The 404 655: Where you follow @the404 and retweet to win (podcast)
The 404 Podcast and JetBlue Airlines are giving away two All You Can Jet passes to two lucky winners! Follow @the404 and retweet the first message to enter!
Ep. 655: Where you follow @the404 and retweet to win
Honestly, we didn't expect Jeff to show up for work this morning after his weekend excursion to Montreal for his bachelor's party, but he's back and divulging zero details about what happened abroad, because that conversation is better suited to giggling whispers in private cubicles.
For now, let's just assume that Jeff had a delightful time skipping across the city and supporting local hole-in-the-wall establishments with a handful of his closest friends.
Without our listeners (yes, you!), The 404 would be nothing but three semi-educated post-adolescents shouting into a box, so to show our appreciation we're throwing a contest with JetBlue Airlines to fly you anywhere in the U.S. and Caribbean for a week! Yep, the grand prize is a seven-day unlimited All You Can Jet pass to feed your wanderlust anywhere on JetBlue's map, and another lucky winner will receive a complimentary five-day pass for the same deal!
Two winners will be chosen at random and here's how to enter: simply follow The 404 Podcast on Twitter, retweet the phrase "Follow @the404 and RT this for a chance to win 1 of 2 #AllYouCanJet @JetBlue passes. Rules: http://bit.ly/dodRKs #AYCJ" and you're done!
The contest is over on Tuesday, August 31, at 3 p.m. ET and winners will be announced by 5 p.m. ET, so hurry for your chance to win one of these two amazing prices, courtesy of our friends at JetBlue!
After some serious contest pimping, we're dropping two big announcements about our favorite movie "Back To the Future." As if the idea of a modern remake of the film wasn't bad enough, it turns out that no one's favorite tween pop star Justin Bieber is rumored to play Marty Mcfly. *Pause for "Noooooos"* The child star has yet to comment on the horrific gossip, so keep your fingers crossed.
Now for some good news: the wait is finally over, and BTTF fans might finally get the chance to don Marty's famous Nike "powerlaces" sneakers, thanks to a patent from Tinker Hatfield and the dudes at the Nike Innovative Kitchen.
The initial blueprint of the shoes look nearly identical to the '80s-style super high-top in the film, replete with the parallel lacing and a separate charging system below. While you're there, be sure to check out NiceKicks' brief history of Nike's BTTF-inspired shoes!
Good luck to everyone entering the Jet Blue All You Can Jet Giveaway!
Episode 655
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JetBlue
All You Can Jet Giveaway
Official Sweepstakes Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. MUST BE LEGAL RESIDENT OF
ONE OF THE 50 UNITED STATES OR D.C., 18 YEARS OF AGE OR AGE OF MAJORITY IN
THEIR STATE OF RESIDENCE OR OLDER AT DATE OF ENTRY INTO THE SWEEPSTAKES AND A
REGISTERED USER OF TWITTER. VOID IN PUERTO RICO, ALL U.S. TERRORTORIES AND
POSSESSIONS AND WHERE PROHIBITIED BY LAW.
Prize Provider: JetBlue Airways, 118-29 Queens Blvd., Forest
Hills, NY 11375
Sweepstakes Entities: CBS Interactive Inc. ("CBSI"??) & JetBlue Airways.
1. Acceptance of Rules. By entering the JetBlue
All You Can Jet Giveaway (the "Sweepstakes") operated on
the @the404 page at the Twitter web site accessible at the domain
"twitter.
@the404.com " (the "CNET Service"), you hereby accept and agree to these
official rules (the "Official
Rules") of this Sweepstakes, and the decisions of the Administrator
in connection with this Sweepstakes, whose decisions are final.
2. Eligibility. This Sweepstakes is offered and open to
persons who are: (a) Registered Users of Twitter (as defined below); (b) legal
residents of one (1) of the fifty (50) United States or District of Columbia;
and (c) at least 18 years of age or older or older or age of majority in their
state of residence at the date of entry in this Sweepstakes. For purposes of
these Official Rules, Registered
User(s) means a person that has successfully completed the
registration form and has obtained a User Identification ("ID") and
associated password ("Password")
on the Twitter Website. Employees and directors, and their immediate family
members, of the Sweepstakes Entities, and their parents, affiliated and
subsidiary companies, advertising and promotion agencies and legal and
financial advisors are not eligible to participate in this Sweepstakes. For
purpose of the foregoing "immediate
family" means parents, spouses, children, siblings or any
members of the same households of such employees and directors. This Sweepstakes
is void outside of the 50 U.S., in Puerto Rico, all US territories and
possessions and where prohibited by law.
3. Promotion Period. The Sweepstakes begins on August 30, 2010 at 11:00:00
a.m. PT and ends at 2:59:59 p.m. PT on August 31, 2010 (the "Promotion Period").
4. Entering the Sweepstakes. To enter this Sweepstakes register into the
CNET Service, sign into the CNET 404 podcast area of the service and "tweet" the required phrase and you will receive an entry into the Sweepstakes. Limit
one comment/entry per person during the Promotion Period.
