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Recent Proposals

• Green Generator Challenge Portable electricity generator powered by readily-available fuel(s) that runs as clean as a car.
• Random Occurrence of Recognizable Images How long does it take for a computer to randomly create a recognizable image?
• Prove Goldbach's "Weak" Conjecture Can every odd number greater than 7 can be expressed as the sum of three odd primes?

New Prizes

• The Methuselah Mouse Prize $100 Who Will Find the Secrets of Rejuvenation?
• Greywater Recycling Challenge $260 Provide the incentive for communities to become greywater friendly.
• JREF Paranormal Challenge $100 Provide evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event.
• Automotive X Prize $100 Design, build, and sell super-efficient cars that people want to buy.
• Fix Ordered / Unordered Lists in TinyMCE $515 Modifying lists in TinyMCE should not produce unpredictable results
• The Babel Prize $100 A web-based application that can teach eight or more languages to its visitors and be free to anyone under the age of sixteen.
• The Torvalds-Simpsons Prize $105 The Torvalds-Simpsons Prize is the Open-Source community's attempt at getting Linus Tovald a cameo appearance on the Simpsons.
• Scientology Copyright-Abuse Prize $155 A prize for any class-action lawsuit against Scientology for violations of 1st Amendment Rights and abuse of Copyright Law.

Claimed Prizes

notMac Challenge $8,622 Create a free, open source alternative to the .Mac Services