Here it is, the html rendering of the best hack ballot. Yoot hacks are marked in blue.

See the press release below.

BEST HACK CONTEST RESULTS FROM MACHACK '99
The MacHax(tm) Group announces the results from the
Thirteenth Annual Best Hack Contest at MacHack '99.

In its fourteenth year, MacHack convened one minute after midnight on June
24 for another solid 72 hours of sleep deprivation, hacking, networking,
and other worthy (and highly caffeinated) endeavors. The conference opened at
midnight with a keynote from Andy Ihnatko, the self proclaimed
"America's 42nd most-beloved industry personality" (our thanks to
Andy for providing that oft-copied-and-pasted piece of text). Hacking
was observed during his highly entertaining, inspirational, and
wide-ranging journey into the mind of a strangely-creative and
twisted individual. Hacking continued unabated until well past
midnight two nights later.

MacHack attendees show their interesting, unusual, unexpected, and
often entertaining software at the Hack Show. This year's Hack Show
began at midnight and lasted until 4:30 AM.

After each show, the contest sponsors (that would be us crazy folks
at The MacHax Group) stay up the rest of the night to put together a
ballot so conference attendees can vote for their favorite hacks just
a few hours later at lunch. This year's ballot listed 52 hacks. As
we put together the ballot, we enjoyed the all-night company of
MindVision as they prepared and duplicated the conference CD so
conference attendees could go home with a CD full of hacks, papers,
and other conference memorabilia.

After tabulating the votes and making a quick trip to Duke's Hardware
(the official hardware store of the Best Hack Contest) for prizes,
The MacHax Group hands out awards at the Hack Awards.

A number of hacks drew special mention (meaning we found some good
junk at Duke's that seemed to be somewhat related), including
Sound-In_Sane, P1 Preview, Blue Box Spy, Altered States, Live Fast
Start Server for QuickTime 3, YRTP, Play Net Poker And Waste Time,
and Prose Posse. See the end of this announcement for a link to the
Best Hack Contest Ballot.

Each year we enjoy the hacking participation of "yoots", and this
year was no exception as we witnessed the record-breaking entry of a
seven year old, the youngest hacker ever to submit a hack.

Now to the awards...

Fifth place went to "PatchMaker" by Paul Baxter. PatchMaker generates
source code for point-and-click trap patching (that's the magic stuff
that hacks are made of).

In fourth place, MacJive translates all text drawn to the screen into
jive. Authors Ned Holbrook and Jorg Brown took home a delectable 12
pound frozen Butterball turkey (admittedly not from Duke's). Rumors
that the turkey went cross-country via UPS Ground to the contest
sponsors are not entirely true.

Ed Wynne wowed the crowd with Desktop Doubler, a hack to double your
desktop by adding a "real" virtual monitor. Duke's had just the
prize for Ed's fine hack - a package of "Screen Patches".

"Out of Context Menus" by Eric Traut took second place. If contextual
menus are such a good idea, someone had to find out what would happen
with out-of-context menus, and Eric was just the one to find out.
His hack added some familiar yet rather unusual Photoshop-like items
to Finder contextual menus. You haven't used the Finder until you've
used a Gaussian-blurred Finder window.

The moniker of "Best Hack" and the coveted Victor A-Trap trophy went to
"Unfinder", the hands-down favorite hack. As Lisa Lippincott quietly
deadpanned her presentation, she "accidentally" dropped a bunch of
things she was dragging into one of a long list of folders. As we
all know, that's a sure way to spend a while trying to figure out
where things went. Mere seconds later, however, the crowd jumped to
its feet and gave Lisa a sustained standing ovation. Why? With
Unfinder, she simply selected the Finder's now-enabled Undo menu item
and all the files reappeared in their former location. As Lisa said,
Unfinder brings the Macintosh "up to 1984 standards".

Some of the previous winners include NetBunny, RearWindow, VideoBeep,
ColorFinder, IRMan, Oscar the Grouch, BillBoot, Practical Joke
Protocol, Fez, and AsciiMac. Several of these have gone on to become
products, system software, features in products, or the targets of
threats and intimidation from uninformed universities and aggressive
corporations.

Many of the hacks will be on the MacHack '99 conference CD. Please
be forewarned - hacks are generally not "production quality"
software; use them at your own risk. For more information on the CD
and the MacHack conference, please visit http://www.machack.com. To
see this year's ballot, drop by http://www.hax.com/HackContest.

The MacHax Group has been a purveyor of high technology products and
productions since 1985.

Macintosh, Mac, QuickTime, and Apple are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.
MacHax is a trademark of The MacHax Group. MacHack is a trademark of
Expotech, Inc. The MacHax Group is not affiliated with Expotech (MacHack
conference organizers), and somehow we've been having fun together for years.
Other trademarks belong to those who own them, including, most likely,
Pong, Windows 95, Duke's Hardware, and Victor.