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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.
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 ...
