The Element site launched last Friday, complete with Quicktime clips and photo galleries for each rider (including the ams), a catalog of product and a
frequently updated section they call Current. http://www.elementskateboards.com
411 Video Productions is sending two lucky kids to the Visalia YMCA
Skatecamp this summer. If you're under 17, all you have to do is send them a 3 minute or less videotape of you and/or your friends skateboarding or
performing skateboarding related skits to enter. The best videos will be shown on their web site and the makers of those videos will be sent to camp FOR FREE!
Pick up the full details and entry form at 411vm.com.
411's Best of 7 just got released on DVD, Bam Margera's first video, CKY, has just been re-released on VHS through 411VP and Issue 46 of 411 Video
magazine just came out this week. You can check out the cts and quicktime clips from these videos and purchase them all online at 411vm.com
The Black Label Video, LABEL KILLS, is due to be released very soon.
It premiered this last weekend May 27th @ La Paloma Theater in Encinitas.
Jahmal Williams just signed with a new board sponsor, DNA.
Matt Beach is on tour with Jon Humphries who will be submitting photos of the trip to Transworld.
Paulo Diaz is visiting Quim Cardona in New Jersey. The two are gathering video footage of themselves skating.
Cancer Rates Are Falling, Study Says
Death rates and cases declined for prostate, lung and colon cancers in the 1990s, but more breast cancer was detected, a study says. Details
Ohio to Begin Shots Against Meningitis
The state Health Department has decided to vaccinate up to 5,800 high school students to protect them from a meningitis-related outbreak that has killed two
teen-agers and left a third seriously ill. Details
3 Fake Drugs Found in Pharmacies
The FDA is investigating four cases of counterfeit prescription drugs making their way to pharmacy shelves, and, in some cases, being given to patients. Details
Study: Low Hormone Doses Effective
A major study funded by the top seller of a hormone therapy for menopause finds low doses of estr
[Sunday, May 20, 2001]
There will be a version of the flash player for the sony playstation 2. Read macromedia pressrelease.
[Tuesday, April 10, 2001]
There's a new free data source extension for a generator which allows you to use xml data to feed flash. Visit macromedia exchange.
A new (free) Generator 2 (Release 3) maintenance release is available at macromedia. The following bugs have been fixed: Allow the insert MP3 object to stream MP3s; Fixed the Macromedia Flash 5 ActionScript execution error when certain looping ActionScript code passed through Generator; Enabled the Table Object to display an odd number of items; Negative Chart values now displayed correctly in a bar or stacked bar chart. New features: The List object supports Scale to Fit; New Set Color Command; New Parameters: pngBitDepth, defaultsize, bgcolor, exactfit. You need to reinstall generator for these fixes. Open download page.
Macromedia set up a "rich media advertising" section on their site. You can find an "ad tracking kit" for flash which offers support for leading ad networks like DoubleClick, Engage, L90, TargetNet and 24/7Media. Visit the site.
[Tuesday, March 27, 2001]
There's a new 3d and animation package with to flash export capabilities. Read the about.com article or visit the software developers site.
[Monday, March 26, 2001]
There's a flash usability contest held by macromedia. Read the MM press release for details.
[Saturday, February 24, 2001]
Macromedia released a pocket pc version of flash player. This offers several new opportunities to flash developers. Read the pressrelease.
A new virus -- a variant of the Love Letter VBScript worm that made its way around the world a little more than a year ago -- has turned up on the Net, luring recipients of the e-mail that delivers it to open it with promises of nude photos of Jennifer Lopez.
The offer of photo to trick recipients into launching a virus is not new. Dutch hacker OnTheFly used the same technique to trick people around the world into opening the Anna Kournikova virus earlier this year.
This version -- dubbed alternately JENNIFERLOPEZ_NAKED.JPG.vbs, VBS.Loveletter.CM@mm or VBS.Lopez.a@mm -- packs an even more destructive payload than the original LoveLetter, because in addition to destroying multimedia files, it delivers and executes yet another virus: W95/CIH, also known as Chernobyl.
"The payload delivered by JenniferLopez-Naked consists of searching for and overwriting code on specific files found on the hard disk," said Panda Software, which Friday gave the virus its highest risk, distribution and damage threat levels. "Affected files will lose their content and the VBS extension will be added at the end. If the worm finds MP3 or MP2 files, it creates a copy of the original file, which remains hidden. These files will also be overwritten with the worm code and the VBS extension will be added to them.
elves skating.
The entire universe is going XML. Everywhere you turn, somebody is turning something into XML. This is, as Ms. Stewart is wont to say, "A good thing."
The beauty of XML is it provides a whole new way of structuring "stuff" that goes beyond just organizing data. With XML, data is imbued with meaning and purpose . . . wait a minute, that implicitly makes it information. Cool.
Today, we'll look at one of the latest and most promising applications of XML - Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
SVG is currently a W3C Candidate Recommendation (see www.w3.org/TR/SVG/) under the name "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification" and dated Nov. 2, 2000. The abstract of the specification summarizes SVG as "a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML."
Sounds pretty dry, doesn't it? In fact, SVG is terribly exciting if you're inclined toward trying whiz-bang graphics on the Web. If you're not, SVG is cool anyway.
The reason for such coolness is what SVG can do. Quoting the W3C specification: "SVG allows for three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes (e.g., paths consisting of straight lines and curves), images and text. Graphical objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composited into previously rendered objects. The feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects and template objects. SVG drawings can be interactive and dynamic. Animations can be defined and triggered declaratively (that is, by embedding SVG animation elements in SVG content) or via scripting."