If you
are not a Registered User you may become a Registered User and obtain an ID and
Password by completing the registration form on the CNET Service. There is no
fee or charge to become a Registered User.
5. Prizes/Winners. Grand Prize: Grand prize consist of the AYCJ-7 pass
which is valid for travel 7 days a week, from and to any airport serviced by
JetBlue. Approximate Retail Value (ARV) of Six Hundred Ninety-Nine Dollars
($699.00). The First prize consists of a AYCJ-5 pass which is valid for travel
5 days a week, from and to any airport serviced by JetBlue (excluding Fridays
and Sundays). ARV is Four Hundred Ninety-Nine Dollars ($499.00).
All air travel arrangements must be completed through JetBlue. Certain
restrictions may apply and will be furnished with the prizes. Total ARV of all prizes to be awarded is One
Thousand One Hundred and Ninety-Eight Dollars ($1198.00).
Limit one prize per person and/or household.
6. Prize Restrictions. No assignment, transfer, conversion to
cash or cash redemption or substitution of the Prize is permitted, except
Administrator reserves the right to substitute the Prize with a prize of
comparable or greater value should the Prize become unavailable. Prize is
solely for personal use and may not be used in conjunction with any other
promotion. All prize details are
at the sole discretion of the Sweepstakes Entities.
7. Odds/Drawings/Winner Notification. Odds of
winning the Prize depend on the number of eligible Entries received during the
Promotion Period. Drawings will be
conducted by Administrator on or about 5:00 PM ET on August 31, 2010. Administration
will award the Prizes and confirm the Winners. Administrator's decisions are
final and binding in all respects. Potential Winners will be notified by email,
Twitter message and/or by phone. If a potential Winner cannot be reached after
a reasonable effort has been made during (5) business days from the first
notification attempt, such person may be disqualified, with an alternate Winner
selected in accordance with these Official Rules.
8. Prize Taxes. All federal, state, and local and other tax liabilities
arising from this Sweepstakes, including, without limitation, winning a Prize,
will be the sole responsibility of each Winner.
9. Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release and
Publicity Release. A Winner may be required to complete, execute and return an
Affidavit of Eligibility/Liability Release, and where lawful, a Publicity
Release (collectively, the "Release
Forms") within five (5) days of notification of winning. Failure
to return Release Forms timely, or if Prize notification or the Prize is
returned as non-deliverable, or if a Winner is found not to be eligible or not
in compliance with these Official Rules, may result in disqualification with an
alternate Winner selected in accordance with these Official Rules.
10. Publicity Release Terms. Except where
prohibited by law, a Winner's acceptance of a Prize constitutes permission for
the Sweepstakes Entities to use Winner's name, photograph, likeness,
statements, blog entry, biographical information, voice, and address (city and
state) worldwide and in all forms of media, in perpetuity, without further
compensation.
11. Improper Conduct. Administrator, in its sole
discretion, may disqualify any entrant from participation in or use of any or
all portions of this Sweepstakes, and refuse to award a Prize, if entrant
engages in any conduct Administrator deems to be improper, unfair or otherwise
adverse to the operation of the Sweepstakes or detrimental to other entrants of
the Sweepstakes. Such improper conduct includes, without limitation, falsifying
personal information required during entrant registration or Prize claim,
violating any term or condition stated herein, accumulating entries through
methods such as automated computer scripts or any other programming techniques,
allowing others to use entrant's personal information for the purpose of
accumulating entries, or intentionally trying to defraud, reverse engineer,
disassemble or otherwise tamper with the computer programs in connection with
this Sweepstakes. Entrants agree that Administrator may void any part of a
Prize that entrant may have won and/or require the return of any part of a
Prize that entrant may have won as a result of such improper conduct. Entrant
further acknowledges that any forfeiture of a Prize and/or return of a Prize
shall in no way prevent Administrator from pursuing other avenues of recourse
such as criminal or civil proceedings in connection with such conduct. WARNING:
ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF
THIS SWEEPSTAKES MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH
AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, EACH OF THE SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK
DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH ATTEMPT
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
12. Integrity of Sweepstakes. If, for any reason,
the Sweepstakes is not capable of running as planned by reason of infection by
computer virus, worms, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud,
technical failures, or any other causes which Administrator, in its sole
opinion believes could corrupt or affect the administration, security,
fairness, integrity or proper conduct of this Sweepstakes, Administrator
reserves the right at its sole discretion to cancel, terminate, modify or
suspend this Sweepstakes and select the Winners from entries received prior to
the action taken or in such other manner as Administrator may deem fair and
appropriate.
