An Invitation: Go Forth and Geek up Time’s ‘Most Influential People of 2010’ Poll
Apr 4th, 2010, 12:57 pm
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When someone puts a general poll on the internet, we get Lara Croft Way and Computer Engineer Barbie; in other words, wonderful things happen.
In this spirit, we’d like to give you some links to the more than 2 dozen geeky and geek beloved people on this year’s list of 200 vying for a spot in an issue of Time through open internet poll. If it’s going to be mostly unscientific anyway, let’s tilt it in our favor!
- Jeff Bridges – Actor, Iron Man, The Big Lebowski
- James Cameron – Director, Aliens, Terminator, Avatar
- Conan O’Brien – Former Late Night Host, Unemployed Twitter Trendsetter
- Neil Patrick Harris – Actor, Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, Riddler look-alike
- The Penny Arcade Guys – Wecomics creators, gamers extraordinaire
- Jon Stewart – Fake News Anchor
- The ‘Lost’ Creators – Television producers
- Stephen Colbert – Fake Right Wing Pundit
- Dennis Crowley – Co-founder of Foursquare
- Peter Molyneux – Game designer and big ideas guy
- Neil Gaiman – Writer, American Gods, Sandman, Coraline
- Banksy – Guerrilla street artist
- Marissa Mayer – Google vice president of search products and user experience
- Pete Cashmore – Founder of Mashable.com
- Emma Watson – Actress, The Harry Potter movies
- Tim White – He’s a paleontologist!
- Tim Westergren – Founder, Music Genome Project, Pandora
- Rachel Maddow – Real News Anchor, This Week in Geek
- Ricky Gervais – Comedian, Actor, Original Steve Carell
- Bill and Melinda Gates – Philanthropists
- Steve Jobs – CEO of Apple
- Andy Samberg – Comedian, viral video aficionado
- Ben Stiller – Actor, Zoolander, Mystery Men, James Cameron Fan
- J. J. Abrams – Director, Lost, Star Trek
- Neill Blomkamp – Director, District 9
- Diane Nelson – President of DC Entertainment
- Zoe Saldana – Actress, Avatar, Pirates of the Carribbean, Star Trek
- Quentin Tarantino – Director, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill
- Elon Musk – Founder of PayPal
Rankings are determined not just by the person’s average score, but also by the number of people who voted for them. I trust in your power, The Internet. Let everyone know that the geek shall inherit the earth!
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