Dossy Shiobara wrote a nice little utility called the Twitter Karma Tool. It allows you to see in a single page who you’re following, who’s following you, and mutual relationships. One of it’s features that I’ve previously taken advantage of was the “bulk unfollow” button at the bottom of the “only following” view. It would allow you to unfollow anyone who isn’t also following you back. Very useful either if you’re an abusive Twitter user, trying to game their following/followed threashold, or are just a dick.

I haven’t used this feature, well, not for anything important.

bulk unfollowing is, apparently, the wrong kind of automation

About two months ago or so the “bulk unfollow” functionality was removed and this friendly little note was posted to explain.

On January 15, 2010, Twitter instructed us to remove the “bulk unfollow” capability of Twitter Karma as it has been determined to violate their Automation Rules and Best Practices. We have done so in order to comply with their request. We apologize to you, our users, for having to make this change, but hope you will understand it is outside of our control.

Each profile listing still has it’s own link to unfollow that user, but since Dossy removed the automation, I figured I’d recreate it with a super simple bookmarklet.

Twitter Karma Bulk Unfollow
Twitter Karma Bulk Unfollow

Just drag it up to your bookmark toolbar, and unfollow all the people on the page. I decided to not care if a user’s profile checkbox is checked or not, so be warned.

*NOTE* I am very much aware of the irony in having written a bookmarklet to bulk unfollow users through a tool called Twitter Karma.

*UPDATE* I somehow managed to toss the alert() in the wrong place and didn’t catch it somehow. The bookmarklet is now fixed, sorry if annoyed the hell out of you trying to use it.

This is a short film I made about how both coffee and cigarettes have changed my life.

Enjoy.

coffee and cigarettes from Nater Kane on Vimeo.

@womworldnokia, please send me to sxsxi from Nater Kane on Vimeo.

Typically I ignore game/toy Facebook apps that burdon my friends with inane wall posts. Typically their business models hook into some sort of affiliate marketing scheme, and for the most part, these apps are just pollution.

Friend FAQ is exactly like this, though for some reason I still decided to click through and check it out. Finding out who “said” what about you, however, does require you to spend ‘points’. This is something that I do not plan on doing.

Some of what my friends “said” did however make me smile, and many of the answers were very nice, so I thought I’d share.

• Is Nater Kane fun to be around? Yes
• Would you travel the world with Nater Kane? No
• Do you think that Nater Kane lets the “yellow mellow”? Yes
• Is Nater Kane fun to be around? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane will do anything to get what they want? No
• Do you think that Nater Kane can do 20 pushups? Yes
• Would Nater Kane ever dress up in a mascot outfit and run around? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane knows what a fist pound is? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane grinds their teeth while sleeping? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane has ever used steroids? No
• Do you think that Nater Kane has ever given money to a homeless person? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane is a freak? No
• Do you think Nater Kane parties too much? No
• Do you think your first impression of Nater Kane was right? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane is mean? No
• Do you think that Nater Kane can eat more than 3 Big Macs at a time? No
• Would you travel the world with Nater Kane? Yes
• Do you think Nater Kane has ever pulled an all-nighter? Yes
• Find out who answered for 50 coins!Do you think that Nater Kane is a slacker? No
• Do you think that Nater Kane looks good in a bathing suit? No
• Do you think Nater Kane is a spaz? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane has showered today? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane ‘plays with themselves’? No
• Does Nater Kane have a nice butt? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane watches the TV show “24″? Yes
• Have you ever had a crush on Nater Kane? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane has ever fooled around at work? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane has game? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane is cuter than Brad Pitt? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane puts ‘hoes’ before ‘bros’? No
• Do you think that Nater Kane has ever played strip poker? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane knows what a fist pound is? No
• Do you think that Nater Kane is selfish? No
• Do you think that Nater Kane likes blue eyes? Yes
• Is Nater Kane fun to be around? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane voted for Obama? Yes
• Do you think that Nater Kane has a funny looking nose? No

This is book number two for Coda. NOM is currently working on a project built with Kohana, a framework originally based on CodeIgniter.

Their marketing copy reads something like this:

Kohana is a PHP 5 FRAMEWORK that uses the MODEL VIEW CONTROLLER architectural pattern. It aims to be SECURE, LIGHTWEIGHT, and EASY to use.

This book cover is much simpler than the one i produced for Subversion here. I quickly came to realize that there’s no point at all in spending the time to make such a complicated image.

Book Title: Kohana
URL: http://docs.kohanaphp.com/
Simple cover: KohanaBook.png
Use for Mode: PHP-HTML
Search URL: http://docs.kohanaphp.com/?do=search&id=*