Slideshow: Pageantry, Glitz Grace Webbys

Polyester, who runs polyester69.com, chats with Wired News reporter Katie Dean.

The theme for the 2001 Webbys is "Gutsy" and these two fans felt that there are few things "gutsier than WebVan."

, hosted the Webby Awards for the second year in a row.

Failed online textbook site, bigwords.com, has been revived. Though his bright orange jumpsuit is a bit faded, Jeff Sherwood hopes to make the new site -- which doesn't actually sell books anymore, but helps you find a great price for them on the Web -- a success.

The dot-com slump hasn't stopped the pageantry at the Webby Awards.

Ryan Honey, who won the Broadband award for his site, Heavy, shows off his Webby award at the post-party.

Douglas Engelbart's daughters accepted the Lifetime Achievement Webby award for their father.

Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson, AKA "La Paulina," introduced the "Weird" category by singing a love song in a "half-invented, half-Slavic" language, she said. Here she is modeling her pink hair with a fan.

"The lovely Sam Donaldson," as emcee Alan Cumming referred to him, hosted the Webby Awards webcast this year. The seasoned newsman was also subject of Webby Sports winner Swell's acceptance speech. The winners quipped, "Sam Donaldson. Dude, gnarly toupee."

Parodying the popular AmIHotOrNot website, a partygoer labels herself a 9.9.