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Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony Tonight

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looking-at-it dept.

Ellen Spertus writes "The Eleventh First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony will be held in Cambridge, MA, on Thursday, Oct. 4, to honor scientific achievements that cannot, or should not, be reproduced. The ceremony, which will be webcast live and broadcast later on Science Friday, is sponsored by The Annals of Improbable Research. The accompanying Ig Informal Lectures will be held Saturday, Oct. 6, at MIT."

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  1. The 2000 Ig Nobel Prize Winners by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Loved those winners of 2000:
    CHEMISTRY
    "Romantic love may be indistinguishable from having severe obsessive-compulsive disorder."

    COMPUTER SCIENCE
    "Detecting when a cat is walking across your computer keyboard."

    Of course I always knew the first one, so it's quite useful to tell people who are "in love", dunno about the later.

  2. Re:Similar prize for software? (Most Bugs?) by vAMP · · Score: 3, Funny

    But thats not fair!
    How can anyone compete with Microsoft???
    :)

  3. ObJoke by imipak · · Score: 5, Funny
    scientific achievements that cannot, or should not, be reproduced.

    I nominate:

    • Windows XP
    • Microsoft Mediaplayer
    • MS SQL Server
    • Last year's winner: IIS, up for a record four years in a row!
    1. Re:ObJoke by Lonesmurf · · Score: 3, Funny

      Just wondered why you put windows 9x in the OS/platforms section of your resume twice. You particularly proud of it of something? :)

      I'd change that before showing it around, man.

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    2. Re:ObJoke by stephend · · Score: 2, Funny

      Last year's winner: IIS, up for a record four years in a row!

      That's the first and last time that any Microsoft software has been up for over a year.

  4. And the winner is... by Domini · · Score: 3, Funny


    ... for most versatile hybrid polymorphic y-chromosome based genome string :

    Once again: Cowboy Neal!

  5. Cat typing detector? I want one! by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I need to stop my damn cat from making all these "first post" posts! Yes, now you know where they come from.

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  6. Truth in advertising by streetlawyer · · Score: 3, Funny
    I object in the strongest possible terms to the idea that this painfully self-conscious attempt at proving that "Scientists aren't all dull" should appear under the category "It's Funny, Laugh", and demand that Slashdot establishes an "It's Embarrassing. Cringe" category for the purpose.



    Oh yeh, and the Darwin Awards can fuck off too.

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