by John Hoskin on Jul 14, 2006
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Pirates or Ninjas? Throw in robots and you've got a discussion that is taking place in a basement near you, right now. We throw a lot of contests at Ten Ton Hammer, but thanks to Puzzle Pirates I believe we are now throwing the first one that involves pirates. Winning is easier than walking the plank, bellowing "Arrrrrrrrgh" or wearing an eyepatch. As an added bonus, you have the opportunity to replace one of our advertisements with one of your own creation.
"Fancy yourself an artist? Do you enjoy Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates? Do you like money? If you answered yes to these questions, then enter the Design-an-Ad contest for Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates brought to you by Three Rings Design, the creators of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, GamersInfo.net, GU Comics and Ten Ton Hammer.1st Prize - $250
2nd Prize - $50
3rd Prize - $50Winners will also have their ads run on participating websites for two weeks at the end of the contest period.
Contest runs from July 3rd, 2006 through July 17th, 2006.
Voting for entries will start July 10th, 2006 and entries will be accepted up until the voting deadline. Obviously, the sooner you enter the sooner people can vote on your entry! All entries will be verified for content before being accepted for the contest, so keep it clean! This contest is only open to residents of Canada and the USA.
All entries must be 120x600 in dimension. That's a width of 120 pixels and a height of 600 pixels. They must not exceed 65kb in size. Entries must either be in JPEG, GIF or Flash (.swf) format. Flash files must come in ClickTag format (so an URL can be added at a later date).
All submissions become the property of Three Rings Design, Inc. and may be used as Three Rings Design, Inc. deems appropriate for the purpose of promotions and/or marketing. Questions regarding the use of materials should be directed to Three Rings Design, Inc. at information@threerings.net. "
Enter now and enter often! Show the land lubbers that TenTonHammer.com readers are winners and that (in this case at least) pirates can defeat ninjas!
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And now...the news...
Sports - It appears the fifth time won't be a charm for level 16 Paladin Michellewie, who carded a 6-over 77 at the SPGA (Stormwind Professional Golf Association) Tour's Griffon Classic. PwnUOften is tied for the lead after a stellar 64. Trying for a fifth time to become the first female character (we believe she is played by a balding, 55 year-old man with a beer belly and a compulsion to wear ) since 1945 to make a cut in a SPGA Tour event, the level 16 instead found trouble virtually everywhere she turned Thursday in the first round of the Griffon Classic. In the sand. In the water. In the snow. And in the graveyard -- several times. "It's challenging to hit "straight" when you are a male in a female body, if you know what I mean." Michellewie said.
Nature - A mandatory evacuation order was issued Thursday for hundreds of households in The Crossroads as nearby wildfires burned on, the Barrens Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. The order covers homes north of Grom Gol Farm between Camp Taurajo and the Ratchet County line. The wildfires, burning for the fourth day east of The Crossroads, showed no signs of abating, and firefighters said Thursday that two of them might merge. "We've been flying in Manticore water bombers from the Stagnant Oasis, but Kolkar Freedom Fighters are making it difficult. Some guy named Verog keeps yelling at us, but by the time we get to him he's always bleeding on the ground with a hunter standing over him. We could wait for rain, but it hasn't rained in the Barrens since, well, ever" said the Barrens Fire Chief.
Politics - Imagine being overseas and your identity being available for the taking - your nationality, your name, your passport number. Everything. That's the fear of privacy and security specialists now that the Freeport State Department plans to issue "e-Passports" to Freeport travelers beginning in late August. They'll have radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and are meant to cut down on Iksar error of immigration officials, speed the processing of visitors and safeguard against counterfeit passports. Yet critics are concerned that the security benefit of RFID technology, which combines silicon chips with antennas to make data accessible via radio waves, could be vastly outweighed by security threats to the passport holder. "Basically, you've given everybody a little radio-frequency doodad that silently declares 'Hey, I'm a foreigner,'" says author and futurist Magnanimous Dee, who lectures on the future of RFID technology at Freeport Polytechinic Institute. "If nobody bothers to listen, great. If people figure out they can listen to passport IDs, there will be a lot of strange and inventive ways to exploit that for criminal purposes. Which of course we are all for, so disregard this entire discourse. Remember, there is no FREE in Qeynos. It's all in Freeport."
Hurry along and enter your ad in the Puzzle Pirates contest. We want a winner from TenTonHammer. Nothing less is acceptable!
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-- John "Boomjack" Hoskin
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