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:
02/28/03
Even the most experienced designers struggle with design critiques. What to do when the User Experience Guru and the Marketing Maven are reduced to fisticuffs over the location of the nav bar? Or when the client loves only purple? Lucky for you, lucky for me, there are
guidelines you can follow to help you stay the course.
If you were waiting for some sort of cool patrol seal of approval before you bought or even downloadedDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom, the new novel from Boing Boing's co-editor Cory Doctorow, then the wait is over: The Onion has given it a thumbs up, so the light is green my friends.
02/24/03
Evany is finally selling her ridiculous(ly cute!) car with hopes of buying something nice and sensible, you know, something with power steering, A/C, more seatbelts than ashtrays ... perhaps even something a little techno cool?
02/20/03
The result? A bouncing, cooing
Webmonkeyblog! Who knows what it will be when it grows up, but for now it's part web-dev news and part
slice of day-to-day Webmonkey life, all swirling down a raging river of consciousness. Read it, weep ... and
perhaps leave a comment!
If you're a chat junkie and all of your friends are "away" or "busy" or "ignoring YOU," why not try chatting up a bot? Pandora Bots is a new site for hosting and building chatbots based on the open source Alicebot. You can even build your own!
02/13/03
Remember the days when the big "new media" companies were buying up all the cute, small content sites? And then laying everyone off, keeping the content, and not doing anything with it? Well, like the first sprigs of grass struggling through Winter's snow, some of those little sites are making a comeback. Happy Valentine's Day, Breakup Girl! Happy Valentine's Day, young lovers (also: middle-aged and elderly lovers)!
02/12/03
The power of 404 can be harnessed to do almost anything, even create cutting political commentary. Right, Grasshopper?
02/11/03
BBC News wants you to snap d-pics for peace! Wait, no, they want you snap d-pics of peace marches. Ah! And then maybe if you're good enough, strong enough, and people like you enough, they'll post your pic in their anti-war protest gallery, which sure is going to look hot on your resume.
02/10/03
Feeling insecure? Sign your bad self up for this year's RSA Conference (April 13 through 17, San Francisco). The theme? "Secrets of the Maya," which, yes, sounds a little Discovery Channel, but is actually aproppriately cryptic.
02/06/03
Oh my god, the "bubble-headed" robot, designed to help sick people and live-alone elderly, is so crazy-cute ... it's like infinity times cuter than the "I've fallen and I can't get up" beeper.
02/04/03
We can all finally stop wearing tinfoil on our heads, thanks to MindGuard, "your source for the award-winning ... anti-mind-control software for Amiga and Linux computers." Whew!
