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:

03/28/03

The Museum of Unworkable Devices is a nice, subtle link to have handy the next time Biz Dev comes up with another goofy-brained scheme.

03/26/03

Much like Sears, now cellphones and boulders finally have a softer side! Nice and cuddly!

03/24/03

Can't quite recall what year Larry Niven won the Nebula Award? Dude, check the Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase! You'll get a bibliography that not only tells you when he landed the award (1970), but also gives you cross-referenced information about interviews with the author, reviews of his work, and his collaborators. The orderly Puppeteers would approve!

03/23/03

Besides Michael Moore's speech at the Oscars and the current... um, world situation, the biggest news in the Monkey quad today is the mud-slinging over intellectual property rights between SCO and IBM. The two companies are in a tiff — SCO says it owns some of the code in IBM's Linux distro. The open source software community is doubtful.

03/20/03

Absence speaks louder than words when it comes to "away messenging" (NYT link, registration required), the new term for the latest trend in the IM world: deliberately messenging people you know are away from their chat clients just to read the wild and crazy witticisms they've left as their away messages.

03/19/03

Remember the "Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House" questionnaires kids would exchange at recess? And how sometimes -- just one poorly aimed toss of the carefully folded binder paper note -- the answers would end up in the wrong hands? Now that MASH is online, all chance has been removed from the equation: Simply CC the entire class and complete social ruination is virtually guaranteed!

03/17/03

With the new CD-RW phone, getting samples of those crazy "baby, baby" or "dude, are you holding?" phone conversations for your latest rap or altnernative punk rock effort is now easier than ever before!

03/12/03

For just US$99, you can turn your "home video moments" into holograms. Or just order yourself a random stranger blowing you a kiss, and never be lonely again!

03/11/03

And in a special report from Frew, our SxSW correspondent ...
You know what I love about Austin? The beer, the music, and the people. Take today: Things started out with a mind-bending talk from Carnegie-Mellon's Marc Rettig. Next came a beer at Lovejoys. And another. And just one more. Then a warm, spring night spent at a backyard launch party with Dakota Smith singing amazing songs like "Squirrel Fight," "Canadian Girlfriend," and "Gigantor" under the big Texas sky. Damn.

03/10/03

Have you ever made ice cream with liquid nitrogen? Or cooked a pizza with the heat of a Datsun? A game hen with hot lava? Now you're cooking with gas! Or wait, no you're not.

03/06/03

Whip up a personalized, customized, style(ish)sheet-y skin for HotBot, and you could win a fabulous prize, such as a 57-inch projection TV, which is like bigger than Evany's car. But you can never win or lose if you don't run the race (still true after all these years, Psychedelic Furs, you geniuses, you!), so enter today!

03/04/03

Sick of trashing spam?
Us too, so do what we do.
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