Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Step into the colorful world of illustrator Nikki Farquharson http://depot.ly/krWlZ

Photographers, bookmark this: 20+ Cheatsheets & Infographics http://depot.ly/krUW9

3 Mozilla Webmaker #tools you should know http://depot.ly/krVG9  via @hongkiat

Quick and cool tips for #CSS Background Animations http://depot.ly/krUqj

Why Facebook just bought Parse, a toolkit loved by mobile-app devs http://depot.ly/krTJv

TV slowly dying: Coke ditches TV advertising for digital http://depot.ly/kpxbU

10 brilliant poster designs you must see http://depot.ly/kptJ4

Cool! The World’s First Annual Report on Instagram http://depot.ly/kpx2r  via @designworklife

Handy tutorial for beginners http://depot.ly/kptul  InDesign and Illustrator, Photoshop’s Best Friends

Here’s an interesting idea: Jane Austen, the original game theorist http://depot.ly/kpeys

Step into the flowery world of Malin Rosenqvist http://depot.ly/kncdj

Take a peek in the magical and mystical world of El Curiot’s paintings http://depot.ly/kn3Go

.@SethGodin talks about pandering, creativity and great results http://depot.ly/kn4mI  *Must-read

Hyundai Motor: Showroom Product Guide Design http://depot.ly/kn33Q  *An inspiring #design case study via @creativeofblog

The Little Golden Book of Words http://depot.ly/kkzcr  A Rare Illustrated Gem from 1948

Fight for literacy in France has a cool ad campaign posters http://depot.ly/kkyGv

Is Photoshop Really Dead? Repurposing Photoshop For The Web http://depot.ly/kkB1X  Good read via @smashingmag

Analytics with Crazy Egg via @davidwalshblog – http://ow.ly/kkAmS  *worth checking out

What was science fiction in 1993 has turned into just science in 2013 http://depot.ly/kij3Q

Rare, Incredible Portraits Of Native Americans From The Early 1900s http://depot.ly/ke3jH

 Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot

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Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Step into the colorful world of illustrator Nikki Farquharson http://depot.ly/krWlZ

Photographers, bookmark this: 20+ Cheatsheets & Infographics http://depot.ly/krUW9

3 Mozilla Webmaker #tools you should know http://depot.ly/krVG9  via @hongkiat

Quick and cool tips for #CSS Background Animations http://depot.ly/krUqj

Why Facebook just bought Parse, a toolkit loved by mobile-app devs http://depot.ly/krTJv

TV slowly dying: Coke ditches TV advertising for digital http://depot.ly/kpxbU

10 brilliant poster designs you must see http://depot.ly/kptJ4

Cool! The World’s First Annual Report on Instagram http://depot.ly/kpx2r  via @designworklife

Handy tutorial for beginners http://depot.ly/kptul  InDesign and Illustrator, Photoshop’s Best Friends

Here’s an interesting idea: Jane Austen, the original game theorist http://depot.ly/kpeys

Step into the flowery world of Malin Rosenqvist http://depot.ly/kncdj

Take a peek in the magical and mystical world of El Curiot’s paintings http://depot.ly/kn3Go

.@SethGodin talks about pandering, creativity and great results http://depot.ly/kn4mI  *Must-read

Hyundai Motor: Showroom Product Guide Design http://depot.ly/kn33Q  *An inspiring #design case study via @creativeofblog

The Little Golden Book of Words http://depot.ly/kkzcr  A Rare Illustrated Gem from 1948

Fight for literacy in France has a cool ad campaign posters http://depot.ly/kkyGv

Is Photoshop Really Dead? Repurposing Photoshop For The Web http://depot.ly/kkB1X  Good read via @smashingmag

Analytics with Crazy Egg via @davidwalshblog – http://ow.ly/kkAmS  *worth checking out

What was science fiction in 1993 has turned into just science in 2013 http://depot.ly/kij3Q

Rare, Incredible Portraits Of Native Americans From The Early 1900s http://depot.ly/ke3jH

 Want more? No problem! Keep track of all our tweets by following us @DesignerDepot

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Congratulations to Omar Shehab (CS Ph.D.), who has been awarded two NSF travel grants to attend research conferences this June.

First, Omar has received an NSF travel grant to attend the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity. The conference celebrates research in all areas of computation complexity theory, taking a look at the absolute and relative power of computational models under resource constraints. Specific topics include probalistic and interactive proof systems, proof complexity, and descriptive complexity. The conference will be held in Palo Alto California, June 5-7.

Omar has also received an NSF travel grant to attend the 45^th ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC 2013). Here, he will be presenting a poster entited: "Hamiltonian complexity of Trefoil knot transformations." The conference is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT). It will explore original research on the theory of computation. The conference will be held in Palo Alto California, June 1-4.

Omar started UMBC’s Computer Science Ph.D. program in 2010. He is currently pursuing research under the supervision of Dr. Samuel J. Lomonaco Jr. Omar’s doctoral work exlpores adiabatic quantum Hamiltonian complexity, quantum computational simulation of topology and use of quantum optics to understand device independent cryptography. He is currently a Teaching Assistant for CMSC 641: Design and Analysis of Algorithms.

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Next week  Ben Affleck and other celebrities including Sophia Bush, Josh Groban, Debi Mazar and Hunter Biden will take part in the Live Below the Line campaign by spending $1.50 on food and drink for a day.  They will tweet their experiences on Monday through Friday,  raising awareness for the 1.4 billion people around the world living at this level of extreme poverty. 

What do you think…?

Worthy social action or Hollywood publicity stunt?

As you may recall, last November the nation was shocked when Hostess announced it would be closing the doors of all 36 of its factories after labor disputes. 

The Twinkie snack cake, the iconic cream-filled vanilla pastry, had been the lunchtime sugar-buzz treat of children in America for generations.

But when people heard that the Twinkie was being cast into the junk-food junkyard, they went into a Twinkie frenzy. 

Hysteria around the snack cake mounted. Fears of shortage had people rushing to their local grocery stores and buying hundreds at a time. People, hoping to make a quick buck, started listing the tasty treats on eBay for thousands of dollars.

It seemed that to many in America, the loss of Hostess’ golden processed package of joy was a national tragedy, akin to if Ford Motors or Levi’s Clothing had gone bankrupt. It was a marker of America’s decline.

But now fake-cream connoisseurs everywhere can rejoice.

In a surprising twist, Hostess Brands LLC will be reopening their Kansas factory and resuming production of the Twinkie, expected to appear back on shelves by July.

No doubt, the valiant return of the Twinkie means snack time America is Back! (play patriotic music)

With business prospects rising and hope in the economy being slowly–but surely–restored, the pre-recession America that we all know and love, just might be on its way back. After all, what could be more American than bread, butter, and mountains of sugar?