The web site will never win any prizes for its design, not even an Ig. It is a simple, ugly, plain vanilla, information packed site that make up for its deficiencies with some of the best humor on earth. Only Harvard could get away with such outlandish material. The web site however, is merely the media allowing you to share the awards and the ceremony as the site adds little value of its own.

Sixty minutes of the award ceremony highlights are available as streaming audio. You will hear the antics and come to realize that the prizes awarded to the winners are but a pittance as compared to the value received by anyone visiting the web site and listening to the ceremonies. It is top-notch entertainment.

Be sure and hear the remarks by Don Featherstone, inventor of the pink plastic lawn flamingo or listen to an entire real wedding ceremony completed in only 60-seconds. The awards themselves however, are the main event. The prize for Medicine comes about from an impactful paper "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts." The award in Physics lays bare the question of “…why shower curtains billow inwards”.

The Technology award gives full recognition to a man who received a patent for inventing the wheel in 2001 from the Australian Patent Office. The Peace prize goes to the creator of an amusement park in Lithuania known as “Stalin World”. An Englishman, founder of the Apostrophe Protection society received the Literature award for his efforts “…to protect, promote, and defend the differences between plural and possessive”.

You may ask if the award recipients actually did the things for which they received a prize. The Ig Noble Awards are quite emphatic about that point. They claim only in 1991, the first year, were there awards for apocryphal achievements. All other awards were for genuine, er “achievements”.

Take a look and see if a smile or two won’t help make your day. Maybe you can submit your own achievement for consideration in next years Ig Nobel prizes.