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Wink Chosen to Receive Noble Piece Prize
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."
It is a joke, but not really a joke. It is just a groovy way of acknowledging a groovy piece of work.
"That's one Noble Piece dude, someone should give you a prize for dat...hey!!"
Not only self-promotion on part of the author, but a completely irrelevant non-article and intentionally misleading to boot. I hope I'm not alone in expecting a higher standard from the slashdot editors.
Except that it is to be confused, that's why they chose that name. It's supposed to be funny.
It's not, but it's supposed to be.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Isn't this getting a little close to spamming? I mean, the app might be good, but the prize seems dodgy.
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It might have been funny if they really had some information about it. People aren't going to think it's funny just because "haha the names are similar." Why did Wink win this humorous prize, or is it all just BS?
It's a joke. A rather bad one. Definitely not worth posting on the front page of slashdot. But still, it's a joke.
If you read the description of the prize, it seems like it was created by Phil Shapiro, the submitter of the story.
So can I create my own Nebula Peas prize and give it to some random free software project, like Hebcal or something, and get it posted on the front page of Slashdot?
(No offense against Hebcal; I just picked the first nonfamous project that I saw browsing SourceForge.)
" There is no article, no such thing as a Nobel "Piece" Prize . . ."
Of course there isn't. It's the Noble Piece Prize.
As in "really great bit of work." Noble Piece. Get it?
And of course it exists, it's just been announced right here on Slashdot. With winners and everything. Yeah, Phil Shapiro made it up, but, that's how awards come to be you know. Someone just makes them up and starts handing them out.
They don't come down from the mountain engraved on stone by the hand of God or something. Someone, like maybe Alfred Nobel, just decides to give 'em out.
I have made up and awarded a number of prizes in my day mayself. They're perfectly legitimate prizes. Like the "Best Drive of the Day" trophy at my local kart track.
I'm off to make up some prizes to award to random people.
Exactly! Just like Nobel and Pulitzer did. Although awarding them at random takes some of the value out of them. I suggest you develop some real criteria first. Then they'll really mean something.
You have an "Authority Thang," don't you?
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That's just background information on the Noble Piece Prize. The article is supposed to talk about Wink being chosen to recieve the Noble Piece Prize.
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I have a karma of zero =( should have read the article. I hate my life (*blows brains out*)
as far as I'm concerned, this fake award has as much weight to it as any other award given by a foundation, hollywood, or some other society. I think it's a cool idea. Somebody decided to recognize the achievements of someone else and tried to spread it like wildfire. I'm not sure how many are in the academy whom vote for the academy awards, but I'd bet many people would vote for Wink when given the chance to see it. It really is excellent software.
In the area of tutorials, Wink is like Firefox and Openoffice are to their respective categories. those programs have gotten plenty of awards and recognition. Wink and Satish should too. it's more of a niche program, but so is the Web Developer toolbar for Firefox, but we'd award that one in a second wouldn't we?
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And this sort of thing is done on Slashdot all the time. Much more often than most here would realize.
Granted, not all of them proport to be an award....
Fair enough, but their use should be strictly licensed. They're nice on Britney lookalikes, but I've seen too many fat chavettes with their guts hanging over their waistbands.
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