This week we’ve been crazy busy! Anyway, shout out to Holler! They have a show tomorrow night in Hollywood. You should try and make it out! Anyway here’s this week’s FTW links. Again, if you have any that should be shared, list it in the comments. Have a great weekend!

Design

• Beginners Guide to Photoshop Brushes: Making your own brushes is sometimes necessary to get the perfect set of work done.
• 20 Useful CSS Tricks for Beginners: Any little bit helps.
• 5 Steps to CSS Heaven: Anything to make life easier is always a plus.
• Inspiration Served: Hand-Drawn Effects in Web Design: These are really nice!
• 10 Things They Don’t Teach You in Design School: Its not like they taught you much, but here are 10 things that weren’t in any class.

Development

• 16 Very Useful Smarty Scripting Tips and Techniques to Make Templates Smarter: Wow, that’s a really long title!
• Top Reasons to use MySQL: For those of you who really question why you use MySQL.
• 20 Great PHP Libraries You Need to Know: Libraries make everything easier.
• Switching Images With Style: ImageSwitch: A nifty jQuery plugin that allows you to switch between images with effects.
• 10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI: A few things you can do to make your users happier.

Business & Freelancing

• 10 Easy Ways to Increase Average Order Value: Most of these are really simple things you can do.
• 12 Characteristics Essential for Entrepreneurs: I’ve always had some of these characteristics and I’m working on a few others.
• Top 10 Reasons to Start Up in the Recession: The best time to start is when there is less competition.
• Writing a Killer Contract: Contracts are necessary to conduct business. Make sure your’s is kosher.
• Top 11 Small Business Books You Should Read Before Starting An Online Business in 2009: The hardest part of running the show is finding time to read.

Nerdy Geeky Entertaining

• Creepy and Twisted Abandoned Amusement Parks: These are scary. Yes, I’m afraid and I highly doubt I’d be able to walk into any of these. Even if it was a dare or I needed an adventure for the day.
• Flowchart of a Dog’s Mind at a Dog Park: I have always wondered about this.
• Watchmen Advertisements, 1986: I really, really, really want these.
• Geek vs. Nerd vs. Dork: Because we’ve always wanted to know the difference.
• Top 40 Video Game Covers of All Time: F.E.A.R., Resistance, and Diablo, give me nightmares just from looking at the covers.

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

• Sharpie-’stached’ Suspect Turns Into Cop Shop: How dumb can you be to not only accidentally pull into the Police Station but to use a Sharpie mustache and beard as your disguise?
• Is This Why No One Wants to Fight Dr. Manhattan: I warn you now. This is not safe for work, but this is epic funny on a teenage boy scale.
• Darth Vadar Scares His Wife: I’m pretty sure he slept on the couch after this stunt.
• Brazillian Wax Banned: I don’t understand the logic behind this. At all.

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