Here’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.

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