{"id":104,"date":"2005-07-08T12:50:45","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T20:50:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:36","slug":"ipod-winner-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/07\/ipod-winner-3","title":{"rendered":"iPod Giveaway #3: We Have a Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competitor &#8220;joshua&#8221; was right when he <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/06\/ipod-giveaway-3#5063\">questioned<\/a> whether most entries in the third monthly iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition correctly followed the instructions of exploring alternative uses of iPods. Luckily, however, we applaud the breaking of rules here at Mike Industries, and that is why I&#8217;m happy to announce this month&#8217;s winner and a new honor roll of the top 30 entries&#8230; some following the rules more closely than others.<\/p>\n<p>So without further ado, congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/animeniac06\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie D.<\/a>, whose crudely assembled infomercial about sending iPod Shuffles full of music into space <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/animeniac06\/ipod\/icontact.html\" target=\"_blank\">is available for viewing here<\/a>. It&#8217;s an interesting concept for sure, and one which holds special significance after seeing NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/deepimpact\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ram a spacecraft<\/a> with thousands of names on it into a comet earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie will receive an iPod Shuffle from me, and a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipodlounge.com\/index.php\/accessories\/product\/etymotic-research-er-6i-isolator-headphones\/\" target=\"_blank\">$150 Etymolic earbuds<\/a> from the nice folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipodlounge.com\" target=\"_blank\">iPodLounge.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a slideshow of the top 30 non-video entries with the first 10 being the runners-up, in order of greatness. The last 20 are in random order:<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 10px; width: 450px; text-align: center\">\n<div id=\"slideshow_shuffle3\" style=\"height:442px; width: 418px; border: 1px solid #000; margin: 0 auto 0 auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\">\r\n<!--\r\nif (swfobject.hasFlashPlayerVersion(\"7.0.0\")) {\r\nshowFlash('https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/photos\/shuffle3\/shuffle3.swf','slideshow_shuffle3', 418,442,'https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/photos\/shuffle3\/');\r\n} else {\r\ndocument.write('<p style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #660000\">Please install <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\">Flash 7<\/a> in order to view slideshow.<\/p>');\r\n}\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<div id=\"slideshowcaption\" style=\"padding-bottom: 15px; width: 450px; text-align: center; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic\">Sweet slideshow component made with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshowpro.net\" target=\"_blank\">SlideShowPro<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Stay tuned for the next installment of the Mike Industries iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition slated to begin around the middle of this month.  And as always, the <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/03\/ipod-shuffles-for-everyone\">submission pool<\/a> remains open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competitor &#8220;joshua&#8221; was right when he questioned whether most entries in the third monthly iPod-A-Month Creativity Competition correctly followed the instructions of exploring alternative uses of iPods. Luckily, however, we applaud the breaking of rules here at Mike Industries, and that is why I&#8217;m happy to announce this month&#8217;s winner and a new honor roll of the top 30 entries&#8230; some following the rules more closely than others. So without further ado, congratulations to Charlie D., whose crudely assembled infomercial about sending iPod Shuffles full of music into space is available for viewing here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}