On March 10, the first annual Symmys will be awarded for the best palindromes of 2012. Ten finalists in four categories will compete under the eye of linguists, palindromists, and celebrity judges. The forty finalist pal...

~Illustrated by: Dimitri Marshal~ God seems t...  ...end entirely way too much time helping people win awards

The fictional "Stop Childh...  ...their clients. Well, not at the Chip Shop Awards : the annual advertising award lets the...

Behold the magnificent ugliness that is Mugly, the winner of the 24th annual World's Ugliest Dog contest. Like many of the past winners, little Mugly is a Chinese hairless dog. This isn't his first win, he previously won...

The International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge from Science Magazine and the National Science Foundation award honors to the best images, illustrations, videos, games, and graphs of the past year tha...

We'll have to wait until tomorrow to see what movi...  ...2010 Razzie nominations are out. Who will win the awards for the worst movies of the year? The nominees fo...

The Boy Scouts of America has introduced an award (though not a merit badge) for video games, available to Tiger Cubs, Cub Scouts, and Webelos Scouts. After you earn the Belt Loop, here are the requirements for the Acade...

The 19th annual Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded Thurs...  ...at Sander’s Theater on the Harvard campus. The awards are given to “honor achievements that make peop...

The Oops Awards (previously at Neatorama) are given to the uglies...

The Oops Design Awards have taken it upon themselves to do something tha...