Archive for the ‘Monkeys!’ Category
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
We've all wanted to dress a monkey up in a cowboy suit, and make him ride on a dog's back. But so few of us ever get to do it. Plus, those little cowboy hats are so hard to find. Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey is what happens when you follow ...
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
NYT essay on a scientific experiment pitting kids against chimps. Yep, you know the chimps won. Thanks to Steve for sending it along.
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Friday, December 9th, 2005
I've blogged in the past about how the programmers here are always threatening to round-house kick me in the face if I "talk too much" (something I call "marketing") about our upcoming features.
So my good friend Josh sent me this super deadly ninja move to defend myself: Monkey Steals ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
Our good friend Neil (who's working on some kind of top secret travel RSS thingamajig, by the way) sends us this link to Download.com's Code Monkey. Looks like a fairly new "tips, tricks, and reviews" kind of blog, for beginning web designers. If you're a small biz "design-it-yourselfer," you might ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005
Thanks to Matt for sending us this hilarious link to the Trunk Monkey. The concept of an "on-demand chimpanzee assistant" is actually how we thought up MailChimp, over 4 years ago. Except MailChimp's ferocious about sending email, not cracking skulls with a crowbar. Our favorite video is "Bridge." Enjoy!
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Tuesday, September 13th, 2005
Our good friend Matt tells us that ever since he stuck one of our MailChimp business cards on his fridge, his twin boys point and yell out, "It's Maaaaailchiiiiiimp!!!" whenever they walk into the kitchen.
"Too adorable to be true" we told him, so he sent us this movie as ...
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Friday, June 17th, 2005
What better way to showcase your streaming video technology than posting a clip of a karate chimp doing jump spinning hook kicks? Nice viral marketing attempt by the folks at ClipStream. Go ahead---you know you want to send that to a friend. Monkeys are always funny.
Here's the link.
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
A London Auction House is selling artwork by Congo the chimpanzee, who created around 400 drawings during his career as an artist. Picasso reportedly owns some of his work. Thanks to our friend Steve at Code18 for sending us this great link.
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
Police in Arizona are looking to add a Capuchin Monkey (see photo) to their SWAT team. They applied for a $100,000 grant for it, but according to Slate, the monkey itself would only cost about $15,000 while the rest would be for training. We think it would be cool if ...
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
My sister went on vacation to Thailand (thankfully, she avoided the Tsunami) and took this picture at a local zoo.
This
has got to be the funniest monkey picture I've ever seen. Click for
larger view---it's worth it. If you've got any funny monkey pictures of
your own, please share. I gotta admit ...
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