13. Lost or Corrupted Entries. The Sweepstakes
Entities, and their parents, affiliated and subsidiary companies and
advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible
for, and you hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with,
lost, late, incomplete, corrupted, stolen, misdirected, illegible or postage
due entries or mail, if applicable; or for any computer, telephone, cable,
network, satellite, electronic or Internet hardware or software malfunctions,
unauthorized human intervention, or the incorrect or inaccurate capture of
entry or other information, or the failure to capture any such information. The
Sweepstakes Entities, and their parents, affiliated and subsidiary companies,
advertising and promotion agencies, are not responsible for any incorrect or
inaccurate information, whether caused by registration information submitted by
end users or tampering, hacking, or by any of the equipment or programming
associated with or utilized in this Sweepstakes, and assumes no responsibility
for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or
transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized
access to the Sweepstakes.
14. Damaged Property. Sweepstakes Entities, and
their parents, affiliated and subsidiary companies and advertising and
promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you
hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, injury or
damage to any entrants or to any other person's computer or property related to
or resulting from participating in this Sweepstakes or downloading materials
from this Sweepstakes.
15. Sweepstakes Errors. The Sweepstakes Entities,
and their parents, affiliated and subsidiary companies and advertising and
promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible for, and you
hereby forever waive any rights to any claim in connection with, errors and/or
ambiguity: (a) in the Sweepstakes; (b) in any related advertising or promotions
of this Sweepstakes; and/or (c) in these Official Rules. In the event of any
ambiguity(s) or error(s) in these Official Rules, Administrator reserves the
right to modify these Official Rules for clarification purposes or to correct
any such ambiguity or error(s) without materially affecting the terms and
conditions of the Sweepstakes.
16. Prizes and Prize Winners. The Sweepstakes
Entities, and their parents, affiliated and subsidiary companies and
advertising and promotion agencies, assume no liability and are not responsible
for, and you/entrant hereby forever waive/s any rights to any claim in
connection with, the selection and announcement of a Prize Winner, the
distribution of a Prize, the acceptance/possession and/or use/misuse of any
part of a Prize and/or any injury or damage to any entrant's or third person's
property related to or resulting from any part of a Prize or any part of this
Sweepstakes.
17. Release and Indemnity. Each entrant in this
Sweepstakes, including, without limitation, a Prize Winner, hereby releases and
agrees to hold harmless the Sweepstakes Entities and their parents, affiliates,
subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies and their respective
directors, officers, employees, representatives and agents from any and all
liability for any injuries, loss or damage of any kind to person, including
death, and property, arising in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from
acceptance, possession, use or misuse of a Prize, participation in this
Sweepstakes and participation in any activity related to this Sweepstakes.
18. Limitation of Liability. IN NO EVENT WILL THE
SWEEPSTAKES ENTITIES, THEIR PARENTS, AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES AND RELATED
COMPANIES, THEIR ADVERTISING OR PROMOTION AGENCIES OR THEIR RESPECTIVE
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES AND AGENTS, BE RESPONSIBLE OR
LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT,
INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO AND
USE OF THE SWEEPSTAKES OR THE DOWNLOADING FROM AND/OR PRINTING MATERIAL
DOWNLOADED FROM THE SWEEPSTAKES. SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE
LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
OR EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR
EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LAWS FOR ANY RESTRICTIONS OR
LIMITATIONS REGARDING THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS.
19. Disclaimer of Warranties. THE SWEEPSTAKES AND
PRIZES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
20. Identity Disputes. In the event of a dispute as
to the identity of a winner based on an email address, the winning entry will
be declared made by the Authorized Account Holder of the email address and/or
phone number submitted at time of registration into Twitter and entry into the
Sweepstakes. For purposes of these Official Rules, "Authorized Account Holder" is defined as the natural person
who is assigned to an email address by an Internet access provider, online
service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational,
institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the
domain associated with the submitted email address.
21. Binding Arbitration. The parties waive all
rights to trial in any action or proceeding instituted in connection with these
Official Rules and/or this Sweepstakes. Any controversy or claim arising out of
or relating to these Official Rules and/or this Sweepstakes shall be settled by
binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the
American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be
arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any
arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration
shall be conducted in the State of New York, in the City of New York and
judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having
jurisdiction thereof.
22. Governing Law and Jurisdiction. This promotion
is governed by US law and is subject to all applicable federal, state and local
laws and regulations. Void where prohibited by law. All issues and questions
concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of
these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of entrant and
Administrator in connection with this Sweepstakes, shall be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, U.S.A.,
without giving effect to the conflict of laws rules thereof, and any matters or
proceedings which are not subject to arbitration as set forth in Section 21 of
these Official Rules and/or for entering any judgment on an arbitration award,
shall take place in the State of New York, in the City of New York.
23. Winner List/Official Rules. For the name of the
Prize Winners send a self-addresses stamped envelope for receipt by September
30, 2010 to Winner's list, JetBlue All You Can
Jet Giveaway , c/o CBS
Interactive Inc. 1401 W. Cypress Creek Road, Suite 200, Fort Lauderdale, FL
33309. For Official Rules send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the above
address marked "Official Rules: JetBlue
All You Can Jet Giveaway for receipt by September 6, 2010. The full name of the Prize Winners may
be posted and the Official Rules will be posted on www.cnet.com.
