While it’s not exactly what you’re asking for, check out Zoninator. It does everything you’re asking except that it doesn’t use categories. I’m guessing you just wanted to use categories to target a featured area of the site, and if so, this does that extremely well. It even has a widget for listing the posts, so no code is required.
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