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Today is the final installment of our daily trivia question that you must answer correctly in order to be qualified to win a ticket to Mad River Glen!

(The questions may range from easy to hard, from product-related to Small Dog-related, and pretty much anything in between. You may know the answer by heart, or you may have to search it out—all answers can be found somewhere on the Smalldog.com website.)

Today’s question:
Q: What were the three awards Small Dog won in 2011, according to our press releases?

To enter:
1) Comment with the correct answer below in the Barkings! blog comments section.

Please be sure to read all of the official rules and details below. Good luck!

Open to residents of US and Canada only, (1) winner per household. All answers to the daily question can be found on Smalldog.com. Comments must be posted by 11:59ET on the day of the question to qualify. Winner will be randomly chosen each day from all correct answers, and will be notified within 48 hours of daily contest completion. Winner must provide a valid email address.

Please note that Mad River Glen does not allow snowboarding.

Start Soapbox

On January 18th, there were some high-profile websites—Wikipedia among them—that actively opposed two pieces of intellectual property rights and privacy legislation by adding black banners in protest. The outcry was so effective that the legislation was, at least temporarily, blocked.

In the US Senate it was the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) and in the House it was the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). We have had a longtime belief that copyrights, patents and intellectual property need protection. There is a problem in that there is widespread illegal copying and distribution of protected content. So, on the face of things, these bills might be a good idea.

But when you look at the details of the bills, it looks like the medicine is way worse than the cure. Rather than really providing protection, the bill uses the atomic bomb approach which would require that internet service providers block access to foreign websites that are suspected of containing pirated content. This is way too intrusive and gives the government too much control over the internet.  

The internet is really the best and last bastion of free speech and innovation.  You need not look further than the revolution in Egypt to see what the impact can be of free, open access to information. This legislation would require the blocking of entire internet domains if just one blog entry or web page had infringing material. There is a real danger that this legislation would trigger an explosion of internet and search engine censorship.

Make no mistake about it—I support the protection of intellectual property and artistic creations. It is essential to ensure that innovation and art flourish; however, this legislation—PIPA and SOPA—goes too far and is not the right solution to the problem.

End Soapbox

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Time for another installment of our daily trivia question that you must answer correctly in order to be qualified to win a ticket to Mad River Glen.

The questions may range from easy to hard, from product-related to Small Dog-related, and pretty much anything in between. You may know the answer by heart, or you may have to search it out—all answers can be found somewhere on the Smalldog.com website.

Today’s question:
Q: When was our inaugural eWaste Recycling Event and where was it held?

Bonus: To be entered in tomorrow’s drawing as well, tell us how many tons we recycled that year!

To enter:
1) Comment on the daily question with the correct answer in the Barkings! blog comments section.

Please be sure to read all of the official rules and details below. Look for the next contest question tomorrow morning!

Open to residents of US and Canada only, (1) winner per household. All answers to the daily question can be found on Smalldog.com. Comments must be posted by 11:59ET on the day of the question to qualify. Winner will be randomly chosen each day from all correct answers, and will be notified within 48 hours of daily contest completion. Winner must provide a valid email address.

Please note that Mad River Glen does not allow snowboarding.

For the next several days, we’ll be asking a question a day that you must answer correctly in order to be qualified to win a ticket to Mad River Glen.

The questions may range from easy to hard, from product-related to Small Dog-related, and pretty much anything in between. You may know the answer by heart, or you may have to search it out—all answers can be found somewhere on the Smalldog.com website.

Today’s question:
Q: How many current Mac “families” of computers are there and what are they?

To enter:
1) Comment on the daily question with the correct answer in the Barkings! blog comments section.

Please be sure to read all of the official rules and details below. Look for the next contest question tomorrow morning!

Open to residents of US and Canada only, (1) winner per household. All answers to the daily question can be found on Smalldog.com. Comments must be posted by 11:59ET on the day of the question to qualify. Winner will be randomly chosen each day from all correct answers, and will be notified within 48 hours of daily contest completion. Winner must provide a valid email address.

Please note that Mad River Glen does not allow snowboarding.

“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” is prominently displayed on the side of an Airbus A320 in Virgin America’s fleet, paying homage to Steve Jobs’ famous quote. Virgin America is the only airline based in Silicon Valley, and a representative of the company explained that the name was chosen “as part of an internal plane naming competition.”

In his oft-mentioned landmark commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, Jobs cited that the phrase was originally used, to his knowledge, in The Whole Earth Catalog in the 1970s, describing it thusly:

“When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation….It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along. It was idealistic and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.”

He went on to say in his address that day, that “I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.”

via MacRumors