Whoa.. What was that sound? It sounded like.. well, hmmm, yes, it did. It sounded like collective screaming of the hands getting bitten by Chris Pirillo’s teeth impacting on the skin. You know those hands. The hands of the zillions of Windows developers, Windows advertisers, Sponsors, etc that have been feeding Lockergnome and Gnomedex all these years.
Yo! NASA! Check out the crater this reinforced copper man/machine hybrid created and it didn’t cost 330 million bux either.
I’m going to avoid the debate; head over to the comments section of Scoble and his entry which is here.
Chris, of course, responded here.
I will point out that if you do some wayback checking you will find young Chris using the words, cool, awesome, outstanding, and excellent when associated with various windows applications. And more then once. Ahh well, we live in interesting times.
You might want to take a peek at what the folks at Download Squad are doing for a set of opinions that might differ from Chris.
But let us do what we in our capitalist way always do when the cool kids aren’t picking us for their team; bring better stuff to the locker rooms!
Let’s also make a point about who exactly defines “Ugly”, “Boring” and “Uninspired”.
So the official UBU (pronounced UBooo) Awards are hereby announced.
And the prizes? Keeping reading, you’ll be amazed, but first all the details.
The UBU Categories
Beauty -n– the Beast Award
This is the award for the coolest Windows application’s UI that everybody around you thinks is ugly. It’s the application you love. You gaze at the sheer beauty of the interface in a dream-like state while others around you are filling up barf bags.
ZZZZZZZZ Award
This is the award for the smartest phreakin Windows application around. Sheer, pulsating, brain power with cpu crunching actions that make this application as hot as the president of the chess club was in high school. (Yeah, I was, so what of it?).
Rocky Balboa Award
This award is for the Windows application that drives you to greatness. The Tony Robbins of programming excellence, you find yourself suiting up for that next Mount Everest exhibition while your friends mutter “WTF” over and over again.
Rules
The rules are simple.
From now until August 31st, you can nominate any WINDOWS software package in any or all of the three categories. They must be Windows applications and they must be available to the general public, either beta/preview/free trial/sharware/etc. Yeah, windows apps, whoda thunk it.
To nominate your favorite applications simply send an email with the subject line: NOMINATION to ubu.pirillo@gmail.com
Then share, forward, and otherwise link the hell out of this post making sure the UBU Awards are mentioned all over your post, comments, rants, riffs, and emails.
What we will be doing is making a serious point about getting attention since you can be sure there isn’t a mainstream press guy/gal alive (or dead) that will touch this.
What we are aiming for is nothing less that totally domination of anything and everything that is ranking stuff to be going “Huh? UBU Awards?”
On Sept 9th, a panel of Ugly, Boring and Uninspired people will sift through, compile and announce the finalists with a location for you, the UBU public, to cast your votes.
The Award Ceremony? That will be taking place, where else, but GNOMDEX 6.0! (or Pirillo’s house whichever works out)
The Prizes
Each of our lucky award winners will be receiving a prize package that just pales in comparison to anything seen before.
For UBU Award winners there has to be three excellent prizes covering all aspects of our awards:
– A picture of Chris Pirillo, naked, tastefully mounted on dart boards, compliments of the NW Photoshop Users Association .
– The COMPLETE Chris Pirillo podcasting series tastefully preserved on a CompactFlash Card in WMA format with DRM suitably employed.
– A CD packed with Chris Pirillo sayings from days gone by, like, “oh man, you have to download this” suitable for printing and mounting around the office.
Plus everyone who nominates a software company will be put in a drawing for these fabulous prizes:
– An i-mate SP3i cell phone complete with carrying case (and the charger if I can find it). It’s bad, black, and unlocked. Tri-band goodness in every SMS Message.
– A SanDisk ImageMate that’s been FULLY tested to comply with all FCC regulations. Yeah, that’s right, Patriot act ready multi-media, uh huh.
– A never been worn (or washed) Reboot7 Official T-Shirt. You couldn’t go but now you can wear the T-Shirt and fake it!
– A 5 plug adaptor used by none other than Doc Searls himself at Reboot7. In case Doc actually wants this back, you get 3 bucks instead.
And the grand prize?
The Serious Magic Visual Communicator Studio. Forget Podcasting, that’s yesterday’s salad. With Serious Magic, now you can green screen yourself anywhere in the world and create professional videos ready for streaming, DVDs, and stag parties.
This package comes complete with the green screen materials, clip on microphone and all the software you will need to be the first to VLog your own UBU awards show, live, from the chess club meeting.
Okay, so let’s get cracking on those nominations. ubu.pirillo@gmail.com is waiting.
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are you seriously that lame to get in the middle of it?
Posted by: ubu | July 06, 2005 at 04:48
dear sir/madam,
am isaac acquah from Ghana and want to join.i wish am welcome.this is a very good activity to keeps as know different things altogther.thanks
Posted by: isaac acquah | May 03, 2006 at 12:59
Brilliant... Hehe.
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