November
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November
24, 2004
Desktops | On
The Net | Bananas
 At
The Top - 'Twas the morn before T-day and all
things were quiet. But the pixels were perkin', so
you soon broke your diet! But there's no fat to fear
in your craving's condition, 'cuz there's no calories
here in your Wednesday Desktop
Edition! We've a spin and a smile with some
News and the GOO, and to tickle your fancy - a Banana
or two. So sit back, enjoy. Let the smiles begin. Your
eyes will be happy and your desktop will grin!
ShapeShifter
2.0 Now Available...Go Get It!
New GOO!
New Desktops -
Lookin' for an extra plate of GUI goodies for your Thanksgiving
feast? Then you've come to the right place as we have
5 New Desktops on hand for your this week's Desktop
Edition! These fine new works will fill your eyes'
appetite and still leave room for the real food. So set
your forks and knives aside and let your view shine with
pride!
Desktops -
A horse is a horse, of course of course...Unless, of
 course,
you cross the finish line with the vivid imagery by Victor
Emert! All horsing
around aside, Victor heats up your desktop with his
latest addition to the Gallery titled Horse
Collage. As with all of his well crafted works,
you'll find a great mix of pix aimed to please the
eyes' appetite!
Out of the studio and onto your desktop
canvas is the eye-catching  selection
by Bob
Wiley titled Studytwo.
The second in his "Study" series, this
electrifying number is described by Bob as reminiscent
of a lot of graffiti, as well as Chinese characters.
Bob's well renowned and award winning abilities add
just the right charge of energy to your desktop...no
caffeine required!
3
D Rendered - Already ready for Christmas??
Though the time for
 the
giving of thanks has not quite yet come to pass,
the season of giving is about to begin with a very
special treat from ShiftedReality.
Adding the ultimate shine to your desktop design,
Juergen Eilts showcases his natural talents with Xmas
Present. This perfect pic is a gift that will
keep on giving!
Nature -
Want your desktop looking sweet and smelling like a
rose? Joy
of the web and GUI girl Joy Tallant adds nature's affectionate
fragrance and natural appeal to your outlook with White
Rose. From the gorgeous galleries of grnluvbug, this
most pleasurable pixel portrait is perfect
for lovers of purity without the sting of the thorn!
How
does he do it?!! The man with the cam always in hand
gets  another
amazing shot of nature with Arco
Iris. Though double rainbows are by no means all
that rare, William
D. Thompson has seen more of them since he's
been in Mexico than he ever saw before in all of his
life. And now you too can catch a view of life's ultimate
Promise. Enjoy!
Thanks Department
--
Joy, Juergen, Bob, Victor,
and William...
With artists like all of
you,
There's always plenty to
be thankful for!
THANK YOU!
Have a piece you want to display?
Check out our Submissions guidelines
and then send it in!
On The Net
GSFTP 1.3 - Quick, simple,
and to the point. That's what the folks from Gideon
Softworks shoot for with another
release of GSFTP,
now at version 1.3. GSFTP is a web utility that allows
users to efficiently and reliably fetch and transmit
files to any kind of Internet server using FTP or SFTP.
The latest update includes a long list of enhancements
and fixes. For a full view of all the latest, click your
way to Gideon
Softworks and find out what GSFTP
1.3 as to offer!
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Thanksgiving Thanks
Asked to write a composition entitled, "What I'm
thankful for on Thanksgiving," a student wrote, "I
am thankful that I'm not a turkey."
A-Parrotly Turkey
John received a parrot
as a gift. The parrot had a bad attitude and an even
worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth
was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity. John tried
and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently
saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything
else he could think of to "clean up" the
bird's vocabulary.
Finally, John was fed up and he yelled at the parrot.
The parrot yelled back. John shook the parrot and the
parrot got angrier and even ruder. John, in desperation,
threw up his hand, grabbed the bird and put him in the
freezer. For a few minutes the parrot squawked and kicked
and screamed. Then suddenly there was total quiet. Not
a peep was heard for over a minute.
Fearing that he'd hurt the parrot, John quickly opened
the door to the freezer. The parrot calmly stepped out
onto John's outstretched arms and said, "I believe
I may have offended you with my rude language and actions.
I'm sincerely remorseful for my inappropriate transgressions
and I fully intend to do everything I can to correct
my rude and unforgivable behavior." John was stunned
at the change in the bird's attitude.
As he was about to ask the parrot what had made such
a dramatic change in his behavior, the bird continued, "May
I ask what the turkey did?"
Gun Shy
Thanksgiving day was approaching and the family had
received a Thanksgiving card with a painting of a pilgrim
family on their way to church. Grandma showed the card
to her small grandchildren, observing: "The Pilgrim
children liked to go to church with their mothers and
fathers."
"Oh yeah?" her young grandson replied, "so
why is their dad carrying that rifle?
Stuffed Turkey
Baby Bruno was sitting in his grandmother's kitchen,
watching her prepare the Thanksgiving meal.
"What are you doing?" Bruno asked.
"Oh, I'm just stuffing the turkey," his grandmother
replied.
