There was also Fuck This Jam - a game jam where you had to code a project in a genre you hated. Amazing things happened.

http://itch.io/jam/fuck-this-jam

One of my particular favourites: http://johnarr.itch.io/likeclockwork

I guess that's the reason for the title "The Only Honest Hackathon"

The fb like button came from a hackathon and now is without doubt the backbone of our society.

Sounds like it would be right at home at the Stupid Hackathon then, hyuck hyuck

I get the feeling Poe's Law is striking again... But seriously?

I have doubts.

Backbone? More like scourge.

The conclusion of the article:

When all is said and done, and a few dozen more presentations are finished, nothing will really be different. The world will mostly be the same. In that way, the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon shares the same fate as nearly every other hackathon it lambasts.