Tag: AWARDS

The list of nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize includes plenty of individuals and organizations that probably deserve the award, along with two curious candidates that will almost certainly hog all of the media's attention: WikiLeaks and the Internet. This year's field features a whopping 241 nominees, breaking the record of 237 set just last year. Notable candidates include former ...

Oscar nominations were officially doled out this morning, and, as expected, 'The Social Network' picked up plenty of them -- eight, to be exact, including one in the vaunted Best Picture category. Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earned him a nomination for Best Actor, David Fincher is in the running for Best Director, and Aaron Sorkin earned a nod for his original ...

Let Zuck have his Person of the Year award, because Stephen Colbert just earned a more prestigious honor: the most retweeted man of the year. The tweet in question ("In honor of oil-soaked birds, 'tweets' are now 'gurgles.' http://bit.ly/cIhZNf") was linked to Comedy Central's 'Address the Mess' coverage, and retweeted over 44,000 times. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone presented a trophy to the ...

The latest testament to the increased sophistication of video games is also a sign that the Grammys may have too many categories. Christopher Tin's "Baba Yetu," better known as the musical theme of 'Civilization IV,' has been nominated in the Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists category. Despite the fact that "Baba Yetu" was released five years ago, Tin's composition, which is a ...

This year's IgNobel Prize winners, as always, came up with ingenious ways to do really zany things. This year's winner in the physics category, for example, discovered that people who wear socks on the outsides of their shoes are less likely to fall while walking on ice. Another researcher earned the vaunted prize for his straight-to-DVD research on fruit bat fellatio. Perhaps the weirdest ...

It's rare that a pitcher achieves a perfect game, where no opposing batter reaches base or scores. And since realism is the focus in sports video games these days, developer 2K Sports figured the feat would be just as tough to accomplish in its new 'Major League Baseball 2K10' game. That's why it offered a prize of $1 million to any gamer who could "throw" a perfect game between the game's March ...

The Webbys are where viral video creators and Web entrepreneurs get to rub elbows with the likes of Al Gore and Isabella Rossellini. The winners of the 2010 Webby Awards, which will be held on June 14th, have already been announced, and we can't say we're surprised by many of the choices. Roger Ebert will be receiving an award for "raising the bar for online journalism," and the committee ...

They might not have as high a profile as the Oscars, but Britain's first annual Google Street View Awards ceremony was held Monday. The Telegraph reports a panel of U.K. experts, selected by Google, and about 11,000 online participants voted a cobblestone road in York, called The Shambles, "Britain's Most Picturesque Street." "It has been the backdrop for many a jigsaw, chocolate box and railway ...

Share If you thought people were upset last year when President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, just wait and see what happens if one of this year's nominees wins. Yes, nominees include the requisite European human rights group and the obligatory Asian political activist. But, according to the Associated Press, the Internet has also made the short list of nominees. That's right, the ...

So, how do you know if the press loves your video game? Well, one way would be to see if Guinness decides it's the "Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever." Such has the case for 'Batman: Arkham Asylum,' released last week on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It's a rather unscientific poll, obviously. Review scores are themselves a problematic and imprecise thing, and aggregating them only ...

For quite some time, if you Googled "Greatest Living American" and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" you'd be redirected to faux-pundit Stephen Colbert's page. Colbert achieved that status thanks to asking his legion of fans to "Google Bomb" his name with that term, posting it everywhere possible to increase his ratings. He no longer has that honor, thanks to another would-be who is bribing people with ...

Ahh, the iPhone. Winner of hearts, creator of long lines, and possible media brainwasher. If you don't believe that last point, take a look a this: 'Time Magazine' has made the iPhone its "Invention Of The Year". 'Time' claimed its number one reason for selecting the iconic touch-screen mobile was because "it's pretty," despite the iPhone really being nothing more than a muted black slab with a ...

The 11th annual Webby Awards were recently handed out in New York City, providing pats on the backs in more than 100 categories to the very best productions on the Web. This year's winners ran the gamut from eBay and YouTube to David Bowie and the Beastie Boys. In a nice break from traditional award ceremony orations, it's mandated that Webby acceptance speeches be mercifully short -- limited to ...