Win an iPod Shuffle
When spin master Steve Jobs started revealing new iPods there was palpable dissapointment. No widescreen job for movies? The nanos are suddenly retro minis with an extra touch of ugly mixed in? Then came the shuffle. Suddenly the most clunky of the iPod family became the most desirable
You want an iPod shuffle. You want the solid-state goodness, the postage stamp size, the 1 GB of storage. The thing stores more songs than you’ll ever listen to at one sitting and updates in a breeze. The iPod shuffle is the iPod that really encapsulates the goal of the iPod, a purposely simple but ever so useful music listening device.
On the other hand, you don’t want to pay money for one so here’s your chance to get a free shuffle. How do you win? Simple, read SpinMatters and leave a comment. Every comment on articles posted after 10/16/06 counts as an entry. If you’re registered at AppleMatters or Maccitt you are registered here. There is no subjective judgment when it comes to the comments. “This sucks” counts just as much as a carefully argued, well-supported essay. On the other hand, a really great essay will win you a lot of style points and complete strangers will think highly of you. At this point, you’re thinking: “SpinMatters how can I increase my chances of winning an iPod shuffle?” Glad you asked, err thought that. While every comment counts, comments in the form of a Haiku count double.
For example:
Politics sucks
nets you one entry.
Put it in the form of a Haiku, like so:
Politicians
Viewed without principles
It must be Tuesday
Counts as two entries. It doesn’t have to be good haiku, it just has to generally follow the 5, 7, 5 thing.
When will the winner be chosen? When the iPod ships (it is on order, engraved with the SpinMatters URL) or on October 31st (whichever comes first). So, get your game on and win an iPod!
Insert legal stuff here:
Everyone but the following people are eligible: Todd Long, Members of the Seibold family, everyone in the Apple Matters cabal.
SpinMatters decides the final winner through a random drawing and all decisions are final.
Should the winner of the iPod shuffle be unable to fulfill his or her duties a new winner capable of actually accepting a new iPod shuffle will be chosen.
The winner will also allow SpinMatters to post their name so everyone else won’t think we’re just pretending to give away stuff. In fact, a snap of the winner with the shuffle would be pretty cool.
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VP Dick Cheney
Shot a guy in the face, dude.
Iraq got it worse.
In the face he shot
Indeed that birdlike fellow
I want the shuffle.
A win/win situation
You can’t shuffle that
And you shouldn’t
Writing a poëm
in seventeen syllables
is very diffi–.
(i know that this doesn’t count as a post, but why is the american flag showing next to cork, ireland? c’mon spinmatters, you can do better than that! it works at applematters!)
Why, yes that does count as a post. As for the problem, I dunno. Spinny is a subset of AM, it uses the same database and all that so it should be exactly the same.
By the by, that haiku killed me, laugh out loud killed me. Not that all the haikus aren’t great but that particular one slaughtered me.
thanks. i particularly like the diaeresis over the e in poem, to emphasise that it’s po-em. that was a recent addition!
The iPod shuffle:
Tiny, powerful, wondrous.
A random earful.
Nano or Shuffle?
Each has its advantages.
Music to my ears.
Widescreen iPod, what?
I don’t understand your place
Give me freebies!
I wish Congressmen
Would stay home with their iPods,
And leave us alone.
Shuffle or Nano.
I’ll gladly take either one,
As long as it’s free.
I love my Nano,
A gift from my husband Mark,
Who prefers Shuffles.
What’s more addictive?
Composing silly haiku,
Or iPod playing?
Winning a Shuffle
Would be far from a trifle.
Now I must stifle.