Every Monday through Friday-ish, we post a new Monkey Bite on our frontdoor for your edification. This could be a little news item, a link to a useful site, a handy coding tip, or just some random piece of information we think might be of interest to Web developers. Expired Monkey Bites are stored right here, growing tastier and more sophisticated with each passing day.

This month's Monkey Bites:

11/27/02

Happy thanksgiving, party people! We'll be back in the saddle again on Monday. In the meantime, gobble, gobble! Et cetera!

11/25/02

On November 24, 2003, the Federal phone-number-portability law will go into effect. Finally US cell phone owners will be able to change providers and keep the same phone number (yeah, the one that spells something dirty)! Unless, of course, the deadline gets pushed back again. Which it won't. Probably.

11/25/02

OK so we have caffeinated beer, caffeinated gum, even caffeinated soap. And now, introducing caffeinated lipstick. Kiss and wake-up, young lovahs!

11/21/02

British Pathe has digitized more than 3,500 hours of newsreel footage and now small fries like you can download a piece of history. If you want to use any footage, you have to cough up the pounds. But there's no fee for just looking!

11/18/02

Every time a spoofer spoofs a spoofer, an angel gets its wings!

11/14/02

The Software Usability Research Laboratory brings you "Criteria for Optimal Web Design (Designing for Usability)", a resource that explores the various challenges of designing usable websites (and uses actual research to back up its findings!).

11/12/02

Do something coinstructive with those worthless pennies and solve your holiday gift shopping woes all in one, fell swoop! (Who wouldn't love a Close Encounters mountain or a lawn gnome built entirely out of pennies?)

11/11/02

Don't you hate tiny, last-minute changes on huge Web projects? Ever wish for an obsequious worker-drone that could handle the changes for you? Meet the next-best thing, Macromedia Contribute. Expect a full monkey report later this week!

11/05/02

IE may have cornered what, like, 98.6 percent of the market, but there are still 101 things that Mozilla can do that IE can't.

11/04/02

If the Internet Engineering Task Force has its way, you'll soon be gossiping and wasting time with friends on disparate instant messenger networks using one standard protocol. Until then, there's always Trillian!

11/01/02

Ever wonder what the Web really thinks of you, your friends, or ... Willem Dafoe? Well now you know.




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