So today, we’re not going to be in the office that much. Watchmen comes out. Yes, I’ve already seen it once and am about to watch it again. So here’s today’s links, and I hope you enjoy the movie as much as I have.

Design

• 20 Fantastic Wallpapers from Deviant Art: The worlds full of great artists and creative individuals.. I’m jealous.
• 7 Tips to improve your online portfolio: If your a freelancer then your portfolio is going to be your strongest selling point, make it count.
• 42 Awesome twitter background: I know you have one, thinking about making it your own? Get inspired!
• 10 Innovative Blog Layouts: You could fill a library with great blog designs, but heres a look a some interesting structures used in the blog world today.
• 12 Best Premium Vector Packs: Yes Vectors! They are all the rage. And if you want the best of the best, go here.

Development

• 20 useful PHP components & tutorials for everyday project: a really good list of nifty PHP, AJAX, and frameworks.
• HTML Validation: Does it matter? When was the last time you ran across a perfectly valid site? Hows yours? What does validation mean anyway?
• Guidelines for highly effective websites: Exactly what it sounds like.
• 4 Tools to prevent hard drive failure: Last thing you need is your computer to go toast, so make sure you backup in addition to all this.
• Tip – 3 Useful JavaScript functions: Nice ways to create new elements, style those elements, and toggle those elements.

Business & Freelancing

• Why you should bill everything: this explains why when someone asks for a favor, you should say no, and then some.
• 50 free press release submission sites: another really good resource to have.
• 13 steps to a successful website launch: checklists and to-do’s are a good way to ensure you don’t miss something.
• How much is your site worth? Come on, you know you wanna know…
• Four Old-School Reasons Why You Can Thrive in this Recession: The economy is down, oh woe is me, make sure you come out on top.

Nerdy Geeky Entertaining

• Small asteroid misses the Earth: I wonder if NASA had a team of oil drillers prepared, just in case…
• Miniature Cities: Holy crap, they are so detailed you just want to stomp on it like Godzilla.
• 25 Sites to have fun with your photos: So you have a bunch of random photos from that party last week, now what?
• 10 Best Photoshop-like iPhone apps: Need Photoshop on your Iphone? Well tough luck, there’s not a photoshop app just yet, but heres some that come close.
• Playfield diagram for the bases: So next time you tell your homies you got to 2nd base with that girl from the party you can actually draw it out.

Absolute Fail – Either really bad stuff, or really funny stuff that its so bad.

• Pedobear makes an appearance at a basketball game: Why does Pedobear insist on being everywhere?
• Hardcore Bacon Lover?: I have no words.
• Cop attacks a 15 year old who kicked her shoe: I don’t think kicking a shoe at you constituted this. At all.
• Detective “forced alleged gang-rape victim to have sex in police station”: Homeboy is terrible. Raping a rape victim, and also raping another person.
• Rapist asks for death, fears rape in prison: this is what I call irony.

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