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9 Advanced Twitter Tips | Mobile and Social Media

A blogger (Hillel Fuld) collects nine intermediate Twitter tips from his own year of tweeting, aimed at users already familiar with RTs, Tweetdeck and Twitter Search. The practical ones include avoiding ampersands in your bio, using a search for your own name instead of a replies column to save on the 150-calls-per-hour API limit, using Friendfeed to dig up old tweets, keeping tweets near 125 characters so they can be retweeted, and starting replies with a period so all followers can see them. The rest are about etiquette and workflow: interact with people you follow, retweet good content, and use client groups to closely follow under 200 of the 3,000+ accounts he follows.

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Yang tersimpan ini bukan artikel, melainkan kerangka halaman produk Samsung Indonesia yang belum terisi: isinya templat kosong (placeholder seperti {{upgrade.description}}) untuk opsi tukar tambah, pilihan warna dan skin, Samsung Care+, garansi, pengiriman, serta buyback, ditambah tombol lihat lewat AR dan wishlist. Tidak ada argumen atau laporan yang bisa diringkas, dan satu judul di tengahnya, "SEHOKI: Link Apk Situs Slot Jackpot…", beserta daftar keunggulannya tampaknya spam promosi judi online yang disisipkan ke halaman. Jika alasan menyimpannya adalah detail suatu produk Samsung, halaman aslinya perlu dibuka ulang karena kontennya tidak tertangkap di sini.

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Awesome Bubble Navigation with jQuery

There's no article here to summarise. What came through is only a set of website navigation menus (Profile, Home, Shop, Photos, Love, and their submenus such as Portfolio, Catalogue, Gallery, and Comments), with no body text, argument, or reporting. If you paste the article's actual text or share the page again, I can write a summary that distinguishes it from similar saved pieces.

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The New Yorker

Three Trials for Murder

Tim Hennis, an Army sergeant, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 for the murders of Katie Eastburn and her two young daughters in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was acquitted at a retrial in 1989 after the defense dismantled the eyewitness testimony and pointed to unmatched hairs, blood, and footprints. Then in 2005 a detective prompted by a reporter's offhand remark had the preserved sperm samples tested, and the DNA matched Hennis. Because the military and the state are separate sovereigns, the Army recalled the retired Hennis, court-martialled him, and sentenced him to death in 2010, which raises hard questions about double jeopardy and the military's reach over civilian crimes. The piece also weighs lingering doubts, including a discredited state crime lab, and follows the pending appeal over a "break in service" jurisdiction argument, as well as the lives of victim's widower, the detectives, and the reporter whose book had cast Hennis as innocent.

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The Nation

How the GOP Is Resegregating the South

Argues that after the 2010 wave, Republicans who controlled Southern redistricting drew maps that packed black voters into a few overwhelmingly Democratic majority-minority districts while pulling them out of swing or crossover seats held by white Democrats, locking in GOP majorities and leaving the Democratic caucus all-minority and powerless. It centers on North Carolina (Sen. Eric Mansfield's "squid" district, Art Pope, and the RSLC's REDMAP and mapmaker Tom Hofeller) and adds Georgia and Texas as parallel cases. It also covers the fight over Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, noting that Republicans invoke the VRA to justify the packing even as they attack it, and that the Justice Department has pre-cleared nearly every Southern plan except Texas's.

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Rolling Stone

One Town’s War on Gay Teens

Rolling Stone's 2012 investigation into the Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minnesota, where nine students died by suicide in under two years, and four of them were gay or perceived as gay. It traces the tragedy to a district "neutrality" policy (descended from the earlier "No Homo Promo" rule) pushed by religious-right activists tied to Michele Bachmann's circle, which left teachers afraid to intervene in anti-gay bullying. The story follows Brittany Geldert, Sam Johnson and Justin Aaberg, and covers the district's denial, the Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit, and Bachmann's silence. It also gives the district's and the conservative group's argument that mental health, not policy, was the cause.

