Entry of the Month
Created | Updated Mar 4, 2009
First, a big thank you to everyone voting in last month's competition. It was a great turnout.
Last month I mentioned the Stretcher competition in the h2g2 Post. Many of the excellent entries that this has spawned have now been published on the h2g2 Front Page, and you'll find a few of them featured in my shortlist below (Don't forget that you can vote for any valid entry - not just those on the shortlist).
One other feature of the Edited Guide Entries this month has been a number of excellent multi-part entries. If you feel up to writing a more in-depth series of entries, then you can find out how to do it at A540299 - What is an h2g2 University Project?. It may seem daunting writing all those entries but we make it easy for you - you get assigned your own personal slave to do the sub-editing, for one thing. When it's all done and dusted, you'll get a h2g2 Front Page spot to yourself and you'll also receive a Field Researcher badge for your Personal Space. Now that sounds like a good deal, doesn't it?
The Winners
As is customary, we have a new winner to announce:
Entry of the Month, January 2009 is An Introduction to the Fracture Mechanics of Spaghetti.
This entry, written by Pinniped and sub-edited by The h2g2 Editors explains why spaghetti breaks into the number of pieces it does. It's one of those entries you won't find anywhere else on the web (until Wikipedia copies it).
Congratulations to everyone involved!
February Competition
These are a few which caught my eye this month, and which hopefully illustrate the variety of entries in this month's competition. It's not the full list, of course - there are a total of 42 entries which you can vote for, and the last item in this list links to the Front Page Archive, where you will find all the others. As always, please look through the entries and cast a vote for your favourite. Not only that, but please ask your h2g2 friends to take part, too.
Icy's Suggestions
Coastal Redwoods - Loftier than the Statue of Liberty, these are the world's tallest living things.
Shell Shock - Somehow, calling it 'post-traumatic stress disorder' doesn't have the same impact.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Heroes in a Half-shell - Cowabunga!
The Gladiators of Rome - A fascinating and comprehensive account of these remarkable fighters.
The India-Pakistan Conflict Part 1: Origins - An in-depth history of this ongoing conflict.
Light Pollution - When did you last see the Milky Way?
Who Shelled the Nut? - A woodland whodunnit.
And Many More .... from the Front Page Archive for February 2009.
Can I Vote?
Of course you can! Entry of The Month is all about popular opinion. So whether you're an old-hand in Peer Review or you just signed up yesterday, you are more than welcome to post your vote to the forum below.
IMPORTANT: Please post only once to the voting forum. Votes can then be quickly counted without having to double-check. Please do not try to vote anywhere else. Voting for your own Entry is politely discouraged. This system is reliant on your goodwill and honesty.
But I don't like any of your suggestions!
That's fine. My list is just a few which caught my eye. If you've seen something you prefer, please vote for that Entry instead. It would help if you could include an A-Number by way of a link.
All an Entry needs to qualify is to have been put on the Front Page for the first time in the last month. Please check the date on the Entry you are nominating. It happens that old Entries are sometimes put back on the Front Page for a 'second spell' – you can identify these on the Front Page Archive as they have a little ® beside them. The Entry Of The Month must be first published in the month in question.
The competition will be closed at a judicious point towards the end of the calendar month in which the competition is published according to the following Post deadline, when voting activity has been quiet for a period of time. Either Icy North or the Post Team will announce closure by posting to the voting thread. The votes will be tallied and any ties will be resolved by the Post Team. The Post Team's decision on any matter relating to the competition will be final.
