An Invitation: Go Forth and Geek up Time’s ‘Most Influential People of 2010’ Poll

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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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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