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The Verge

Longform iPad app brings the web's best reads into one place (hands-on) | The Verge

Review of Longform's new $4.99 iPad app, which turns the long-read curation site into a simple, Instapaper-style reader pulling from 25 sources like The New Yorker, GQ, and The Awl, filtering out slideshows and blog posts and downloading everything for offline reading. The reviewer calls it a solid but barebones first effort for the price, and notes a limitation: it only shows your saved queue if you use Readability, not Instapaper or Read it Later. Editor Max Linsky frames it as a read-later service for "lazy people, and our mothers," with future versions aimed at discovering lesser-known publications, including international ones, and avoiding the guilt of a huge unread count.

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The CSS white-space Property Explained | Impressive Webs

A beginner-oriented walkthrough of the CSS white-space property, starting from how HTML collapses spaces by default and how `<pre>`, `&nbsp;`, and the deprecated `<nobr>` override that. It goes through each value (normal, nowrap, pre, pre-line, pre-wrap), noting what each does with spaces, line breaks, and wrapping, and flags the browser-support gaps for pre-line and pre-wrap in IE7 and old Firefox and Opera. The practical takeaway is that nowrap is the one you'll actually use, such as keeping a "read more »" link from splitting across lines, and that it only affects inline content inside the element, so it won't stop floated boxes from dropping to the next line.

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geoPlugin to geolocate your visitors

GeoPlugin's marketing page for an IP geolocation API that returns country, region, city, ISP, and coordinates from one keyless-looking call, with code samples in JavaScript, PHP, XML, C#, and CSV. It pitches use cases like regional redirects, local currency display, country blocking, and VPN/proxy detection, plus drop-in support for platforms such as Shopify and WordPress. The FAQ is the useful part for telling it apart from similar services: it admits the data comes from MaxMind's GeoLite database (about 99.9% accurate at country level, roughly 80% at city level, refreshed weekly), so the selling point is the bundled plugins and GDPR/CCPA-friendly handling rather than better data.

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Bulletproof HTML5 <details> fallback using jQuery · Mathias Bynens

Explains how the HTML5 details/summary disclosure widget is meant to behave per the spec (hidden by default, toggled via the open attribute and by clicking summary, with keyboard access left unspecified), and shows how to polyfill it while browsers lack support. The fix combines a more robust feature test (after Chrome 10 exposed the open attribute without rendering correctly, later merged into Modernizr), CSS keyed to a no-details class, and the author's jQuery plugin, which also adds ARIA annotations and works down to IE6. It cautions that the plugin only makes sense on sites already using jQuery, and that content stays visible if JavaScript is off.

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www.justbenicestudio.com

Web Symbols typeface

The page is really two pieces stitched together. The first is a short bit of advice on choosing a domain name: brainstorm with a tool like NameFresh, but don't decide alone, and either buy several candidate domains to market-test them or ask colleagues and, better, people from your target audience. The second, much longer part is promotional copy for HostGator coupon codes, claiming discounts like $10 off the "baby" plan or 25% off, praising the cheap "hatchling" starter plan and the upgrade path to VPS and dedicated servers, and telling readers to search for codes and check which ones work. If you saved it for the domain-naming tip, that's the only substantive part; the rest is affiliate-style advertising.

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Scientific American

The Smart Way to Play God with Earth's Limited Land: Scientific American

Mark Lynas argues that since humans already shape 83 percent of ice-free land, the "wilderness" ideal and "back to the land" environmentalism are outdated. The way to stay under the proposed planetary boundary of 15 percent of land as cropland is to intensify farming on the best land rather than go organic, and to scrap biofuel subsidies, reserving biofuels for aviation. He also favors nuclear and renewables for their small land footprints. His most contrarian claim is that urbanisation is among the most environmentally beneficial trends, because it concentrates human impact, speeds the demographic transition, and lets abandoned rural land revert to forest. He admits the caveats: cities have large resource footprints, and vacated land can go to ranching instead of forest.

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