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10+ super geeky ways to use Twitter
Using Twitter doesn't have to be a shiny, web 2.0 experience if you don't want it to. There are plenty of ways to tweet like a true geek - from your command line to your Excel worksheets. Who needs an Adobe-air powered client? Not you!
If you've got another geeky way to tweet, share it in the comments!
If you've got another geeky way to tweet, share it in the comments!
Twoogie - I'm not sure which was cooler - Stephen J. Cannell yanking the sheet of paper out of his typewriter, or Doogie Howser, MD clacking away on his PS2 to complete another journal entry. We'll go with Doogie, since someone has wrapped Twitter up in a Neil Patrick Harris-approved applet for us (Not really. In fact, it might eventw piss him off a little.)
Hide it in SpreadTweet - Elliott Kember caused quite the ruckus when this little gem appeared a couple months back. Not really "certified geeky" since it only hides your activities visually. Your transmissions can, of course, still be logged by Big Brother.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
