easiest $125 I have earned in a while… run around outside for an hour before the tampa lightning hockey game promoting blackberry.. then run around inside during the 1st period… then we got seats in the lower section and watched the rest of the game…
In Firefox with the Firebug console open, you probably get “Permission denied to call method Location.toString”. This error will get thrown on any page that has a Flash file inside an iframe. The error is prevalent because many ROS ads (Doubleclick, etc.) are served in this exact way. Adobe has a JIRA bug open that they have marked with the absolute lowest priority possible (none) because “the error is cosmetic. Exposes no functional or security issues.”
The only solution/workaround is to avoid putting any iframes with Flash on your page. This solution doesn’t work for many developers who have no control over the way ads are served, but Adobe claims it isn’t really a problem.
See error on this example page. This example has a swf inside an iframe that is embedded with swfobject. keithlam.com and overrated.org both have the most permissive crossdomain files possible.
This is a historical graph of the interest rate on my savings account since I opened my ING Direct account on Sept. 13th, 2005 to today. I have since “day-traded” my savings accounts between ING, HSBC, e*Trade, and Capital One. The interest rates vary from a peak of 5.05% to a low of 2.5%. My rate was 3.75% as recently as Nov. 2008. Today I’m earning 3.01% with e*Trade.
A graph of the interest rate of my savings accounts.
| Date | ING Direct | Other |
| 09/13/05 | 3.30% | |
| 11/03/05 | 3.50% | |
| 12/08/05 | 3.75% | |
| 02/01/06 | 3.80% | |
| 03/31/06 | 4.00% | |
| 04/30/06 | 4.15% | |
| 05/31/06 | 4.25% | |
| 06/30/06 | 4.35% | |
| 08/21/06 | 4.35% | 5.05% |
| 11/29/06 | 4.50% | 5.05% |
| 07/19/07 | 4.30% | 5.05% |
| 09/26/07 | 4.30% | 4.50% |
| 11/01/07 | 4.20% | 4.50% |
| 12/13/07 | 4.10% | 4.50% |
| 12/20/07 | 4.10% | 4.25% |
| 01/23/08 | 3.65% | 4.25% |
| 01/29/08 | 3.65% | 3.80% |
| 02/01/08 | 3.40% | 3.80% |
| 02/04/08 | 3.40% | 3.55% |
| 03/11/08 | 3.10% | 3.55% |
| 03/19/08 | 3.00% | 3.55% |
| 03/20/08 | 3.00% | 3.05% |
| 06/02/08 | 3.00% | 3.50% |
| 07/31/08 | 3.00% | 3.75% |
| 10/09/08 | 2.75% | 3.75% |
| 11/01/08 | 2.75% | 3.60% |
| 12/01/08 | 2.75% | 3.32% |
| 12/30/08 | 2.50% | 3.32% |
| 01/10/09 | 2.50% | 2.75% |
| 01/11/09 | 2.50% | 3.01% |
I work at ESPN, but I’m still surprised when I see myself on TV. I mean it isn’t like I am ever supposed to be on TV…
The ad on TV for ESPN’s Sound Off
The original photo
I thought that winning the Heisman Trophy was like a curse because Heisman winners lose the national championship game. Apparently I was wrong because Leinart accomplished the feat pretty recently and it has happened 11 times. On the other hand, Jason White laid an egg in 2003 Championship when he won the Heisman, and tonight Sam Bradford wasn’t nearly as good as the rest of the season. Maybe it is just when Oklahoma quarterbacks win the Heisman, then they won’t win a championship…
| National Championship and Heisman in the Same Year | ||
| Year | Name | School |
| 1938 | Davey O’Brien | TCU Horned Frogs |
| 1941 | Bruce Smith | Minnesota Golden Gophers |
| 1943 | Angelo Bertelli | Notre Dame Fighting Irish |
| 1945 | Doc Blanchard | Army Black Knights |
| 1947 | John Lujack | Notre Dame Fighting Irish |
| 1949 | Leon Hart | Notre Dame Fighting Irish |
| 1976 | Tony Dorsett | Pittsburgh Panthers |
| 1993 | Charlie Ward | Florida State Seminoles |
| 1996 | Danny Wuerffel | Florida Gators |
| 1997 | Charles Woodson | Michigan Wolverines |
| 2004 | Matt Leinart | USC Trojans |
Facebook has had gifts for sale for a couple years now, but they never really pushed them on users until today. The gifts are just pictures that show up on a user’s profile, but they give them special placement, so people like to pay the $1 to make a friend feel special. Today, Facebook put “Give Gift” as the default on a user’s profile when it is their birthday instead of the normal “Write” wall post. It was actually kind of hard to figure out how to not pay for a gift and just leave a normal post because I thought the box below the gifts the normal leave a wall post box. I’m sure that this is a good source of revenue for Facebook, because they are getting money for literally nothing (tangible at least).
Every Christmas, ESPN shows the names of every employee in the credits after SportsCenter. This is a screenshot with my name right in the middle.
ESPN has launched a redesign beta of the site to Insiders to preview before the site is officially launched for everyone. Here is a side-by-side comparison with the current frontpage and some highlights.
Robin Hood in a duel with Maverick is all I can picture in my head when I read an article or see something on TV about the election. Everyone talks about how Obama (Robin Hood) wants to spread the wealth around. Less imagination is needed for McCain (Maverick) because the media literally interchanges his name with maverick because he “crosses party lines.”
ESPN + Apple = iPod Touch Ad
Innovative Apple webpage ads have gotten lots of press in past (see below). Hopefully, ESPN will get some of that Apple sheen to rub off with this latest ad that takes over elements on the page.
— AdAge “Apple Pulls a Wii and ‘Breaks’ a Web Page With Latest Ad”