12 January 1998
I visited the awards page at Archaeology
in Luxembourg and was amazed at the number of meaningless awards they
had displayed. Granted, some of their awards, like The
Education Index Top Site, Dr.
Matrix Award for Science Excellence, and Web
Site Excellence - Anthropology look and sound like good, meaningful awards.
Then there are the rest:
I respect Archaeology in Luxembourg's work and am sure their web site deserves
some recognition, but I wish they'd reserve their prominent displays for
awards that mean something.
Now, on to my Award-Winning Website.
Congratulations! Your site has been chosen to win the Meaningless Award of
the Day courtesy of Me! Just display this garish image prominently on your
homepage and link to us, and you'll have the honor of knowing that you're
among an elite group of people who crave recognition for what could quite
possibly be mediocre work.
LinkMonster is a web guide that requires you to submit your URL, then
chooses what they perceive are the best from their daily submissions.
This site appears to be a personal site, so by receiving their award all
they're telling you is that they like your web page.
Apparently this award is given to pages that spread information about
the Classical world. Very competitive, obviously.
One of a myriad of sites that give a web page stars for seemingly no
reason, except this one is in Australia.
WebWalkers is a web design business, why they are giving awards I do not
know.
Just an award to let you know that Mike and Sharyi Hanson liked your site.
This award is given to anyone who wants it, with the following stipulations:
You must not have any pornography on your page. You must not be engaged
in any form of illegal or unethical activity such as cracks, hacks,
phreaks, and illegal distribution of commercial software and
copyrighted materials.
Then there's the Orchid Award, for the pages Linda likes.
You get the idea.