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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. Re:I don't believe it by Golias · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. What the heck? by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.)

    1. Re:What the heck? by Devoid+Josh · · Score: 5, Insightful

      An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. -- Adlai Stevenson

      Dont you just love the quotes at the bottom of the article? I know I do.

  3. Re:What kind of bollocks is this? by kfg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    " 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?

    KFG