Frrrrriday Rrrrroundup! #05

tiny toy cowboy figure with lasso

An end-of-weekly roundup collecting fffffive of the fffffantabulous things I find stumbling around the web during the week here, but which I post on one of the many other Internet outlets I stop by (or tweet at) during my travels. More about the genesis here.

It's been a while since I've gone on a rampage about shitty PowerPoint. Fortunately, the New York Times is picking up the slack. [Tumbled, via Cameron Moll]

Small can be beautiful. Dazzling, even. [Facebook-ed, via Unclutter]

Whose fans are dumber? Yeah, there's an algorithm for that. [Stumbled]

If you're just getting started with Twitter, there are other how-to's you should read first. But I absolutely loved this higher-level, advanced-class writeup of Twitter Best Practices, partly because it graciously and specifically expands on the more esoteric "style" stuff I'm just grumpily alluding to in my own Twitter Policy, and partly because the author would cringe if he knew I'd used the term "best practices." [delicious-ed, via lonelysandwich]

A four-year-old favorite of many, this is the essence of "sweet puppy." And the perfect summation of what's made Flickr magic. [Flickr-faved]

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Image by williac via Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.