Another week. Another list of awesome links. Well, minus the fail category, but those are awesome in their own way? Enjoy! P.S. We don’t have all 25 links, but these are good. Also, if you know of any links that should be included feel free to let us know.

Design

• 10 Principles of User Interface Design: A good list of what makes a good UI.
• 22 Stunning Typography Tutorials on Photoshop: Text, more text, and even more text. Lets make it pretty!
• 40 Comic Strips for Web Designers: I love this group because its our daily life almost.

Development

• 4 Ways to Decrease Page Loading Time: Small things you can do to help visitors hate you less.
• Stop Being so Damn Clever: A really good strategy when programming & scripting
• A Wai-Aria “Stylesheet“: A how-to to do markup for stylesheet accessibility.

Business & Freelancing

• Charm Clients, Win Pitches: Nails down a good process for writing a proposal and pitching yourself/company to potential clients.
• 30 Internet Marketing Articles: A list of lists. Really good rundown of marketing articles to read.
• 10 Characteristics of a Good Client: Good things to look for when signing on new clients.
• Does Being in Stealth Mode Damage Your Business: Andrew Warner had a crazy discussion about this on Twitter the other day and it was very interesting.
• Is Your Customer Service Offensive or Defensive?: We try really hard to be offensive here at Border7. How about you?

Nerdy Geeky Entertaining

• Operating Systems Interface Design Between 1981-2009: I love the progression of technology and design.
• Spice Up Your Desktop: Really nice desktop backgrounds. I need something to span my two 22″ inch monitors at a 1680 by 1050 pixel resolution. I’m taking suggestions.
• The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist: Remember when you watched Ocean’s 11 and you thought they were totally badass? Well this is the true version, also very badass!
• Office Armory: Shameless plug, but who doesn’t want their own custom painted nerf guns? Our’s are really slick. We’re working on are second group and will have a How-To for you guys later.
• A Non-Geek Lost at a Geek Conference: Always nice to see how other people see it.

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

• American Idol Contestants Sings about Child Molestation: V is hilarious. Anything she writes is always hilarious fail. This is no different.
• Utah Legistlature Propose a Tax on Caffeine: I haven’t had caffeine in 20 days. And I would be very unhappy to come back to their being a tax on my soda.
• Insemination Fight End in Wife’s Arrest: First off, how dumb do you have to be to think a turkey baster is all you need to get someone pregnant. Secondly,  this is just way hilariously that I don’t know how bad of a fail to call it.
• 3rd Man to Try and Commit Suicide Over Niagra Falls and Survive: Fail at life, or rather, fail at failing at life.

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