Contests, Races and Other Competitions
xTREME Accounting
From the Associated Press:
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A five-member team of students from Providence College has placed first in a national accounting competition.
The team came ahead of four others at the xTREME Accounting competition this month in New York City. The Providence College team is known as "The Consolidators" and includes one student from North Scituate, R.I., three from Massachusetts and one from New York.
Patrick Kelly, head of the accounting department, said the victory was like the college's basketball team winning the national championship.
The other schools competing were the University of California, Berkley; the University of Texas; the University of Washington; and Villanova University.
Providence College competed in the finals in 2009.
Go, Rhode Island! Brutal, bloody, pencil-to-pencil, spreadsheet-to-spreadsheet gridiron victory!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 22, 2012 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters
Turner Prize Winner Improvement?
The signature work of past winner Tracey Emin.
The signature work of this year's winner, Martin Boyce.
Full report here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 05, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art
World Porridge-making Championship
The video is from last year. Meet the 2011 winner here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 10, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, Europe
World Record Bikini Parade
Thank god for the Aussies!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 06, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Fashion, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits, Women, Australia
Unicornhole
"Unicornhole" \\\\//////// from dax norman on Vimeo.
This is Wacky Races for peyote users.
The website of the artist.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 30, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Surrealism, Cartoons, Psychedelic, Cars
The Pillow Fight League
More info here.
Thanks to Sandy Pearlman!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 20, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Reader Recommendation, Interior Decorating, Women
Verne Soules
Full patent here as PDF.
A mention of his death in 1948.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 29, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Technology, 1930s, 1940s
Camel or Horse?
One of these things is not like the other. The more exotic moves come past the halfway mark.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 28, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Europe, Middle East
Sign Up for Space!
I thought this was a fitting item for the first day of the post-Space Shuttle era.
I wonder if the Hayden Planetarium kept these applications from 1952 on file down to the present?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 22, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, 1950s
Canoodle
Canoodle from Shaun Young on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 02, 2011 -
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Category: Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, Humor, Movies
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