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Wink Chosen to Receive Noble Piece Prize

Posted by timothy on from the aptly-named dept.

Phil Shapiro writes "Wink, a beautifully written free program for creating Flash-format animated tutorials has been chosen to receive a Noble Piece Prize, the prize that honors the craftsmanship of Alfred Noble, who worked at the Jacquard Loom factory in France. Previous winners of this prize include the Digital Bicycle web site."

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  1. Wink, Wink by Vombatus · · Score: 5, Funny
    Nudge, nudge

    Say no more, say no more

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  2. FFP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    First Flash Post

  3. Noble Piece Prize? by Vombatus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely this will infringe the trademark of the Nobel Peace Prize

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  4. There's no way this is true... by pdevor · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...oh wait... The Piece Prize... Wow. It occurs to me that it is a highly humorous name for a prize. I am unable to contain myself. Really!

    1. Re:There's no way this is true... by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

      "..oh wait... The Piece Prize... Wow. It occurs to me that it is a highly humorous name for a prize. I am unable to contain myself. Really!"

      Why do I have the feeling that this story was posted simply to watch the spelling nazis make asses out of themselves?

      Anybody want some popcorn?

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    2. Re:There's no way this is true... by pdevor · · Score: 2, Funny
      Why do I have the feeling that this story was posted simply to watch the spelling nazis make asses out of themselves?
      Because it's true :-).
    3. Re:There's no way this is true... by pdevor · · Score: 2, Funny
      some people don't bother reading the comments even after the story has been up for a while.
      What else is there but the comments? Surely you're not implying that there exist people who read the articles?
  5. I wouldn't be suprised if this Alfred was at... by jpardey · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... This wikipedia page

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  6. I nominiate by cove209 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I nominate the guy that invented shirts for chicks that show off their belly's. Now THAT is worth an award.

    1. Re:I nominiate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      McDonalds?

    2. Re:I nominiate by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Funny
      Y'all better watch it, or I'll get Tammy Faye to sit on your face. You'll be prayin' a might hard then, boy! That'll put the fear of God in you. Yessirree!

      And them wimen, t'weren't no hookers. No siree. They was just ministering to my needs. And if you done seen Tammy Faye, you KNOW that, truthfully, I can say that I am truly grateful for the bounciful, I mean bootyful, I mean, ... never you mind!

      You KNOW the good book done say its a sin to sleep with a beast! That's why I done what I did. That's why the good lord sent those wimen to me. To save me!

      And that wasn't no demon rum, no siree. That was rhumitiz med'cine. Just like granny. You never seed the Beverly Hillbillies? You so dumb, I swear.

      And those porno magazines, they weren't mine. They done belonged to the cars' previous owner. I kept them so I could return them, as was my christian duty. I looked through them over and over to find if whoever had them before done left their name in it, over and over, and over and over, and over and ... well, you never mind! Sinner! You stop that tempting me. And stay of that there intarweb. It's a tool of the devil. And stop reading my email with Jeff Gannon! I'll tell ma, that's what I'll do!

  7. Re:The What Prize? by datadriven · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Piece prize", maybe next year they'll get the whole thing

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  8. I hope to sum up the reaction from all non-posters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...

  9. Re:What kind of bollocks is this? by datafr0g · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you will excuse me, I'm off to make up some prizes to award to random people.

    So you're the one responsible for the MTV Awards!!

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  10. Re:No reference? by SYFer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pointless? I think not. In fact, I've just granted this story the first ever "SYFer No Bell Prize." I'll get a press release out RSN and I'll look forward to reading about it in Slashdot next month (maybe twice).

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  11. Re:The What Prize? by TummyX · · Score: 4, Funny

    More likley it's a paid-for ad.

    Shameless

  12. Re:What kind of bollocks is this? by raehl · · Score: 2, Funny

    even a woman in a gorilla suit.

    As it turns out, it was actually a 43 year old married man in a gorilla suit pretending to be an 18-year old bisexual woman in a gorilla suit.

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  13. Re:wink is great by vrai · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only there was some way of distributing software that allowed the end-user to build it for their machine; whatever the architecture may be. Clearly America must focus the minds of its finest Computer Scientists on solving this, apparently insurmountable, problem.

  14. Re:The What Prize? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that's right - and the only way to stop this terrible conspiracy is to make sure you protect your brains from their rays with tin foil.

    It's probably already too late - you're one of them!