{"id":134,"date":"2005-09-26T22:50:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T06:50:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:35","slug":"september-randoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/09\/september-randoms","title":{"rendered":"September Randoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some items of interest from this month:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keith, Matt, Nick, and Brian just launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueflavor.com\" target=\"_blank\">BlueFlavor<\/a> tonight.  Head on over and check out their new shop.<\/li>\n<li>Andy, Richard, and Jeremy launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clearleft.com\" target=\"_blank\">ClearLeft<\/a> last week.  Very check-out-worthy as well.<\/li>\n<li>I just won my fantasy football match against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9rules.com\/whitespace\" target=\"_blank\">Scrivs<\/a> tonight and am quite happy about it. In all fairness, my linebacker injured his wide receiver on Monday Night Football so it should have been closer. In other news, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.9rules.com\" target=\"_blank\">NeinR\u00c3\u00bcLz<\/a> network continues to grow impressively.<\/li>\n<li>Finkbuilt is having a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finkbuilt.com\/blog\/ketchup-label-design-contest\" target=\"_blank\">ketchup label design contest<\/a>. Enter and win yourself some two-dollar bills.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/09\/ipod-giveaway-6\">6th Monthly iPod Giveaway<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have a ton of entries yet but has raised over $1600 so far for the Red Cross in the first week.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m at the end of my rope with this Comcast HD PVR, and let me just tell you once again how badly it sucks. If you want to start watching way less TV, this is your device. If you like watching TV, however, definitely stick with your Tivo or another alternative.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of annoying TV-related things, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8755935\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Cosby<\/a>, MSNBC&#8217;s new correspondent has a very annoying way about her. Am I the only one who is totally creeped out by her voice?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonsantamaria.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stan<\/a> pointed me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leoburnett.ca\/\">Leo Burnett site<\/a> recently. It&#8217;s one of the most creatively designed and produced sites I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time.<\/li>\n<li>If anyone wants to create something really useful, develop an RSS-delivered web service which lets you know about <em>every<\/em> concert coming to your town before tickets even go on sale. I just found out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackkeys.com\" target=\"_blank\">Black Keys<\/a> played in Seattle last week. Slipped right past me, as these things sometimes do. I know there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upcoming.org\" target=\"_blank\">Upcoming.org<\/a>, but for some reason they seem to miss a lot of stuff and aren&#8217;t very timely either. Is there anything better out there right now?<\/li>\n<li>I am liking Flash 8 quite a bit so far. The built-in components are still bloated as all hell though. I needed to make a simple MP3 player the other day and using the built-in media controller, it was 80k. I ended up hand-rolling a player instead and got it down to 3k including the skin. Hand-built components are still apparently the best way to deploy media in Flash&#8230; for audio at least. Also, with regards to Flash 8, we&#8217;ll be releasing a new version of <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/sifr\">sIFR<\/a> pretty soon which takes advantage of the new Saffron text-rendering engine. I wouldn&#8217;t call this a mandatory upgrade at all, but it will provide crisper text &#8212; especially at small sizes &#8212; for people who have Flash 8 installed.<\/li>\n<li>One of the best articles I&#8217;ve ever read on electronic media evolution is <a href=\"http:\/\/majestic.typepad.com\/seth\/2005\/03\/automata.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Goldstein&#8217;s Media Futures<\/a>. It&#8217;s a five part piece with the fifth part itself being five parts, so make sure to read the whole thing when you get a chance. I first read Seth&#8217;s essay a few months ago but have re-read it a couple of times since. Great stuff. Seth also led an interesting discussion at Foo Camp on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attentiontrust.org\" target=\"_blank\">Attention Trust<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haagen-dazs.com\/segicd.do;jsessionid=OKICFEOBFNGI?productId=178\" target=\"_blank\">Bananas Foster<\/a> ice cream from Haagen Dazs is very, very good.<\/li>\n<li>Trimming your blogroll can be quite therapeutic.<\/li>\n<li>Crest Vanilla Mint toothpaste tastes a lot like a Captain &amp; Coke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some items of interest from this month:  Keith, Matt, Nick, and Brian just launched BlueFlavor tonight.  Head on over and check out their new shop. Andy, Richard, and Jeremy launched ClearLeft last week.  Very check-out-worthy as well. I just won my fantasy football match against Scrivs tonight and am quite happy about it. In all fairness, my linebacker injured his wide receiver on Monday Night Football&#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-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}