You've got to be kidding me...

There should be a warning next to that link, I would have rather not seen that... *pokes out eyes with stick*

MA's was definately the best. Pennsyvana's was hideous to though.

Louisiana's was distinctly unoriginal, but it was obvious they spent quite a bit of time on it.

Yeah, I tried to make one like that, but that one is much better.

*pukes* I'm disgusted that is most effortless piece of crap i've ever seen

I know, I would at least have a little more sympathy for the winner, but it was built on an existing background, and the text wasn't even written well!!! It's messy, hard to read, and looks like a 20-second job (if not less).

...and ten of those seconds were spent opening Paint, saving, and then closing.

...given the quality of the tools available.

And we shouldn't mock the winner, either. It's obvious she spent a full five minutes of her time working on that entry.

I actually had an idea of writing a program that would take an arbitrary bitmap and send all the proper mouse clicks / color selections over to the flash stuff so you could render any image you want (it could use the opacity settings to mix any color you wanted, perhaps)

Now THAT would have been fun.

Your subtle humor and strong grasp of sarcasm delight me as usual.

That was a delightful little quip, wasn't it?

A five minute job nets $1000....

What a great return on her investment...
(if I could do that all the time, paying for college would be a piece of cake.....)

Heck, if we could all do that, everyone would be multi-billionaires.

And a lollypop would cost $10,000.

Like Hungary in WWII: something on the order of six billion percent inflation.

I'm not being facetious.

Nobody really cares, though.

Yeah, they used paper bills for wallpaper.

TI probably has just done exactly the opposite of what that contest was supposed to do (advertise and make TI more popular). How did that person win with such a horrible design (obviously everyone else is thinking that too)?

At least they're not judging the essay contest that way, so we still have hope.

they ovously found some way to get a designe that was remotely thiers and somehow cheated the system to get it alot of votes

It's really easy.
TI used a cookie (a little tidbit of information kept by the browser, for those who don't know) with the date when you vote. If you try to vote again, it reads the cookie and checks the date. For most things, this is fine, but for a contest this is stupid.
All it takes is a HTTP request with the right POST data to the CGI script responsible for tallying votes and you can vote as many times as you want. Hell, you can just disable cookies and vote to your heart's content!
This whole thing is a lame joke.

another thing is the cookies are stored on YOUR HD which is a place that you have limitless access to so it is a poor place to use.

I'm guessing that if that happened, that one got picked because it was "pro-school" crap, with the "Math Rox"...