FTW Friday – 27 Feb 2009
February 27th, 2009 by @kamylynnHere’s this week of links that are FTW.
Design
- 50 Awesome but Weird Photoshop Brushes: I have a lot of these installed, but will I use them? Probably not, but its cool to have them just in case.
- 20 Incredible Photoshop Image Manipulation Techniques: These are some epic tutorials to make some pretty slick scenes.
- A Guide to Using Icons in Web Design: Icons need to be perfect. As you can see, we have our own. We had to figure out ours the hard way because this wasn’t out just yet.
- 50 Minimal Sites: Minimal site design is generally beautiful and effective.
- 18 Wickedly Creative Brochure Designs: We’re working on our own brochure and we love creative, so this was a wonderful find.
Development
- Downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts: Because really, who wants to reinvent the wheel?
- A Scripter at Heart: What’s the difference between programming and scripting?
- Simple jQuery Dropdowns: I like jQuery, especially when it does something useful.
- 15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered with AJAX Techniques: I also like AJAX.
- PHP for Beginners: Some code snippets for starting out.
Business & Freelancing
- Startups in 13 Sentences: 13 bits of wisdom that make a lot of sense and I’m still trying to follow.
- 6 Warning Signs of Problem Client: A good way to gauge the potential trouble you will get into with a client.
- 3 Guidelines for Business learned from Improv: I totally want to attend an education LARP summer camp.
- How to Get More Freelance Gigs through Viral Marketing: The best way to advertise is by getting others to advertise for you (for free).
- 7 Habits of Highly Innovative People: Luckily the Border7 team consists of all these habits (we each have a few).
Nerdy Geeky Entertaining
- 10 Video Games that Should Be Considered Modern Art: A good rundown of games that are just gorgeous games.
- Why the Japanese hate the iPhone: Maybe the 10 years of living in Japan is the reason behind my aversion for the iPhone.
- Peanuts Watchmen: See, this is how awesome the movie is, the classic Peanuts wish they were them!
- Wired Interview with Alan Moore: See the trend here? Yes, Watchmen is coming out next week! And here Alan Moore discusses the progression of American Comic Books
- Wired Interview with Dave Gibbons: Dave Gibbons discusses his artwork and the upcoming movie.
Absolute Fail – Either really bad stuff, or really funny stuff that its so bad.
- Amazon pulls rape simulator: And you thought GTA was bad, well prepare to have your video game morals raped.
- Dinosaurs #$%^ing Robots: WTF?! That’s all I have to say about this.
- Man Helped Women Cross Street, Gets a Ticket: This guy helps two ladies out, SAVES them, gets hit by a truck, and some cop gave him a jaywalking ticket.
- No Time for Stamps: Can someone tell me if this actually work?
- WTF is Watchmen?: Little YouTube video interviewing some peeps. All I gotta say is, if you don’t know what Watchmen is…we may have a problem.








February 27th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Dinosaur F***** Robots is the most novel site I’ve seen in a while O.o
February 27th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Awesome! Thanks for the PHP for beginners, I have an odd feeling that will come in handy with my upcoming class. Can’t wait for Watchmen
February 27th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
Dinosaur F****ing Robots made me lol while at work. Thanks guys
November 12th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Nice showcases of brochure