t love, even if it meant I had to go hungry.” –Gar­ris­son Keillor addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realsimplesuccess.com%2Feven-if-it-meant-i-had-to-go-hungry%2F'; addthis_title = '%E2%80%9CEven+If+it+Meant+I+Had+to+Go+Hungry%E2%80%9D'; addthis_pub = '';
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