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Ever think you just can’t keep up with all the new technologies, scripts, applications, etc.? Truck loads of reading on the “new” best practices? You work all day, most the night, and on weekends. You’re spouse is ready to kill you, but, like being hooked on a very powerful drug, you just can’t stop… Ahhhh. I could go on, but I am sure a lot of you know where I am coming from.

Ahem, anyway, to my point. Macromedia just recently launched Flash 8 with a boat-load of new ActionScript features that are very exciting. I am torn between my daily PHP, CSS, HTML, SQL duties, contemplating getting into Rails, reading another chapter of my Flash Math Creativity book and staying up late learning the new Flash stuff and then Macromedia deals the final blow. This looks totally amazing and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

I am gonna OD for sure and self combust. Nighty night.

Have you ever gone to see a movie that is nothing like the trailer?

It managed to sneak past me for a few days, but my recent interview with Jeremy Keith has made its way into the latest issue of Digital Web Magazine. In the interview we cover the impetus behind his new book, WaSP’s DOM Scripting Task Force, and Jeremy’s future as a rockstar.

On a somewhat tangential note, if you’re interested in competing at the SXSW Web Awards in March, I recommend getting your entires in soon. If you enter by Friday (October 14th), you only have to pay $10 per category which is too cheap to miss out on. If you attend, you’ll get more of Jeremy & me on “How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting.”

I’ve had a few interesting things come through my inbox of late and I thought I would share them with you:

• The CT Forum will be hosting A Conversation… Thomas Friedman & Malcolm Gladwell on 6 April 2006 in Hartford, CT. This should be pretty interesting to witness as Gladwell’s Tipping Point and blink. have been incredibly influential in the business world and Fiedman’s The World is Flat is also starting to make some heads turn. Not sure if I am going yet or not, but it looks to be pretty cool.
• For those of you looking for socially responsible places to donate money for victims of Katrina, Radical Reference has compiled a great list for your reference.
• I’m a little late on this one, but today is the deadline for applications to intern at the League of Young/Independent/Pissed Off Voters. There are a ton of positions availble in New York City for the fall. This is a great organization and I highly recommend hooking up with them if politics is your bag. To apply, send a statement of interest and any relevant resume to erubinstein@indyvoter.org with “INTERNSHIP” in the subject line.