"That's cool!" Bruno said. "Are you going
to hang it next to the deer?"
November
23, 2004
Monkie
News | Network
News
Monkie News
Tomorrow: New
Desktops - As we pluck along on our way to the
big Bird day, you've one last chance to gobble some
GOO as we're roastin' up some fine new goodies for your
Wednesday Desktop Edition! These fine fixin's won't spoil
your appetite; They'll fill your fancy with GUI delight.
So make like mad to the the Monkie bin; For tomorrow
you'll find News, GOO, and Smiles wrapped up with Monkie
spin!
Network
News
the WebWorld -
BeanHead
iChat With Sting - Florida
music students had the stunning opportunity to  see
singer Sting through iSight and chat with him using a
Powerbook G4 supplied by the school district. iChat AV
brought them face to face with the famous musician while
he was readying for a concert in England. The star spent
an hour answering questions about fame and his favorite
music, and even took time to stress the importance of
education to the students. Once again Apple technology
keeps students in tune with their world. -
from MacWorld
Woz Smiles
On Jobs - Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple,
has nothing but  compliments for Steve Jobs when it
comes to commenting on his leadership of the company.
The two Steves keep in contact, but don't really talk
business. There is not really a need. Wozniak, known
as Woz, considers Jobs completely competent and continues
to love what Apple is doing. He says the company is
getting back to many of its original ideas from back
in the day, and credits Jobs with many of those ideas. -
from MacObserver
Gates Is Spam King -
When it comes to receiving spam e-mails, Bill Gates  gets
the crown for the most of anybody. Perhaps it is because
one of his e-mail addresses, billgates@chairman.microsoft.com,
is all over the flyers he mails out, or perhaps it is
just because he is Bill Gates. Whatever the reasons,
he receives more spam than anyone, approximately 4 million
spam e-mails every day. Anti-spam programs narrow those
down so that only about ten spams make it through. -
from MSNBC
November
22, 2004
Community
News | Monkie
Business | Bananas
 At
The Top - Is
it Thursday yet? If you're like the big, fat, Monkie
cat, you're probably looking forward to a fattening feast
come Thanksgiving Thursday. Fourteen Banquet turkey entrees
oughtta do the trick! And that's just the first course.
Anyhoo...we do want to insert a quick note to let you
know that updates will proceed as planned through Thursday.
Then we will take a breather till the following Monday
to sleep off the fat. With that blurb blabbed, let's
let loose the Monkie juice and have some fun!
Community
News
 DV Graphics: Iconize Me! Giveaway -
With the season of thanks and giving about to begin,
DV Graphics just finished up a successful contest, giving away twenty Iconize
Me! Premium packages valued at $35 each. The lucky
winners were the first twenty individuals to enter the
contest.
Iconize Me! is a service that "caricaturises" your photo
and then turns your pixel portrait into an icon. DV
Graphics plans to release its new revamped Iconize Me!
service in the coming weeks. The free icons offered a
great chance for people who were on the fence about an
icon before to take part in all the fun of personal online
caricatures. Hurry over to DV
Graphics and see if you're
a winner of your very own Iconize
Me! premium package!
Monkie Business
The British Are Smiling! -
In addition to silversmithing, Paul Revere practiced
dentistry in colonial Boston. He learned the craft from
a surgeon dentist and advertised himself as being prepared
to fix loose false teeth and to clean teeth.
The Un-Fab Four -
In the early 1960s, opinionist William F. Buckley, Jr.
wrote the following about the Fab Four: "The Beatles
are not merely awful, I would consider it sacrilegious
to say anything less than that they are godawful... They
are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical,
so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art,
that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music."
True Genius - Neither
a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both
together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love,
that is the soul of genius.
- Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Reality - Reality is that
which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K.
Dick
Bananas
Just Plain Nutz!
Turkey Act
Gobbler said, "Doctor, help me! I can't stop
acting like a turkey!"
"I see," said the doctor. "How long have
you had this problem?"
"Let me think a second.
Mom laid the egg in 1954..."
Tall Turkey Tale
Can a turkey jump higher than the Empire State Building?
Yes.
A building can't jump at all.
Rover The Brick
A policeman is walking down the road when he sees a
man with a brick tied to a dog leash. He decides to go
and humor him. He walks up to the man and says, "Hello,
sir, I like your dog!"
The man looks at the brick, then the policeman, and
says, "It's not a dog, it's a brick."
The policeman replies, "Oh, sorry, I thought you
were a bit mad," and walks off rather puzzled.
As the policeman goes out of sight, the man turns to
the brick and says, "That fooled him, didn't it
Rover?"
Get A Leg Up
A turkey farmer was always experimenting with breeding
to perfect a better turkey. His family was fond of the
leg portion for dinner and there were never enough legs
for everyone. After many frustrating attempts, the farmer
was relating the results of his efforts to his friends
at the general store get together. "Well I finally
did it! I bred a turkey that has 6 legs!"
They all asked the farmer how it tasted.
"I don't know" said the farmer. "I never
could catch the darn thing!"
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