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Twitterbelle: use favorites to find new people to follow
Favorites are a dramatically underused feature on Twitter, but if you know where to look, you can use them to find some people you might be interested in following. Twitterbelle is a new site that makes that process easier. Just put in the username of someone you think is interesting and has good taste in friends, and you'll see a list of the people he or she has awarded favorites to. This is a bit more effective than just going down someone's following list, which will be chronological, not ranked, and sometimes extremely long. Maybe someone's following thousands of people, but favorites point out who they're really paying attention to. You can obviously also use Twitterbelle to check out your own favorites and see who's getting the most gold stars from you.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
