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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 is great by havaloc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All joking beside (peace/piece), Wink is a great utility and is a must download. It's great for creating tutorials on how to do things on computers.

  2. I could have sworn this was a dupe... by antispam_ben · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "New Awards To Compete With Nobel Prizes"
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/0 3/1712250
    Are these two stories, Nobel Prizes/Noble Piece Prize, appearing the same day a coincidence? I think not.

    The Biggest Lie Of Science:
    "The Piece Prize will be waiting for you backstage after you give your conference paper."

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  3. Re:This sounds fishy to me too. by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Specially with their reference to the word "dynamite" (Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite).

  4. Re:Nobel Prize is a JOKE!!! by LK01 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    This..lunatic claims the AIDs virus was engineered for the sole purpose of destroying the black race.

    That particular claim (if it really has been made) is a bit steep but there is a credible theory which claims that AIDS originated from polio vaccines.

    The oral polio vaccine theory IMO explains quite a lot and also has evidence to back its claims. It's not just for the tinfoil hat crowd.

    More here: Origins of Aids

    "The second theory, the "oral polio vaccine" or "OPV" theory, has it that AIDS began after an experimental OPV that had been cultured in chimpanzee cells was given to nearly a million Africans from the Congo (DRC), Burundi and Rwanda in the latter half of the 1950s. This hypothesis is highly controversial, and is rejected by many medical scientists, (including those who prepared and administered the vaccine). There is concerted opposition to the theory from those who publish and write in Nature and Science, the world's two leading scientific journals. However, despite the fact that many of the aforesaid scientists deny it, this is the theory that is supported by most of the available historical and scientific evidence."

    Maybe a bit off-topic but interesting and maybe important as well.