As you've probably noticed, we do a lot of book reviews here at Slashdot. But what book do you think deserves the Beanie award? A book on programming? Social Commentary? O'Reilly and Associates? *grin* You can nominate your favorite book - and check out our book reviews for help if you need it.

Do you disagree with our categories? Think that some deserving soul is being passed over? Or you think that you deserve $2,000? Well, this is the catch-all bin of the awards - so head over to the nomination booth and let your voice be heard.

Hey! We're Unix junkies, right? That whole mouse thing is just a fad anyway. The CLI is more efficient for a lot of things... and a good ncurses app is gonna run a heckuva lot faster than, say, Netscape. So this is your chance to nominate the non-graphical application you love most. The one with the interface that you wouldn't trade in for all the bloated graphics and icons in the world.

So for kicks we've decided to create a few categories just for fun. The prizes are less serious: A Beanie and a hug from our own CowboyNeal. We've got several categories that you can Nominate in. This first batch is related to Slashdot:

• Favorite Slashdot Comment Poster
• Favorite Slashdot Author
• Favorite Slashdot Story of 1999
• The Hemos Award (Only Hemos is Eligible)

Here's the categories for the other half of the 'Why the hell Not' awards...

• Best Dressed
• Big Dumb Patent Bully
• Big Dumb Domain Name Bully
• The Cluestick Award for FUD in Journalism